ways of building a faster jab?

Question

i have a punching bag but i wanted to know if there where any other methods apart from punching it alot

Answer 1

Repetitions, and of course training with a speed bag.

Added notes- Some other things that will improve your jab are- Resistance training- You can do this with the bands or underwater in the swimming pool.

And recoil- This one I actually learned in a boxing gym. Each time your throw a jab, try to bring it back to your guarded position twice as fast as you sent it out. That might not be possible but the speed of the jab is created by this recoil snap.

Answer 2

The late great Bruce Lee was noted for his hand speed, and most accounts by people who sparred with him told of how they couldn't see his jabs coming. I think I read somewhere in a Dan Inosanto interview where he said the secret to this was due to mental preparation and footwork. The mental preparation involved anticipating your opponent's movement and intercepting it instead of merely countering his attack. This supposedly was the basis for the name Jeet Kune Do(Way of the Intercepting Fist). Anyway, the idea was to train yourself to observe your opponent's movements and to snap a jab the moment he sets up to make a move, any move. If he makes a step forward, Bam! If he tries to sidestep, Bam!If he shifts his weight, Bam! Basically, anytime he focuses his mind on something else, you tag him, doesn't matter if your jab is strong or not, it throws him off. And the way to do this was to stand on the balls of your feet and skip forward the same way fencers do and basically use your hips to push your jab forward extending and stiffening your arm only at the last minute. It takes a lot of practice and strong knees to be able to do this without telegraphing your movement, but I used to be able to do this when I was training in JKD back in high school and actually broke a couple of noses this way during sparring. But I've grown a bit rusty nowadays and my knees aren't what they used to be, so I'm not sure if I can bloody any more noses though. Try practicing shuffling forward before throwing your jab on the bag until it becomes one smooth movement. If you can master this, it would appear to your opponent that you have a lighting fast jab, when the truth was that you merely threw one before he could think.

Answer 3

This might not make any sense but... make sure you have good footing(stance/foundation etc) and a slight twist from the hips. Its obvious your hitting hard and fast since you have a bag. What i trained and helped me was to,
1, slow down ,relax ,extend your arm to where it would be if it was connecting with a target ,now get to feel what muscles are tensed up at that point(legs and arm).
2, hang a cloth or light rope in front of you and just start striking/jabbing it lightly,slowly to start off with them start increasing speed and power.
3, learn to lock your footing at that instance just before contact, and them release the footing on the recoil getting ready for the next manoeuvre/combinations.

Answer 4

Doing push-ups with a clap in between is good for improving fast-twitch muscle fibres. Also, practice doing double and triple jabs with the one hand as fast as you can, rather than just one at a time. This teaches you to not only shoot the jab out quickly, but to pull it back quickly and re-load for the next punch.

Answer 5

all punches should end in a snap this would increase the speed of the attack and power. never tighten your fist untill the final moment of impact