Something i noticed when i started to focus more on the punch technique especially shoulder projecting that after a session of full power strikes my back was really sore...they don't say a good punch is one that you put your back into it for nothing.
Damn you just came like a don with your post. My lower back been hurting the last 3 days and couldn’t figure out why. Looking back I hadn’t picked up anything heavy so I was like 🤷🏻♂️. Then 🫵🏼 came in with the clutch timing. 🫵🏼 🏆👍
@@saitama.s3344 I Dont know if its working in some countries but in germany the teachers give a fuck you have to get out of your misery by yourself and the best way to face bullies is with self confidence and violent action
Awesome vid! The aggressive retraction part is so true. When you explained all the perks and tips I just had memories come flooding in, I’ve been subconsciously doing that punching mad aggressive. Aggressively engaging muscles I do that especially on the hooks and no wonder my whole lat and the upper part of my tricep and deltoids be sore! And on the bag to I’m in all in or nothing person and also impatient so I was putting all of my power into those stiff jabs and cross on the bag and because of my lack of experience and poor technique I hurt both of my wrist and it had stayed that way for a couple months but now they’re fully healed now I’ll be more careful and I tell myself "I’m not ready to go demon mode on the bag" (and there’s a good example of me doing that on one of my old instagram posts when I had the gray hoodie on)
Yeh dude it's a balance where you have to have the technique down first or like you quite rightly stated it's possible to become injured. You need the right amount of intent for your current level to stimulate growth and muscular adaptation, but not too much that it's gonna injure you. My next vid is actually all about this so look out for that next week! ✌🏼
I've boxed for 38 years, competitively in my younger days 147/16. For me, my power comes from SPEED. Driving my hands to move faster creates high velocity, creating power. My body rotates accordingly to. I also train in ranges. So for example. On a heavy bag. I work from the outside, an approximate 3.5ft from the target. Working on the inside, I'll work from an approximate 14-16" range. For me, the most important thing to train is your feet. I never work on a straight track. Instead I create angles and I constantly move, and move in from obscure angles. Shadow boxing is the best excise you can do, with weighted hands for resistance.
3:33 is my goal, it’s awesome I paused the video to try out the series he was explaining to us and I can tell you as a man whose well over 50 years old I could feel the difference. It was amazing to learn at such an older age, though.
one thing i've noticed is let's say you do a straight right punch , the left shoulder blade shld pull back pushing the right shoulder blade forward with the hips simultaniously , so 6 points that are connected and shld work together , 1 : left hip , 2: left shoulder blade , 3 : left shoulder , 4 : right hip , 5: right shoulder blade and 5 : right shoulder , so the right handed reverse punch : the 3 points or right half of your torso shoots forward as the same time the left 3 points/ left side of your torso shoots back , that's what i've been focusing on cause , some say power comes from the hip or the shoulder or shoulder blade , it's the rotation of the torso that shoot the punch forward .try it and see .
In karate, the retracting hand is called « hikite », wich literally translate as « pulling hand ». I’m glad you mentioned that aspect of punching. It is as important as the hand that’s actually punching. The power and speed is created by using those opposite energies.
From what I understand hikite IS Not used to generate Power but to msnipulate the opponents limbs (Like pulling the Out of the way). I am really Not Sure If it would generate any Power what so ever and infact might refuce it.
Great video, been training on a heavy bag once a week since a year now. In the beginning this was very hard and somewhat dangerous but now i can do it even bare handed on a heavy bag without too much damage on my hands.
Good drill for this which will improve your overhands is to stand within an inch of your maximum range and reach to touch it with your hand turned inwards as much as you can but as though youre reaching over a head high fence to do it. Your shoulder will naturally come up.
Amazing. Thank you very much. Two things I'm not clear on: 1. on the jab, do the hips rotate like on the cross? looks like they stay straight in the video (especially on the stiff jab) 2. on the arms, on full extension: does the humerus rotate out while the forearm and fist rotate in on pronation?
1. Good observations man, sometimes I will do this if the distance I need to cover in the jab is really long. Like the way Wilder does it... He leaps half way across the ring in an almost totally side on position to deliver the cross. It really depends on your initial positioning. 2. Yes this is ideally how it should happen, however during the outward rotation it shouldn't be so much that the arms deviate too widely from the body. You wanna remain tight and compact ✌🏼 Appreciate the kind words bro
Grant, your videos are really good for all the technical knowhow and the piece by piece of what each body part is doing in the motions for completion, I'm hoping you have a video on higher roundhouse kicks or higher Thai kicks, there's a lot of videos out there that claim stretch more etc but I think my issue is technique more than anything. If you have a video can you point me to it, if not I'd love to see that in the future. Thank again for all this stuff, your knowledge and breakdown of all the moving parts is a big light bulb moment. One thing I'd love to hear a hit more on is weight distribution when performing x and how you're feeling where centre mass goes, if there's any changes etc. Anyway just wanna say thanks again these videos are class.
I naturally did this as a lanky, long limbed fighter i just called it the whip effect cos how it looks when i throw the lead hook. I always naturally used the retraction of punches to help load up and rotate the next punch. Just getting back into training so thanks for the reminder and affirmation that i can actually throw a punch 😂
Great video young sir. A lot of this stuff is old news to me, but I think it's great for people who are novice to mid range skill. You managed to hold my interest the whole video, even though I am intimately familiar with the content. So good job! If you want to learn how to really maximize your kinetic chain, then you should learn some internal martial arts. It takes a lot of time and effort, but imo it is worth it. You will develop "effortless power", it feels like you are doing nothing, but the guy on the other end feels like he got hit by a truck. But find someone who does the real deal, those teachers are few and far in between.
The retraction principle is huge. It’s why I believe pulling exercises are much superior to developing punching power than pushing exercises. It’s like chopping wood, you don’t push the axe into the tree, you pull it through.
Could you do a video on combinations? Cross, body hook, low kick for example. Your style is fluid but how would you incorporate combinations from traditional kickboxing or muay thai?
I've just recently found this channel and I really enjoy the content, I think he has some great advice, but my only critique is this common trend where every video has to be 10x your speed, 10x your power, 10x your strength with this hack. You're not going to 10x anything, especially things like speed or power, can't we just be honest about it. These hacks may make some improvements, and can improve your skills, isn't that enough?
Nobody will watch a video that says 'slightly improve your power' bro. It's how you market videos as a content creator. It makes more people click on the video and means more people will benefit from it. It's no problem to use a clickbait title if the info is good
I mean, it doesnt all come from the shoulder/chest/back muscles since theyre regularly not as powerful as our legs, keyword, regularly. My shoulders are as strong as a pair of decently strong legs with an ohp of 143kg, however what i do notice is that punching with my upper body rather than rotating my hips and lifting my heels is that i get tired quickly, this is because our legs lift our weight all day and theyre used to exerting that force easily, plus you do use your weight. The conclusion would be that despite my shoulders/back/chest being able to launch my fist with a decent speed resulting in a good hit, its suboptimal and technique would be better to combine with occasional technique+strength punch. I've received feedback from friends that train boxing and they have told me that my punches are indeed strong but they would be harder if i added technique which Im currently working on. Good video.
Yeh man, it's a holistic approach that's needed to be completely optimal. However as strong as you are, technique is always going to provide the biggest ROI over strength no matter who you are, which is why smaller guys with stellar tech will always out punch somebody the same size or bigger who just has raw strength.
This is a great way to describe it yeah you’re right. It’s like the way I think about it is you’ve gotta create rigidity in the body to absorb the impact of the punch
I soley hit the bag for exercise purposes only and to keep sane.. It relaxes me but, I have 1 problem.. I SUCK at it.. I can't seem to develop or transfer my power to my punches..
Without seeing you train the answer will be lying in your technique. Having good technique is the starting point, before you should be trying to apply any of this extra curricular power stuff. So I'd get better at that during shadowboxing, so you're learning in a base state to perfect the punch. I've got plenty of vids on the channel discussing technique so have a watch of some of those
The lifting the shoulders part is kind of bugging me , probably does increase the power output before releasing the hand but haven’t really seen this tip ever before when fighters are throwing their 1-2s , couldn’t this lead to movements being telegraphed? So ur opponent knows when ur throwing that cross or jab
It's not supposed to be as exaggerated as I did in the video. I did it that way in order to show it in an isolated way for the audience to understand. Any person who has semi-decent striking will do this. Hitting more from the chest, without this is kind of like a traditional martial arts thing and isn't the best way to punch.
Even in heavy lifting isn't technique more important than just lifting ? like if you deadlift with wrong technique you will end up in the hospital not become stronger
I love punching the air with dumbbells. Using weighted vests, ankle/wrist weights etc. Makes punching/kicking/elbow etc. power ability & strength/endurance all condensed into a single package lol. Makes you feel and become the best version of ourselves. Train smart & hard. Smash your limitations. Goodluck peeps!
Just look at a tennis serve. Bodybuilders cannot serve harder than people who cultivate their skill in tennis. The same applies to punching technique and power
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Something i noticed when i started to focus more on the punch technique especially shoulder projecting that after a session of full power strikes my back was really sore...they don't say a good punch is one that you put your back into it for nothing.
Damn you just came like a don with your post. My lower back been hurting the last 3 days and couldn’t figure out why. Looking back I hadn’t picked up anything heavy so I was like 🤷🏻♂️. Then 🫵🏼 came in with the clutch timing. 🫵🏼 🏆👍
Same here. Shoulders never sore, always back and core.
Yeah especially upper lats
Nice comment bro, i tought i was doing something wrong but i see its a good thing to have a sore back (espacially upper back)
I second this. If you also add in weaving then your back is gonna be WACK the next days
learning boxing because of school bullying please pray for me.
Just tell ur teachers bro
give ur progress
@@gyatexts ??? wdym
@@saitama.s3344it’s never that easy, don’t fool yourself
@@saitama.s3344 I Dont know if its working in some countries but in germany the teachers give a fuck you have to get out of your misery by yourself and the best way to face bullies is with self confidence and violent action
Very nice, smooth techniques Grant
Brilliant as always. The "shoulder throw" is exactly what my kru keeps repeating and it really changed my punching. Great vid keep going 🔥
Acts like a whip effect. I always did this naturally cos of my long n lanky frame it just felt right and gave me more power
This is way more than 3 hacks lol
Goldmine of information right here! Thanks dude
🙏
Awesome vid! The aggressive retraction part is so true. When you explained all the perks and tips I just had memories come flooding in, I’ve been subconsciously doing that punching mad aggressive. Aggressively engaging muscles I do that especially on the hooks and no wonder my whole lat and the upper part of my tricep and deltoids be sore! And on the bag to I’m in all in or nothing person and also impatient so I was putting all of my power into those stiff jabs and cross on the bag and because of my lack of experience and poor technique I hurt both of my wrist and it had stayed that way for a couple months but now they’re fully healed now I’ll be more careful and I tell myself "I’m not ready to go demon mode on the bag" (and there’s a good example of me doing that on one of my old instagram posts when I had the gray hoodie on)
Yeh dude it's a balance where you have to have the technique down first or like you quite rightly stated it's possible to become injured. You need the right amount of intent for your current level to stimulate growth and muscular adaptation, but not too much that it's gonna injure you. My next vid is actually all about this so look out for that next week! ✌🏼
This was very helpful! Thanks Grant! Love the B-roll too
Thanks glad you liked it!
useful technique and drill my friend!
I've boxed for 38 years, competitively in my younger days 147/16. For me, my power comes from SPEED. Driving my hands to move faster creates high velocity, creating power. My body rotates accordingly to. I also train in ranges. So for example. On a heavy bag. I work from the outside, an approximate 3.5ft from the target. Working on the inside, I'll work from an approximate 14-16" range. For me, the most important thing to train is your feet. I never work on a straight track. Instead I create angles and I constantly move, and move in from obscure angles. Shadow boxing is the best excise you can do, with weighted hands for resistance.
🫡 shadow boxing is the truth. my pops was a kick boxer. he gave me a lot game on the bag. R.i.P pops 🫡
The best video so far... i was looking for that information for months. thank you❤
Thank you I'm quite pleased with how this one came out
3:33 is my goal, it’s awesome
I paused the video to try out the series he was explaining to us and I can tell you as a man whose well over 50 years old I could feel the difference. It was amazing to learn at such an older age, though.
Nice one. Thanks Grant :)
I'm going to have to probably watch this video at least 10 times to make sure I fully soak in everything...
The most unexpectedly relatable comment I have ever seen
I do karate and thai boxing but ive always loved that my sensei says that power comes from the hips
not only hips but rotation of the torso but first a sterong stance/base is needed than rotational forward strikes .
one thing i've noticed is let's say you do a straight right punch , the left shoulder blade shld pull back pushing the right shoulder blade forward with the hips simultaniously , so 6 points that are connected and shld work together , 1 : left hip , 2: left shoulder blade , 3 : left shoulder , 4 : right hip , 5: right shoulder blade and 5 : right shoulder , so the right handed reverse punch : the 3 points or right half of your torso shoots forward as the same time the left 3 points/ left side of your torso shoots back , that's what i've been focusing on cause , some say power comes from the hip or the shoulder or shoulder blade , it's the rotation of the torso that shoot the punch forward .try it and see .
Excellent video. Great explanation of pulling the shoulder of the non hitting hand back
I like the way Grant explains the little details inside the details that an untrained eye simply doesn’t see.
These are some priceless tips man appreciate it!
Glad you found it helpful bro
In karate, the retracting hand is called « hikite », wich literally translate as « pulling hand ». I’m glad you mentioned that aspect of punching. It is as important as the hand that’s actually punching. The power and speed is created by using those opposite energies.
I’m glad you appreciated that man. These are the small, but often overlooked details that make a massive difference 💪🏼
From what I understand hikite IS Not used to generate Power but to msnipulate the opponents limbs (Like pulling the Out of the way). I am really Not Sure If it would generate any Power what so ever and infact might refuce it.
you explained it with such precision, it was flawless.
Great video, thank you !
Thank you bro
That is the most useful advice I have ever heard on this topic.
🔥 happy to hear that!
This was a great vid. Well done
Dude you are a machine I expected more gimmicks but this is really good stuff well worth re watching
Haha thanks brother, no gimmicks on this channel 💯
That retraction using a feint is super slick!
Really good . Impressive
Great video, been training on a heavy bag once a week since a year now. In the beginning this was very hard and somewhat dangerous but now i can do it even bare handed on a heavy bag without too much damage on my hands.
Yeh it's certainly a skill that you learn to adapt to. Keep it up
Great video. Saw immediate results. I should have known this, but just stop thinking. Thankyou 🙏🏽
Good drill for this which will improve your overhands is to stand within an inch of your maximum range and reach to touch it with your hand turned inwards as much as you can but as though youre reaching over a head high fence to do it. Your shoulder will naturally come up.
I am no boxing expert but i think your channel is really underated mate. Great video
Thank you bro appreciate that!
Hey buddy awesome video well explained best one I've seen for a while on here.
Thank you brother, I appreciate that!
great video
Amazing. Thank you very much. Two things I'm not clear on:
1. on the jab, do the hips rotate like on the cross? looks like they stay straight in the video (especially on the stiff jab)
2. on the arms, on full extension: does the humerus rotate out while the forearm and fist rotate in on pronation?
1. Good observations man, sometimes I will do this if the distance I need to cover in the jab is really long. Like the way Wilder does it... He leaps half way across the ring in an almost totally side on position to deliver the cross. It really depends on your initial positioning.
2. Yes this is ideally how it should happen, however during the outward rotation it shouldn't be so much that the arms deviate too widely from the body. You wanna remain tight and compact ✌🏼
Appreciate the kind words bro
Fantastic video, you definitely earned a subscriber
Brilliant video
Thank you
Great tips.. There are so many nuisances in the sweet science and you just added a few more in my drills..
Really helpful! Thank you!
Just saw this channel and loved how you explain. Just subscribed
Thank you Nigel! Glad you find the content valuable
Thanks for your advices. The one about using one arm to make second one faster/ stronger is like a magic ✨.
What a great advise : thank you so much
dude huge thanks for the 6:33 advice... Never heard anything like that before... And makes total sense.
Thanks for the video.
Phenomenal video
Thank you
Nice work
Learning boxing to be strong 😅
Retracting your punches back to your guard with power is commonly taught in Karate and Chinese martial arts.
Thank you.
Thank you very much !!!
Thanks. It was a great advice.
Thank you so much bro that's help alot
Grant, your videos are really good for all the technical knowhow and the piece by piece of what each body part is doing in the motions for completion, I'm hoping you have a video on higher roundhouse kicks or higher Thai kicks, there's a lot of videos out there that claim stretch more etc but I think my issue is technique more than anything. If you have a video can you point me to it, if not I'd love to see that in the future.
Thank again for all this stuff, your knowledge and breakdown of all the moving parts is a big light bulb moment. One thing I'd love to hear a hit more on is weight distribution when performing x and how you're feeling where centre mass goes, if there's any changes etc.
Anyway just wanna say thanks again these videos are class.
Thank you bro! I have one actually, I think you'll find it beneficial!
th-cam.com/video/D38v1daizn0/w-d-xo.html
@@grantstevensma thank you brother, I will check this, I appreciate!
Tried these tips and knocked my heavy bag off its rack . Bless up
Very interesting, will try in my workout
Try number 1 with dumbbells. Start at 5 or 10. I'm up to 30s and it has mad my 1, 2 so fast
I naturally did this as a lanky, long limbed fighter i just called it the whip effect cos how it looks when i throw the lead hook. I always naturally used the retraction of punches to help load up and rotate the next punch. Just getting back into training so thanks for the reminder and affirmation that i can actually throw a punch 😂
Great video, I learned a lot from this video. Is there a hacks at defense too? If there is,
nice good stuff pal
Don’t forget to work on your back and legs. Strong legs will add alot of force to your punch
nice❤
Its all in the hips and shoulders
Focus on them in shadow boxing and youll be a killing machine
Great video young sir. A lot of this stuff is old news to me, but I think it's great for people who are novice to mid range skill. You managed to hold my interest the whole video, even though I am intimately familiar with the content. So good job! If you want to learn how to really maximize your kinetic chain, then you should learn some internal martial arts. It takes a lot of time and effort, but imo it is worth it. You will develop "effortless power", it feels like you are doing nothing, but the guy on the other end feels like he got hit by a truck. But find someone who does the real deal, those teachers are few and far in between.
ur not him bro
@@olleberkhout7491 What a genius observation! You are going to be our next great scientist, I am sure of it.
please someone suggest me some exercises for shoulder my right shoulder hurts after i punch the bag
Great video, very substantive. And thanks for Tyson with Botha. Daddy has on VHS hehe.
Thank u bro
7:21 very good points
Dam bro underrated as f
Thanks bro!!
Really useful video, would you be able to create a similar one on different punch techniques such as the jab? Thanks.
Will do thanks!
Nicest striking on TH-cam!
The retraction principle is huge. It’s why I believe pulling exercises are much superior to developing punching power than pushing exercises. It’s like chopping wood, you don’t push the axe into the tree, you pull it through.
Yeh man and it's one of those things that the majority of people aren't even aware of!
7:00 I was once told that a punch is a pull not push, exactly like that
It will be so educational if you release your sparring
Could you do a video on combinations? Cross, body hook, low kick for example.
Your style is fluid but how would you incorporate combinations from traditional kickboxing or muay thai?
Trust me bro watch Gabriel varga or Jeff chan mma
i can only punch hard at close range the most and sometimes midlle
thanks
Never miss leg day
I've just recently found this channel and I really enjoy the content, I think he has some great advice, but my only critique is this common trend where every video has to be 10x your speed, 10x your power, 10x your strength with this hack. You're not going to 10x anything, especially things like speed or power, can't we just be honest about it. These hacks may make some improvements, and can improve your skills, isn't that enough?
Nobody will watch a video that says 'slightly improve your power' bro. It's how you market videos as a content creator. It makes more people click on the video and means more people will benefit from it. It's no problem to use a clickbait title if the info is good
I mean, it doesnt all come from the shoulder/chest/back muscles since theyre regularly not as powerful as our legs, keyword, regularly. My shoulders are as strong as a pair of decently strong legs with an ohp of 143kg, however what i do notice is that punching with my upper body rather than rotating my hips and lifting my heels is that i get tired quickly, this is because our legs lift our weight all day and theyre used to exerting that force easily, plus you do use your weight. The conclusion would be that despite my shoulders/back/chest being able to launch my fist with a decent speed resulting in a good hit, its suboptimal and technique would be better to combine with occasional technique+strength punch. I've received feedback from friends that train boxing and they have told me that my punches are indeed strong but they would be harder if i added technique which Im currently working on. Good video.
Yeh man, it's a holistic approach that's needed to be completely optimal. However as strong as you are, technique is always going to provide the biggest ROI over strength no matter who you are, which is why smaller guys with stellar tech will always out punch somebody the same size or bigger who just has raw strength.
@@grantstevensma yes, thanks for your response, I'm currently working on my technique.
I would suggest Bulgarian hack squats, Romanian dead lifts, and the Hungarian ass press.
Nice haircut. What salon do you go to?
😂😂😂😂❤
what about for heavy weight or middle weight
Your eyes are fuckin gangster
Can u breakdown the boxer marvin cook specifically his short hook and his cross on his bladed stance,I am sure u have seens his vids.
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I miss some kind of lock out, you end the punch by becoming a rock hard statue briefly.. or is this not true?
This is a great way to describe it yeah you’re right. It’s like the way I think about it is you’ve gotta create rigidity in the body to absorb the impact of the punch
I soley hit the bag for exercise purposes only and to keep sane.. It relaxes me but, I have 1 problem.. I SUCK at it.. I can't seem to develop or transfer my power to my punches..
Without seeing you train the answer will be lying in your technique. Having good technique is the starting point, before you should be trying to apply any of this extra curricular power stuff. So I'd get better at that during shadowboxing, so you're learning in a base state to perfect the punch. I've got plenty of vids on the channel discussing technique so have a watch of some of those
Thank you
Devin Haney needs to watch this 😂
Oh dammm 😅
The lifting the shoulders part is kind of bugging me , probably does increase the power output before releasing the hand but haven’t really seen this tip ever before when fighters are throwing their 1-2s , couldn’t this lead to movements being telegraphed? So ur opponent knows when ur throwing that cross or jab
It's not supposed to be as exaggerated as I did in the video. I did it that way in order to show it in an isolated way for the audience to understand.
Any person who has semi-decent striking will do this. Hitting more from the chest, without this is kind of like a traditional martial arts thing and isn't the best way to punch.
Which martial arts you have learned?
I have trained in a mix of different styles man, but not too much in any. You can find more details on this in the Q&A Vids I did a while back.
Very useful even for Karate.
Even in heavy lifting isn't technique more important than just lifting ? like if you deadlift with wrong technique you will end up in the hospital not become stronger
100% man
1:40 yh but im 260
I dont understand what you're getting at?
@@grantstevensma it’s a joke cause Bradley Martin always thinks he can fight and says he’s 260lbs 😂🤣
@@VERXonSMOKE Ohh damn, yeh bro there's tons of those deluded fools
@@grantstevensma for real 🤣 one good landing punch of kick tends to set them straight tho 😂
@@VERXonSMOKE FACTS!
Joe rogan says you cant train to be power puncher, Some people just have it.
If that's what you wanna believe...
So why do people even bother training?
be a scaffolder!
It is God that helps us❤
Train legs and core they give you like 70 percent of the power
Tecnech wethawt equmeint
You don’t even need weights for punching power, knuckle pushups is a better substitute for weights. Resistance bands at best
Agreed, I've never lifted weights
I love punching the air with dumbbells. Using weighted vests, ankle/wrist weights etc. Makes punching/kicking/elbow etc. power ability & strength/endurance all condensed into a single package lol. Makes you feel and become the best version of ourselves. Train smart & hard. Smash your limitations. Goodluck peeps!
So i guess im already 10x
3:30
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admin, can you add Turkish language translation?
I think you can do this via the captions man
Just look at a tennis serve. Bodybuilders cannot serve harder than people who cultivate their skill in tennis.
The same applies to punching technique and power