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This is discussed like every two weeks.
more or less...
This is discussed like every two weeks.
The timeless question.
Why isn't their a sticky about this topic?
triple post, my bad.:redface:
So is everyone for the most part agreeing it is acceptable to keep your shoulders up? Nobodys posted yet to tell me I am wrong, and Im just curious of what the general concensus is about the shoulder thing. If im wrong, Im wrong....thats fine...was just curious if I was ass wrong about the shoulder thing as the instructor was telling me or if one school of thought was being completely dismissed as wrong by someone who was shown differently.
I prefer how I was taught, which was to follow what happens naturally/anatomically (ideally in order to maximize power transfer).
Try this:
Hang your hand at your side, then bring your hand up so your arm is bent at 90 degrees, keeping your elbow fixed at your side...and make a fist.
Look at your fist - your fist should be thumb up, pinky down in relation to the floor.
Now begin slowly raising your elbow out and up until your upper arm is level with your shoulder, and observe what happens to your fist. As your elbow goes up, your fist steadily turns until when your elbow is even with your shoulder, your palm is now facing straight down.
Thats more or less telling you what is the correct form to throw your hooks anatomically and with max power.
Basically, the angle of your fist changes depending on whether you are throwing to the body or the head in order to maximize power.
If you are throwing more as a deceptive hook (i.e. where you need distance and not power) then you can get more range by turning the fist /palm in/ to the head...but its a sloppier hook with less power since you will extending it beyond its ideal range (you are extending the elbow past 90 degrees, and relying more on your bicep for stabilization/power transfer instead of bone/ligament).
Thus, I only throw a hook like that to setup something else, i.e. a low kick to the leg.
i thought it was all preference. In any case, bare knuckles to a skull isnt a good idea.
incorrect... exact opposite. Also, you don't use your bicep at all when throwing a hook, you use the twisting motion of your torso to gain power and speed the hand just goes for a ride. Which is also why you pivot your feet.
i do exactly the opposite to that picture.
my left hook is my money punch,i could not get power punching like that but im speaking for myself only.
Is this the old horizontal vs vertical fist question again...
It's been done to death.
Horizontal for long, vertical for close.
Also, fall fashion.
WTF? People wipe their asses standing up? How would you even do that? My asscheeks would clench on the stuff I wanted to wipe.
So uhhh, how do you throw a hook now?
I can add it to the "Instructional Threads" Sticky, you know, the thread no one ever looks in when they need an instructional thread or think one should be stickied...stuckied...whatever.