A good puncher in boxing understands what a good punch is.
A good punch is not the heaviest punch, it's the sharpest punch.
If you look at the human body and head, the idea is to hit it sharp enough that the body absorbs the blow and it causes damage. If the shot is a push the body will actually just move back taking the danger off the shot.
You could hurt someone with an arm punch if you hit them sharp enough and they didn't see the shot coming and failed to brace for it.
Same goes for the brain, it's sitting in jelly, to hurt someone you have to hit it sharp enough that the brain jars in the jelly and rebounds.
It's all about piercing the target.
Older fighters used to try and pop the speed bag, to pop a speed bag you need to hit it very fast and sharp, if your shot is a heavy push the speed bag just moves. Think of it like punching a peice of paper and you are trying to rip it. 500 lbs of slow mass just moves it, 100 lbs sharply tears it.
The heavy bag is bad to learn punching on, so are hand pads. Both of them encourage wrong punching technique. The heavy bags original use was to toughen the hands up by wearing small thumb less gloves, and to strengthen punching muscles.
Double end bags used to be bigger so you could wack them hard and proper, I don't know what's up with these. Micro double ends or what benefit they hold.
And of course hitting a speed bag stationary (like a heavy bag).
A really light heavy bag might work as well, something that. Moves easy as to encourage you to hit it sharply. If you hit it sharp the bag won't move as the bag absorbs the shot.
A good punch is not the heaviest punch, it's the sharpest punch.
If you look at the human body and head, the idea is to hit it sharp enough that the body absorbs the blow and it causes damage. If the shot is a push the body will actually just move back taking the danger off the shot.
You could hurt someone with an arm punch if you hit them sharp enough and they didn't see the shot coming and failed to brace for it.
Same goes for the brain, it's sitting in jelly, to hurt someone you have to hit it sharp enough that the brain jars in the jelly and rebounds.
It's all about piercing the target.
Older fighters used to try and pop the speed bag, to pop a speed bag you need to hit it very fast and sharp, if your shot is a heavy push the speed bag just moves. Think of it like punching a peice of paper and you are trying to rip it. 500 lbs of slow mass just moves it, 100 lbs sharply tears it.
The heavy bag is bad to learn punching on, so are hand pads. Both of them encourage wrong punching technique. The heavy bags original use was to toughen the hands up by wearing small thumb less gloves, and to strengthen punching muscles.
Double end bags used to be bigger so you could wack them hard and proper, I don't know what's up with these. Micro double ends or what benefit they hold.
And of course hitting a speed bag stationary (like a heavy bag).
A really light heavy bag might work as well, something that. Moves easy as to encourage you to hit it sharply. If you hit it sharp the bag won't move as the bag absorbs the shot.
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