what are good drills to make my kicks and punches faster?

Question

i would like to know i i can make my kicks and punches faster and stronger.can somebody please tell me some good drills and exerciese to quicking my kicks and punches.

thanx!

Answer 1

Punching and kicking speed are a combination of a few things:

1. Muscle flexibility - on joints such as knees and elbows it is almost impossible to increase muscle flexibility as it is difficult to stretch the muscles.

2. Strength of fast-twitch muscles - these muscles are worked by doing explosive reps. For punching and kicking you will want to focus on jumping squats and clapping pushups. These will not add much muscle mass and thereby decrease flexibility but will create small, powerful, explosive muscles.

3. Muscle memory - This is the connections in the brain between synapses and muscles. The only way to work this is... practice, practice, practice. This will increase your reaction time and speed.

WARNING: do not train with weights on your legs for kicking or weights on your wrists/hands for doing backfists as you have a largely increased likelyhood of damaging tendons which are very important and slow to repair (unless your totally tear them, then they won't repair at all).

Answer 2

I remember years ago people used to practice with lead weapons in order to improve their sword speed. It sort of worked, because naturally if you are stronger you can move somewhat faster. However it became clear that people practicing with LIGHTER swords got faster too -- a lot faster.

An herein lies both sides of the coin for speed training. Strength training will improve your speed by increasing your muscles' response to neural stimulus, but it will only take you so far. The best training is specific, so the best training for punching quickly is to practice punching quickly, which is not as simple as it sounds. You might decide to do 1000 punches every morning, but by the time you get to 20, chances are you're slacking off because of the little voice in the back of your head telling you you're only 2% done. Then you do worse than waste your time on the remaining 980; you actually train yourself to punch slow. Better to do only 20, then rest.

Other things that slow you down are extraneous or incorrect motions. The reasons for this are: lax instruction, poor flexibility, weakness in small stabilizing muscles. So general fitness and basic training are key, as is having good coaching. Speaking of this, forms are an often overlooked means of developing speed, but you need some really tough coaching to make you go faster; ideally you have somebody else at about your level who is training for the same goal so you can push each other. If you don't believe forms have any use in speed training, search for videos of "beijing wushu team chang quan". Compare this to how most people do their forms or kata, and you see that the reason forms don't work for training is people don't put enough work into them.

Finally if you are speaking of combat speed, you have to spar to develop quick reaction times and swift, practical application. Specificity applies here as well. You won't get faster sparring with slow people, you must seek out the fastest opponents you can find, ideally somebody extremely fast but also decent enough not to beat you into a bloody pulp when you are seeking to learn.

Answer 3

Fast Punches

Answer 4

I say to concentrate and allot of experience. Your subconscious can take over like a machine and do the work.
For instance I played a softball catcher. Some guy hits a ball and it would go over my right shoulder. My glove suddenly shot across my front than caught it. Realizing I have fast reflex. I was so surprise.

Answer 5

Weighted gloves, ankle weights but train carefully with them. As already mentioned you can damage the tendons while using them. Also one of these can help - http://store.titleboxing.com/titleboxing-pro-shadow-boxer.html
It can be substituted by using a bicycle inner tube.

Answer 6

there are tons of things you can do we own a karate school check us out at www.fmackarate.com but the best thing is to use weighted gloves and sumthin that wraps around your ankle thats weighted but a good site for all kinds of drills is http://www.4kicks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=1 i usually chek dis site out if ineed ideas for a class that im guna teach

Answer 7

Go purchase wrist and ankle weights and wear them until you get sick of them.

start doing exercises like leg curls and shoulder workouts. start practicing in a swimming pool

Answer 8

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Answer 9

put weights on them and hit the bag.