As you get more experienced you will start to feel the pop during shadow boxing, really helps with technique especially for boxers who punch with their arm rather than their waist
Your video highlights a very important, technical point in shadowboxing--probably less explained and understood by many of us, thinking we're doing it right! The punch though, starts at the foot; up to the hips (the torqueing mechanism)--the body, whip-like, follows through, as so perfectly detailed--to the target! Thanks for your video!
@@JasonBoxingNerd yeah really great mate thanks. Relaxing is key and then you start to feel the whipping motion. I think its kind of like what you do from your hips to your fist but adding an extra hinge to multiply the force at the shoulder
Hello Bro, when I throw a right jab in boxing, I feel my shoulder snap. I've heard about shoulder snapping to throw punches better, but I'm not sure if it's the same thing I'm experiencing because every time I throw a right jab, I feel my shoulder snap, but it's not the snap many talk about for throwing punches well; it's more like the snap you get when cracking your fingers, but inside the shoulder on the frontal side. It doesn't hurt, but I'm not sure if it's normal.
Hey bro that would only happen when you let the shoulder "snap" without engaging upon full extension! Make sure you engage all your supporting muscles upon impact/extension.
so... I don't remember where i heard this from, but Ricardo Lopez uses this "pop" or shoulder shrug (not while punching, but in between movements) to remind himself to relax after punching. it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or a pro, your body naturally starts to tense after punching, especially the shoulders. Most of the time, people can't feel this shoulders tightening up as if their brain isn't wired to feel it or something. The shoulder shrug is then performed to remind your brain to relax your shoulders. I gotta find that video again... I want to say GGG's clip personifies this the most out of all the clips you posted. I personally wouldn't say that you should attack someone like this, but its a good reminder during shadowboxing to just chill TF out cause most of y'all are always angry in the brain when you shadowbox lol
i don´t agree to 100%.... well, there is a little more to the shoulder pop than staying relaxed or punching like whip. Another thing it is useful for is protecting your chin. If you watch the clips you added in your video you can see that the movement can be described as raising your shoulders while keeping the chin low. Your shoulder protect your chin! Especially soviet style boxers are perfecting this. Watch bivol! He is raising his shoulders insanely high, it´s not about popping but protection.
You're missing the point of the video. The "shoulder popping" enables you to punch powerfully and quickly without a "wind-up" like seasoned fighters do. It has nothing to do with defense. The same "pop" can be done with the pelvis, too. Combining the two will give you fast, powerful punching power.
You're missing the point of my comment. I do not disagree to 100% with the video i'm just adding up the reasons for boxers to do this certain movement since the point of the video was to explain What it is and WHY they do this. At one point of the video he describes the movement as "raising the shoulders". And every coach will tell you that this also helps defense.
You’re entirely missing the point. Dipping your chin and raising your shoulders is an active thing that you do as defence, but what this video is explaining is how the ‘pop’ of the shoulder happens naturally when proper biomechanics are employed. I train in the Soviet Style, and yes we do have high shoulder position, but that has nothing to do with what this video is talking about.
@@mikecrook8434 please explain the pelvis pop further. i am a beginner but i know i dont have any technique yet. how would a beginner get feel of this pelvis pop and develop it? any drills? thank you
Raising and pushing your shoulders upwards is something, and popping it is something different, when you pop your shoulder, you're pushing it forward with the punch, which makes your arm act like a whip, and to be able to do it you gotta be relaxed, whilstwhen you raise your shoulders in order to protect your chin, they gotta be tense and stiff, otherwise they won't take a good punch.
not quite, it's half correct! We're still not swinging with the arm, we're just engaging the muscles to solidify the shot (if we don't, the arm will keep stretching back upon impact)
Should we consciously engage at the last moment ? I ask it cause i read that in order to engage at this moment we should consciously try to relax upper body muscles even during impact to actually engage but i m not sure if that is true...
That would damage your wrists or other joints, you should throw the punch relaxed, but stiffen it right on impact, that way you get a pretty hard yet whip-like hammer hit
WATCH TYSON , PACQUIAO AND BRUCE LEE WAY OF PUNCHING AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE SHOULDER MOVE , FIRST IS SOFT , AFTER SOME WEEKS OF TRAINING YOU WILL FEEL THE SNAP .
This is awesome that you're asking questions man! Excited for the journey! Try to understand the proper punching mechanics via hip rotation first. Think throwing a ball. We don't use our arm but our body to generate the torque/rotational drive while our arms become "slings."
Oh yeah. It’s least intuitive compared to uppercuts and hooks. Maybe you’ve already figured it out but I’ll try to explain for anyone else. The feel for it can be amplified if imagined like a shrug/roll of the shoulders. If you look at your right shoulder, it rolls ’forwards’ anti-clockwise for straights/hooks; clockwise ‘backwards’ for uppercuts. The best way to lock down the ,former, forward roll is to gently exaggerate the lag of an overhand and gradually turn it into a straight. Same for jabs of course. And like the vid states it is about looseness. You only lock out to follow a landed punch through. It really helps to watch the old schoolers who had much whippier jabs and bouncier shoulders. Guys like Ali, Hearns, Hagler, Holmes to name a few.
Not only does it work with hooks but also with straight punches AND with upper cuts! In addition to regular weight training, I include a heavy-bag workout 3X a week. I love hitting the bag using this correct form. It's actually fun to do physically. Audibly, the crisp sound your punches make hitting the bag is very satisfying as well.
Trying to "pop" your shoulder is incorrect mechanics. Just because you see some people doing it and you think it "looks cool" or something is not a reason to do it. Its bad mechanics.
well explained, nice video bro! But drive your elbow higher (on height of your shoulder) so you generate more power by your shoulder rotation. That`s what Olympic boxer Alexej Frolov explains.
As you get more experienced you will start to feel the pop during shadow boxing, really helps with technique especially for boxers who punch with their arm rather than their waist
Your video highlights a very important, technical point in shadowboxing--probably less explained and understood by many of us, thinking we're doing it right! The punch though, starts at the foot; up to the hips (the torqueing mechanism)--the body, whip-like, follows through, as so perfectly detailed--to the target! Thanks for your video!
this is very well said bro cheers!
Thats cool, lately ive been popping my my shoulders with my chin tucked and I've been kinds hitting myself with shoulder lmao
Maybe your popping it to much
@@Lifeisbrutal. Perhaps. But once you pop you cant stop cocopops
I have this too especially with my cross. I was wondering if that is a technique issue
Best explanation I've seen on here. Thanks!
glad to hear!
@@JasonBoxingNerd yeah really great mate thanks. Relaxing is key and then you start to feel the whipping motion. I think its kind of like what you do from your hips to your fist but adding an extra hinge to multiply the force at the shoulder
good demonstration of the shadow boxing and shoulder pop thank you
Awesome man
Awesome breakdown, new sub here!
thank you!
@@JasonBoxingNerdit does not work on an actual boxing match.
Sick vid man insightful
Hello Bro, when I throw a right jab in boxing, I feel my shoulder snap. I've heard about shoulder snapping to throw punches better, but I'm not sure if it's the same thing I'm experiencing because every time I throw a right jab, I feel my shoulder snap, but it's not the snap many talk about for throwing punches well; it's more like the snap you get when cracking your fingers, but inside the shoulder on the frontal side.
It doesn't hurt, but I'm not sure if it's normal.
Hey bro that would only happen when you let the shoulder "snap" without engaging upon full extension! Make sure you engage all your supporting muscles upon impact/extension.
My right hand has a good snap, and it took me like 3 months to have my left having the same snap.
same! Took my non-dominant hand longer to make sense of the body mechanics!
It’s basically like during a test that says “show your work” how you got a certain answer. It’s kinda like how I view this if that makes any sense.
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Yessir exactly what this is!
so... I don't remember where i heard this from, but Ricardo Lopez uses this "pop" or shoulder shrug (not while punching, but in between movements) to remind himself to relax after punching. it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or a pro, your body naturally starts to tense after punching, especially the shoulders. Most of the time, people can't feel this shoulders tightening up as if their brain isn't wired to feel it or something. The shoulder shrug is then performed to remind your brain to relax your shoulders. I gotta find that video again... I want to say GGG's clip personifies this the most out of all the clips you posted.
I personally wouldn't say that you should attack someone like this, but its a good reminder during shadowboxing to just chill TF out cause most of y'all are always angry in the brain when you shadowbox lol
i don´t agree to 100%.... well, there is a little more to the shoulder pop than staying relaxed or punching like whip. Another thing it is useful for is protecting your chin. If you watch the clips you added in your video you can see that the movement can be described as raising your shoulders while keeping the chin low. Your shoulder protect your chin! Especially soviet style boxers are perfecting this. Watch bivol! He is raising his shoulders insanely high, it´s not about popping but protection.
You're missing the point of the video. The "shoulder popping" enables you to punch powerfully and quickly without a "wind-up" like seasoned fighters do. It has nothing to do with defense. The same "pop" can be done with the pelvis, too. Combining the two will give you fast, powerful punching power.
You're missing the point of my comment. I do not disagree to 100% with the video i'm just adding up the reasons for boxers to do this certain movement since the point of the video was to explain What it is and WHY they do this.
At one point of the video he describes the movement as "raising the shoulders". And every coach will tell you that this also helps defense.
You’re entirely missing the point. Dipping your chin and raising your shoulders is an active thing that you do as defence, but what this video is explaining is how the ‘pop’ of the shoulder happens naturally when proper biomechanics are employed.
I train in the Soviet Style, and yes we do have high shoulder position, but that has nothing to do with what this video is talking about.
@@mikecrook8434 please explain the pelvis pop further. i am a beginner but i know i dont have any technique yet. how would a beginner get feel of this pelvis pop and develop it? any drills? thank you
Raising and pushing your shoulders upwards is something, and popping it is something different, when you pop your shoulder, you're pushing it forward with the punch, which makes your arm act like a whip, and to be able to do it you gotta be relaxed, whilstwhen you raise your shoulders in order to protect your chin, they gotta be tense and stiff, otherwise they won't take a good punch.
Would using 1kg weights while shadow boxing help with getting the form/movement right?
@@MegaMarky82 Yup! Thats actually one of the best ways to get the feel of this “pop”
Just don’t mistake it as a conditioning exercise
So... You do use your arm at the end of the punch? Before you actually make contact?
not quite, it's half correct! We're still not swinging with the arm, we're just engaging the muscles to solidify the shot (if we don't, the arm will keep stretching back upon impact)
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Should we consciously engage at the last moment ?
I ask it cause i read that in order to engage at this moment we should consciously try to relax upper body muscles even during impact to actually engage but i m not sure if that is true...
That would damage your wrists or other joints, you should throw the punch relaxed, but stiffen it right on impact, that way you get a pretty hard yet whip-like hammer hit
I am new to boxing and I didn't understand at all.
Could anyone explain?
WATCH TYSON , PACQUIAO AND BRUCE LEE WAY OF PUNCHING AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE SHOULDER MOVE , FIRST IS SOFT , AFTER SOME WEEKS OF TRAINING YOU WILL FEEL THE SNAP .
This is awesome that you're asking questions man! Excited for the journey! Try to understand the proper punching mechanics via hip rotation first. Think throwing a ball. We don't use our arm but our body to generate the torque/rotational drive while our arms become "slings."
@@JasonBoxingNerd IT WAS ABOUT SHOULDERS BRO . ABOUT THE HIP , ROTATION IT IS NOT ENOUGH , WATCH PACQUIAO , TYSON , BRUCE LEE 😃
Can u pop in straight punches also?
Great question! Yes you do! That would be the result of fully extending your punch (you should feel a tug on your lat muscles)
Oh yeah. It’s least intuitive compared to uppercuts and hooks. Maybe you’ve already figured it out but I’ll try to explain for anyone else.
The feel for it can be amplified if imagined like a shrug/roll of the shoulders. If you look at your right shoulder, it rolls ’forwards’ anti-clockwise for straights/hooks; clockwise ‘backwards’ for uppercuts.
The best way to lock down the ,former, forward roll is to gently exaggerate the lag of an overhand and gradually turn it into a straight. Same for jabs of course. And like the vid states it is about looseness. You only lock out to follow a landed punch through.
It really helps to watch the old schoolers who had much whippier jabs and bouncier shoulders. Guys like Ali, Hearns, Hagler, Holmes to name a few.
Not only does it work with hooks but also with straight punches AND with upper cuts! In addition to regular weight training, I include a heavy-bag workout 3X a week. I love hitting the bag using this correct form. It's actually fun to do physically. Audibly, the crisp sound your punches make hitting the bag is very satisfying as well.
Yes. It’s the same movement as if you were throwing a shot-put. The hips and torso move and whip the arm out like a piston
Thanks for sharing it but it looks to me that pro boxers don t use that pop technique for straight punches or am I wrong ?
they definitely do! We just don't see it as clearly as the hooks as the pop goes along the same plane as the straight punch's trajectory!
@@JasonBoxingNerd Great, thank you!
Trying to "pop" your shoulder is incorrect mechanics. Just because you see some people doing it and you think it "looks cool" or something is not a reason to do it. Its bad mechanics.
well explained, nice video bro! But drive your elbow higher (on height of your shoulder) so you generate more power by your shoulder rotation. That`s what Olympic boxer Alexej Frolov explains.