How can I be explosive?

Question

I'm pretty sure it has to do something with speed.

Answer 1

Extend your arm fully until it is about 1 in from a wall. begin punching at at even pace for 3 min make sure you time it and aim for the same spot.. Then take a 1 min break and repeat.. Daily for about a month. good luck.

Answer 2

Explosiveness comes in two forms: physical and spiritual.

In other words, you can take your physical explosivness, and training, to a certain level, but there is a ceiling there that you cannot overcome by physical alone. That is because the physical body alone has limitations.

In other words, to be truly explosive, your physical body must surrender its limits, and the only way to do so is to allow the potential energy within to be released. Thus, a punch that would normally break through 1 or 2 bricks can thus break through 10 or more. Such a concentration of energy cannot be done through physical punching exercises alone, for it is not the arm that punches or the fist that lands, but the spirit that flows from the center of the body, along the arm and out of the fist that strikes such a blow.

Practice your punches, work on your speed, improve your timing; all these things are necessary as well, but if you do not start to become aware of, then concentrate, your body's energy into making such a blow, your results will be strong, but not as strong as they could be.

Answer 3

Strap dynamite on yourself. :-D
No, just kidding.

Ok, well, like that first person said, force = mass X acelleration. You're a male, so you probably got the mass thing down. Work on your speed and you will get the effect you want.
Practice on a heavy bag; you can see how much power you generate by watching how the bag reacts. Check out Jeri Massi's article at http://www.pipeline.com/~tkd-pix/heavyb.htm. She doesn't explain the nuts-and-bolts issues of the heavy bag, but she *does* tell just how important it is to train on the heavy bag.

Answer 4

Force = Mass x Acceleration.
yes, with more speed and weight, you will have more force. In ITF taekwondo patterns, we try to do each technique as powerful as we can, then relax and do the next technique. This teaches us how to generate a huge amount of power in little time. I think tai chi does this, except in encorporating chi into your strikes.