How to make your kick stronger

The underlying theoretical basis for the application of a strong impact:

1. Speed is not power. Force is acceleration. That is, power is not only speed. You need to have a weight that you will accelerate. A quick strike will not be strong if you don't invest in it part of the weight of your body.

2. Move your body. Remember Bruce Lee's famous theory of "inch kick": moving the entire body weight by one inch (2.54 cm) will have a greater effect than moving one hand by one foot (30 cm). Movement of the whole body during the impact is necessary to obtain maximum force. The difficulty is that you do not need to focus on moving the body weight over a long distance, it is important to move the body at the same time (explosive mode).

3. Use your legs. The largest muscles of the body will give the most energy. Those who strike only using the weight of their hands will never achieve a serious force of impact.

4. Are within its strike range. Even the strongest blow will be lost in vain, if your hands are too much straight, (you not get). Your kick will be stronger if your fist reaches the target just before your hand is fully straightened. Don't stretch!

5. Strike at different angles. Such strikes will be stronger; there will be more opportunities for strikes and the damage from them will be greater.

Energy flow

FEET

Foot have a little wider than shoulder width.
The heel of the rear foot (right a boxer is right-handed) is always slightly raised.
On impact, your feet will rotate (or twist) in the direction of impact.
At drawing a series of blows your feet will rotate (or curl) in this or that party depending on from what hand you beat.
When striking with the right hand the heel of the right leg is lifted while the left foot is fully on the floor. At impact the left arm – all the way around.
When you apply your strongest kick, both feet must be firmly pressed to the floor. (This is a rule we break later, when you learn how to strike with the rotation/twisting).
FEET

Legs slightly bent at the knees.
When striking a little podsazhivaetsya (body weight goes down), bending the knees.
HIPS

Turn the hips in the direction of the enemy, as if you are hitting the thigh.

THE TRUNK OF THE BODY

Your torso should rotate with a maximum amplitude of your kick crashes due to this rotation.
Rotation of the body with a large amplitude and a small "flight" of the beating hand gives a stronger impact than a small rotation of the body with full straightening of the hand.
Do not lean forward, do not try to "get" the opponent – instead rotate the body!
SHOULDERS

Your shoulders should be relaxed, so you will increase the speed and power, but also save energy.
During the strike, lift the shoulders above – it will increase the impact force by working the muscles of the shoulder.
FOREARMS

First blow of the forearm relaxed.
When you throw away your kick, your hands fly in the direction of the opponent and straighten up to touch the body of the enemy.
To make very long strokes (do not try to reach the enemy) otherwise you'll run into counter blow.
Do not pull your fist to yourself before striking. This is called" telegraphy", which allows an experienced fighter to see the blow before its application and reflect it.
HAND

When you don't strike, your brushes are relaxed. You can form a fist, but do not need to compress it.
When you strike, your fist turns into a brick that you deliver to your opponent.
Your glove begins to move away from your face and ends there.
For direct hits, you put your fist in a horizontal plane prior to contact. When applied to lateral blows to the body or head fist can stand upright ("Cup").
HEAD

Hard exhalation on every hit.
Eyes in 100% readiness. When hitting you need to look directly at the target.
The chin is slightly down to hide him behind the shoulder of a beating hand.
Everything I've just described is called a flow of energy. You need to make you feel how the energy goes through your whole body from the feet to the fists. If one part of your body is lazy or you do not feel its participation in the strike, you need to train more, so that this part also became actively involved in the process of striking.

Aiming

Learn the distance of all your punches while standing and then with a quick bodegom forward. Try to keep all of your strikes were INSIDE this range.
Blows too long and too short will not have the maximum power.
The jab (straight left punch)

A quick step forward will make the strike much stronger.
Pull the beating hand and lift your shoulder – so you can really "stick" your jab in the enemy.
When applying Jeb do not lean forward. Leave it for your next hit – the right cross.
Straight right or right cross

Turn the body, turn the body...and rotate the housing.
A PERFECT target for this shot is right in front of you. I'll show you where she is. Do this: stretch your left arm like you're putting Jeb on. Pull out your hand completely and leave it in this position. Now imagine that your opponent dodged to the left of your jab and his face is now about 30 feet from your outstretched left hand. Here is a space 30 inches is the place where your right jab will be the most powerful. Not believe? Try to check on the bag. Become not the center of the bag, and slightly to the right and apply the right direct, maximally rotating the housing counterclockwise. Feel the force of impact? Great!
Left hook (left side)

Causing the left side bangs in a body of the enemy, lower your elbow. If you hit the side of the head, elbow lift.
Learn to stop your side kick. You don't need him flying through the enemy. Work out to stop this blow, at a time when your fist is right in front of you. This will give the most "Bang" from the impact (as from a whip) and will not allow you to "twist" your body.
Well, forget to turn both feet so they looked to the side at the moment of the blow.
When applied to a left side impact drop right heel on the floor and propanamide left to predicate all the energy left leg to his shot.
Right hook

When applied to the right side of the shot move your body weight from the back leg to the front and make a quick movement with his head, drawing her weight into the blow, not taking his eyes away from the beat.
When applying the hook to the right be careful with your head moving to the side, and forward and straight at the opponent. (It's not easy to do, but it will give your strike more power, though sometimes in order to protect you will have to make a significant head forward movement).
Uppercut

Forget what you've seen in the movie "Street fighter".
A real uppercut – kick short and quick. The blow does not go to the top, he really is applied forward.
Imagine that you apply a long right cross. Now make a new cross, but now turn the fist so that your palm is "looked" up. Now throw your right hand right into the opponent's head.
Uppercut, do not necessarily apply strictly bottom-up, it is better to throw the hand from your waist diagonally up. This blow is not vertical, it has horizontal movement.

Strike

It is very important to learn how to beat hard. A hard blow can cause just when you want. We must learn to seize the moment for such a strike. Your distance should be correct not only for the first hit, but also for the next one.

When is the best time to strike a heavy blow:

When the opponent hits himself. Counter-strike always does more damage.
When the opponent does not expect a strike. This can be achieved by breaking through his defense or throwing punches in a ragged rhythm. Fast boxers do this thanks to a very high-speed direct hit with the right or left hook.
At an angle. Strikes at an angle capable of inflicting more damage quickly to stun the opponent or at least not give him to prepare another hard blow.

The most common errors

The rise of the foot with detachment from the floor. The rise of the foot during the strike turns off almost all body weight from the impact.
Attempt to get (stretching). Such a blow will not be strong. Moreover, you become an excellent target for counter strike. If you hit so that you have too stretch out to get a rival, you limit yourself to only this one hit, while striking a balance and balance gives you the opportunity to beat commercially.
Forget about Jeb. If you don't beat Jeb, you'll never be able to prepare a really hard kick. Use the jab! Short strong jab stuns the opponent (or otvlekat it) and helps you to prepare crown with a hard punch.
Too fast series. What happens when you are excited in battle, begin to inflict a lot of quick blows only the weight of the hands, ie do not put the weight of the rest of the body in the blows? Of course, you have a lot of energy and your blows all seem strong enough to you, however, over time, the hands will get tired and the power in the blows will disappear altogether.
Telegraphy. In any case, before you blow keep your fist to yourself (as if to strike). A lot of boxers do it in the ring and their punches become predictable. Try standing by the bag without movement to throw a blow to someone unexpected for you team. Do not jump back and forth, in a predictable rhythm for the opponent.
Stay away from weight work. Attempt to deliver a powerful blow at the expense of bench press – the same thing that the attempt to break the land speed record in the women's sprint at the expense of working with rod for the development of leg muscles. Written many conflicting articles on the usefulness or futility of training with weights for staging a hard blow, however, the science is simple: when working with weight your body becomes stronger with slow motion (kick – fast movement). Moreover, training with weights will significantly increase your strength in a very limited number of types of movements. The body will develop unnatural muscle sizes that will have little stamina. If it was possible to build really strong and fast muscles for Boxing, a great midweight boxer could easily become a great heavyweight boxer, wouldn't he?

Training for performances of hard hitting

Hit me slowly. This is one of my favorite tips. I force my wards to beat as hard as possible, but slowly – at half speed. Almost all whom I trained, was surprised by the fact that when they beat slowly, the force of their blows is greater in comparison with because of their quick strikes. The reason is that no person's body body can move faster than their hands. Usually the hand completes the blow before the body begins to rotate. The application of slow strokes to help you engage the whole body in the shot and really helps to make the blow really strong. Exercise: stand at the front counter near the bag or opposite a partner with legs. The feet slightly wider than shoulder width and rotate right and left crosses. It is important that the boxer pauses for two seconds before each shot, as if posing in front of the photographer. Try! Exercises for development of speed, there are many, however, at this stage, our goal is to beat the slow!
Swimming is a great way to develop strength throughout the body. Of exercises to develop strength and endurance on the effectiveness of equal swimming, not so much!
Isometric exercises. Stand by the wall, lean slightly and put your fist against the wall and push your fist as if your punch is stuck. Apply maximum force for 10 seconds; then change hands. 15 repetitions and 3 approaches to each hand. This exercise trains the body's ability to conserve energy. How would you cause the body to become rubber harness – as soon as the obstacle in the way of the fist disappear – BAM!
To learn to beat harder, you have to be ready to forget everything you know and try something new. As with everything else, there is always room for improvement in Boxing. Boxers who think they know everything will never learn to hit harder. Keep your mind open and pay attention to the techniques and strategies that you have never used, and then achieve results. Respect other percussion technique and learn to implement it in your own.