Front foot when throwing the left hook

[danny stash]

I am with a new trainer, my old trainer was from philly and wanted me to roll the front (left) foot to the punch (left hook) New coach from Jersey wants me to use the hips and ass and keep the left foot planted for all punches except when stepping for jab. Anyone have some insight?

[-PedoBear-]

i was always taught that you step slightly out first with the foot and then the hips/waist do the rest when throwing a hook..

[Verstyle]

Using both of what they said together would give you good power. You'd be planted and ready to release it. With your second coach saying isn't fully complete, you would seem to just be using arm punches.

[P4PKING_2008 :)]

I have been taught to step, pivot, twist the hips and legs for the power then duck and pivot out of there. You need to pivot and move into it for the power and technique.

[Del Coqui]

I have been taught to step, pivot, twist the hips and legs for the power then duck and pivot out of there. You need to pivot and move into it for the power and technique.

good move, lotta ppl dont know that and get peppered with right hands.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I'm a trainer and have boxed before and everyone I have ever had train me says the same thing I do. You turn your front foot, pushing off with it to gain power with the hook. Power comes from your hips and legs, not your arms.

"Turn" the front foot with the hook, that's the proper way to throw it. I have never in all my days of being involved in boxing heard of a trainer tell someone to keep that foot planted.......ever. You can't generate full power that way.

If you want to turn right push off with the left foot, to turn left, push off with the right foot. Boxing 101.........

[#1Assassin]

yeah like evryone is saying.. to get full power in a punch u need to pivot your feet, turn your hips and put your shoulder into it. thats the way to throw a hook, three stages of power. i never heard of anyone saying u should plant your left foot when throwing a hook. power in the pivot.

[skyler]

I was always told to pivot your left foot when throwing a left hook.. our trainers are actually really strict on it.

[judge_jab]

I don't see how you're supposed to hook moving forwards if you shift your weight to the rear foot and pivot on the left.

ODLH, Frazier and Trinidad all have amazing hooks and I've studied their left hooks and neither of them pivot off of the left, they plant the left foot and whip the hook out.

In the Ring ****zine, hopkins has a column where he goes through techniques and in his explanation of the left hook he talks about how the left foot should be planted and the power only comes from the knees, hips, torso and shoulders.

I've also noticed that all of these fighters throw the hook with a vertical fist, with the palm facing their faces.

[x-PeROxiDE-x]

Pivot on your front foot as you transfer weight from your back foot.

If you time it correctly with the rotation of your hips, torso and shoulders you will generate a lot more momentum and hence more power.

Always throw a punch with your body weight following in the same direction as the punch. A lot of people move their body in the general direction but not quite, and this just makes the punch less effective as less of your body weight is directly behind the punch.