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Some great stuff here. I fucking love this forum!
I feel like i am too slow to deliver the cross in a firefight. I am a good in fighter. When i am close to the other guy, i can hit with either hand.
But on the outside i only uses jabs and long lead hook. I like to fake punches to get my kicks in.
Maybe i just need to let it fly. Like Bernard is talking about in the beginning of this video.
Some great stuff here. I fucking love this forum!
I feel like i am too slow to deliver the cross in a firefight. I am a good in fighter. When i am close to the other guy, i can hit with either hand.
But on the outside i only uses jabs and long lead hook. I like to fake punches to get my kicks in.
Maybe i just need to let it fly. Like Bernard is talking about in the beginning of this video.
good post about generating force on the right hand. i really like your thoughts on the technique. bruce lee had similar thoughts.I remember from watching your bag work video, you mainly operate from and leave your weight on your front foot, which allows you to use your front arm okay for hooks but not your entire rear side arm.
There's not a whole lot you can do unless you plant that back leg down and sit on it. You need to have your weight being supported sturdily by your right leg and drive off it for your right hand to have any good effect. Dont drive UP like people want to, drive forward and slightly down (sink) being powered 100% with your leg. Practice it slowly. Do it a lot.
Really bend that knee (Edit- bend and strengthen HIP, also knee) to get it used to supporting weight and transferring it smoothly and powerfully without jerking and sliding or pushing yourself UP instead of forward and slightly down (slightly down is to keep it from going up, which it will want to do but that nullifies/dissolves the power)
Most of the problem is in your leg. Keep it under you and not out to the back like a tail. You can still walk or step with little steps. Practice punching that way.
Your punches are decent just dont lean back with your torso when you throw them (robs the power AND reach), lean slightly forward at the waist with a reasonably straight back. Your punches should come out fine.
To make them faster, Relax the arms and concentrate on making them fly out (speed) and then experiment with letting them loose at different times during the drive from the leg/ twist from the torso. Hint: You dont have to feel like you're waiting for your leg to move your arm, you should try moving your arm slightly before that (just try it) but dont forget some rotation on the fist (that will help it naturally snap out with no effort)
Keep practicing until it feels more and more effortless. Stop! when you've made a good tiny bit of progress (this is important). Feel good about it and think about it as you go home. Write down anything you learned and didnt know before is a great idea, even if it's just a new feeling, sensation, or mindset that seems to make you perform better with less effort. Then pick up where you left off the day before and try to get 1 or 2% better (more efficient and easier while getting more effect). This is counter-intuitive but it is key. Most people will never do this and most people suck. Most people try to "grind" and pile on the effort and that may work okay for weightlifting but it works the opposite way for technique.
landing right hands on the outside is all about foot positioning. i can only relate from my own problems, but i never used to be able to land rights unless it was a counter. i highly recommend studying marciano, he would parry the jab and take a short step forward and to the right, putting himself in the perfect position to land a hard right. ever since i learnt how to do this, the power on my right has gone throught the roof. i could always throw a hard right on the bag, but not in sparring unless they ran into it.
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