Video of Me Working the Heavy Bag

[sammiza567]

better than i expected to see. where is the head movement. dont stand in front of the bag. torque your shots more hip movement.

[Pugilist King]

you are not turning your feet for ypour hooks and not really sitting down on your punches. when my trainer tells me to through a right hand im supposed to turn my foot torque my body so it all goes into the punch. fist is supposed to land slightly vertical almost as if you are turning it counter clockwise. in a lefty's case you are turning it clockwise

[RiC-DiC]

Yea, conditioning is the reason why I could never compete seriously. 5'8" 205...i'd have to lose another 35lbs to really be in the shape I'd have to be before I took competing seriously. I was once 100lbs heavier than what you see so I've already dropped a lot.

But again, the legs and the limited pop here is more so because I was already 1.5 hours into my workout in my garage which was probably 85 degrees.

Bro keep up the good work, it takes a lot of dedication to drop that much weight. From what I saw, you've got nice flow and aren't flat-footed. I can't really jump to conclusions since you looked like you were taking it easy (not ****ing the **** out of the bag), but maybe more hip-twisting and leverage would help you a lot, especially being a shorter fighter.

I think it'll help for you to picture your body (from your feet to your hands) as a towel; when you flick a wet towel at somebody, you lift it gently first, then snap it down with a quick flick of the wrist. In practice, rock your body back and forth (transfering all the weight from the back foot to the front and back etc) and side to side, getting used to feeling the point at which your punch would be the most powerful. Start flowing through with the jab or cross, after rocking your body back and forth with no tension and imagine you're flicking your arm out like the end of the towel. Focus on only tensing your fist and forearm at the END of the punch. Note: the shoulder that isn't punching should be pulling back (hip rotates) each time you punch. That increases the power of your punch.

If you tense too early, your punch won't have as much force by the time it hits the target. Force = Mass x ACCELERATION. You're faster when you aren't tense. So, remember not to load up your shots until they're at least half way to hitting your opponent. (Not that I think you're loading up, I'm just giving general advice lol)

Hope that helped

[Rockin']

That looked like a good warm up. Maybe next put something into those shots. It doesn't hang there for you to pose infront of it, it's there to make you strong. You gotta put something on those shots or you're just basically shadow boxing/posing on the heavybag. DIG INTO THAT THING!!!!. ............ Rockin'

[Mathiaz]

Your jab and cross are nice and straight.

Your hooks body punches need more shoulder rotation. I agree with the poster who said use more head movement.

Other than that you look pretty good. Cong**** on losing all that weight.

[greynotsoold]

When you throw your hook the weight stays on your right foot.

[mconstantine]

Disclaimer folks. I tend to use the heavy bag to 1. Develop good should endurance 2. Practice combination 3. Simulate fighting (shadowbox with more than the air) and 4. Work on technique...this may buck the traditional use of the heavy bag (to develop power) but I think going 100% on the bag is a waste of time. Sometimes I might just throw continuous punches on the bag for 10 mins straight just to kill my shoulders. Obviously, I'm not going to do that 100% the whole time.

You don't throw every one of your punches 100% in a fight so why would you on the bag? The key to power is knowing WHEN to use it. You don't need to practice throwing hard shots on a heavy bag. If you have good technique and rhythm in your punches, all you have to do is fully commit and voila...you just threw a hard shot. Not hard to make that adjustment when you need to. I've watched plenty guys with ****** power at amateur and pro level work the heavy bag in similar fashion and not go 100%.

Now perhaps when I was throwing hard shots, I should really dig in more and maybe I should increase the ratio of hard shots...I can dig that. But let's not act like you should be going bat **** on the bag the whole time. There are times when I focus purely on power on the bag, but not usually.

Definitely appreciate the advise though...some of you guys pointed out some things I hadn't noticed.