subject: Three Steps To The Most Powerful Punch On Earth! [print this page] I don't care if you study Uechi ryu or shotokan or kenpo, or whatever, you're going to need a powerful fist. I don't care if it is boxing or Krav maga or tae kwon do, you're going to need a fist that knocks them down the first time! Even if you're in Aikido or Tai Chi, you're going to need some kind of real power, or at least know what power is so you can properly handle it.
The funny thing is that a powerful punch is can easily be had if you follow a couple of easy steps. You don't have to slam your poor mitts against a telephone pole. You don't have to thrust spear fingers into boxes of sand.
As with most things in this world, once you know the knowledge behind something, that something is easy to understand and do. Thus, the first thing you need to know in developing a killer punch is simple. That one thing you need to understand is...weight.
This universe is constructed of nothing more than objects flying through space. When objects strike one another weight will be the resulting sensation. The more weight involved in the collision, the bigger and better the collision.
To effectively strike somebody, your fist must sail through space and come into collision. Now, if the body your fist is colliding with weighs a couple of hundred pounds, then you are going to have to have a couple of hundred pound strike. Well, you could multiply the 20 pounds of your arm by ten times the velocity, but there are easier ways to make this happen.
The easiest way is to get your body behind the punch. Your arm may weigh 20 pounds, but if you can add your legs and your torso and even your head to the equation, you can weigh, especially when you times your weight by velocity, 200 pounds. Heck, if you can get a hundred pounds of body weight into a punch, and then multiple it by a simple ten, you are going to have a thousand pound punch.
First, do lots of push ups, and when your arms get strong, start jumping your push ups into the air. Second, examine your form slowly, looking at the pieces of your body and how to assemble them into one intention. Three, set up a six foot tall box, make it weigh 200 pounds, pad it, and practice shoving it across the floor with your punch.
The funny things is that this method is so simple that nobody has ever really stumbled across it. And, to be truthful, the importance of delivering weight in the martial arts has been totally overlooked. But, whether you do pa kua chang, tai chi chuan, Shito ryu, Hung gar, or any of the forms of classical kung fu, you need to understand weight, and you need to implement some form of the training method I have detailed here if you want The Most Powerful Punch on the planet!
