The average person who comes into my gym will attend two to three classes a week and will leave within four months. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But all the men who walk in will do the same thing, whether it be Boxing, Kick Boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, or Mixed Martial Arts, they alway hit much too hard. throwing their hands, clenched into fists forward, they look as though they might fall forward. So eager to learn and absorb information, they picture themselves as experts. Watching the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) they develop this mental picture that this is what a fighter does, throws rapid strong punches, one after another, until their opponent is bloodied, beaten, and unconscious. It's a sad sight to see, men, fighters, warriors with no perception of where or how to movie their body.
The Key is in the small motions. If you were to build a building you would first set cement in the ground to establish a strong base. Then move on to placing walls erect, and finally finish with a roof. I am not going to insult you by suggesting that you do not understand the concept of building a strong foundation before you begin learning something. However if you do not know this stop reading now, because my information is far to valuable for you. instead think about the building as a frame. Once again, this is rudimentary, but necessary for you to understand how to throw a proper punch. If you knock one of the walls down the roof will fall, but what if you didn't knock a wall down, what if you cut a large hole in it. Without the proper support the roof may just begin to sag, crack, and the next time El-Nino comes around you'll be looking for another roof. throwing a punch is the same way. you need your feet to be firmly planted on the ground. Non of this bullshit "Superman" punch that we saw George St. Pierre throw against Matt Hughes on May 3rd. You should feel the lactic acid build up in your taught thighs.
The next horrific thing I see new members do is the flailing of their arms, with no direction, letting the energy that their muscles are generating seep out of them, like blood from a wound. You must feel the force flowing from your feet all the way to your fist. If you did well in high school and remember anything from college you should know that Newton said, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" you're body derives its force, not from you, but from how well you can push your feet to the earth and how efficiently you can channel the opposing force through your body, to the point of your fist. Forget about you arm; It is useless. there is no power there and there never will be. You can lift all the weights you want and take all the steroids you want to make you as big as Brock Lesnar and you will still get your ass handed to you by a one hundred and ten pound Filipino Muay Thai fighter. It's an unavoidable reality, you must focus your hips and torso to follow and add to the energy. this is where your power will come from. Your feet, hips, and shoulders will all pivot. Your body will become a conductor of energy. This is your main focus, twist your hips into the punch.
Finally, The arm. your arm is useless. Like the walls it's only goal is to provide a frame. You laid your foundation (your feet and taught thighs) to conduct power. your hips are twisting into the punch to add to that power, and finally your arm is the wall that doesn't have any power. yes, it moves forward, yes where it was once bent and close to your face, it is now extended and moving away from you, but no, this is not what makes a punch a knockout. The arm is the ram. your muscles and techniques have generated all the power you need. you have started off slow, not worrying about going fast, or proving your masculinity, in fact if there was a woman in class with you, you should be going slower than her, flexing every muscle in your body into the punch. The fruition of which is your fist connecting with the mitt. The art of fighting is not done in blood, speed, or anger. Rather it is the art with which a fighter turns and trains his body into a conduit. By flexing every muscle possible and making only the slightest of movements a fighter is able to transform his body, not into a brute club, but into a precision scalpel.
The Key is in the small motions. If you were to build a building you would first set cement in the ground to establish a strong base. Then move on to placing walls erect, and finally finish with a roof. I am not going to insult you by suggesting that you do not understand the concept of building a strong foundation before you begin learning something. However if you do not know this stop reading now, because my information is far to valuable for you. instead think about the building as a frame. Once again, this is rudimentary, but necessary for you to understand how to throw a proper punch. If you knock one of the walls down the roof will fall, but what if you didn't knock a wall down, what if you cut a large hole in it. Without the proper support the roof may just begin to sag, crack, and the next time El-Nino comes around you'll be looking for another roof. throwing a punch is the same way. you need your feet to be firmly planted on the ground. Non of this bullshit "Superman" punch that we saw George St. Pierre throw against Matt Hughes on May 3rd. You should feel the lactic acid build up in your taught thighs.
The next horrific thing I see new members do is the flailing of their arms, with no direction, letting the energy that their muscles are generating seep out of them, like blood from a wound. You must feel the force flowing from your feet all the way to your fist. If you did well in high school and remember anything from college you should know that Newton said, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" you're body derives its force, not from you, but from how well you can push your feet to the earth and how efficiently you can channel the opposing force through your body, to the point of your fist. Forget about you arm; It is useless. there is no power there and there never will be. You can lift all the weights you want and take all the steroids you want to make you as big as Brock Lesnar and you will still get your ass handed to you by a one hundred and ten pound Filipino Muay Thai fighter. It's an unavoidable reality, you must focus your hips and torso to follow and add to the energy. this is where your power will come from. Your feet, hips, and shoulders will all pivot. Your body will become a conductor of energy. This is your main focus, twist your hips into the punch.
Finally, The arm. your arm is useless. Like the walls it's only goal is to provide a frame. You laid your foundation (your feet and taught thighs) to conduct power. your hips are twisting into the punch to add to that power, and finally your arm is the wall that doesn't have any power. yes, it moves forward, yes where it was once bent and close to your face, it is now extended and moving away from you, but no, this is not what makes a punch a knockout. The arm is the ram. your muscles and techniques have generated all the power you need. you have started off slow, not worrying about going fast, or proving your masculinity, in fact if there was a woman in class with you, you should be going slower than her, flexing every muscle in your body into the punch. The fruition of which is your fist connecting with the mitt. The art of fighting is not done in blood, speed, or anger. Rather it is the art with which a fighter turns and trains his body into a conduit. By flexing every muscle possible and making only the slightest of movements a fighter is able to transform his body, not into a brute club, but into a precision scalpel.
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