how do you get heavy handed?''?

Answer 1

You're born with it.

You either got it or you don't.

Answer 2

Malcolm ~
I would assume that you mean hit hard, since whenever you hear the term used in boxing that's what they are referring to.The best way to develop a hard punch is to hit the heavy-bag, make sure you pivot on your back foot turning your body as if were on a hinge into your target. Balance is often key to a hard punch make sure you are on balance, nothing worse than throwing a punch when you're off balance. You can also develop by hitting a wall pad, the ones that I used are made by TAO its about six inches thick and mounted to a wall about head height, it's a great workout. Good luck Malcolm........................Mr Cochino (Nasty?) I agree with everything you wrote except the size of the guys/girls hands has anything to do with punching power Jake "The Raging Bull" often complained about the size of his hands but had a pretty good knockout record. Terry Norris had extremely small hands but his knockout record speaks for itself a finally Salvador Sanchez hands were so tiny when I shook them my hand engulfed his but when I sparred with him he rang my bell like no other. Ed "Too Tall" Jones, huge hands, he even had to have gloves made for him because his hands were so big the few times he fought he couldn't break an egg. It's just my opinion and I appreciate yours. Great answer for a great question.

Answer 3

Malcolm
2 of the answers youve got so far both have elements of truth to them. However I believe that the ability to deliver that devestating single punch or 2-3 punch combination which puts your opponent to sleep is based in a very simple principle and that is:
" Create the greatest possible potential energy in the punch and then deliver the greatest possible actual energy to the right place at the right time".
You knock a man out by making his brain knock hard against the inside of the skull. The harder it hits the greater the chance of a knock out. Pure and simple.
This potential and actual energy is developed and delivered by great technique as described by Santana. You dont punch with your hands, you punch with your shoulders and legs. They are the power producers.
Now its the hands job to target the right place on your opponents head. I believe that there are five points on the head where if you hit with optimum power, your opponent will nearly always go, bye bye lights out.
They are just in front and just behind each ear and the point of the jaw. I can already hear you and others saying.....doh... tell us something we dont know. My point is that the ear pressure points and the jaw are effected optimumly by different punches thrown and arriving from different angles
The ear points are much more effected by hooks thrown with a
more horizontal tragectory. While the jaw is much more effectively hit by a punch coming up at angle. It doesnt matter whether the punches come from the left or the right to the receiver. It does matter that the thrower delivers the punch with the maximum energy to the right place at the right angle
Just try to make sure that every punch you produce is thrown with a great back leg pivot, on and through a solid front leg,unleashing the power built up in the shoulder and making contact with the arm still bent and powering through the best contact point at the right angle. Do that and you will increase the number of knock outs
Training and practicing proper techique is the only way to produce these results. You can learn to be heavy handed. Jack Dempsy is a classic example of this. Earliy in his career he sustained a serious injury to his Right arm which meant that he was limited to punching with his left for almost 3 months. Prior to this his left was nothing special. After that training his left developed into the greatest left hook in the history of boxing

Answer 4

You're either born with it or not.

I'm extremely heavy handed for my size (I literally cause a person much heavier to steps back while they hold the bag for me when I hit as hard as I could). Do that make me a great fighter? I don't think so! My trainer often complain that in sparring I hit too lightly 99% of the time. However when I do land one of those hard punch, it literally knock person down or cause them to stumble across the ring.

but I use to do only Muay Thai. In Muay Thai, my hands is almost useless because I perfer to kicks, clinch and knee.

Now I'm also doing boxing and hoping I will be able to get better hands skill.

If your hand isn't heavy, don't worry. You don't need much force to knock person out, what really knock person out is the way how you set everything up. For example if you keep throwing 1 and 2 all way through the fight, you will not caught the person by surprise at all and they will be extremely hard to knock out. However if you throw a couple 1 and 2 then some hook to body often, then on 5th time instead of throw hook to body, hook the head and if they didn't expect it, they will most likely be knocked out cold. In boxing they have a saying "it's not how hard the punch is that knock you out, it's the one that you don't see coming that knock you out" This is very true! I'm very difficult to knock out but it HAVE happened! It's when they caught me by surprise. I remeber first time I got KOed, I didn't even remeber what happened beside throwing 1 and 2 then back away. I later learn that the sparring partner KOed me with a kick as I back away. Also other time I was spar boxing style with a big name female boxer. She throw some decent punches to my face but I didnt even go down until she throw a hook to my body, that's when I finally go down from pain because she caught me by surprise.

So don't worry about how hard you punch, worry more about how you use your hands and set the punch up and you will see your success of knocking someone out go up!

Answer 5

Santana d gave you a good answer but theres more. back in my day when i was boxing. we had a couple of guys who were heavy handed. heavy-handedness comes naturally. i've tried for years and years and never got heavyhanded. good balance, strength, and the power at the entent of the blow are key factors in accentuating the punch. see, some guys can't fight worth a damn but if they ever connect, your out. rocky marciano, sonny liston, mike tyson, george foreman were all heavyhanded. the size and density of their fists makes a difference too. usually it never happens for most boxers. but when those few have it and their trainers develop it further, look out. good luck, i hope you got it.

Answer 6

The power for your punch comes from the ground through you leg, up your back, through your shoulder, down your arm, through your wrist, through your fist and into your opponent. I prefer open hand striking, but that's not allowed in boxing. Getting "heavy handed" is really just knowing how to punch. How to move forward and keep balance, as the power is delivered. Many peoples biggest problem is their footing, or the power traveling through their wrist. You need strong wrists to deliver power with you fist.

Answer 7

You can't learn it,it is a natural ability some are born with.

Answer 8

It is something you are born with.