Wow, just wow. With all these bodily movements involved in a simple variation of a punch, it makes me just wonder and appreciate how these fighters are able to just ‘do them’ as though they were second nature.
What I meant by “whipping a punch” was basically involving your shoulders in the punching motion. Snapping your shoulders like a whip as you’re extending your arm to punch seems to also give it more force. That’s what I was told
I have heard trainers talk about the “snapping” of the shoulder when trying to throw a punch.
It almost seems like you hit harder when you ‘whip’ a punch into someone (if you will) instead of forcefully just driving your arm and fist into someone/something.
Any_Branch_4379 OP t1_jef0zgr wrote
Reply to comment by Senrabekim in ELI5: why can’t someone who is light in weight punch as hard as someone who is heavier? by Any_Branch_4379
Wow, just wow. With all these bodily movements involved in a simple variation of a punch, it makes me just wonder and appreciate how these fighters are able to just ‘do them’ as though they were second nature.
What I meant by “whipping a punch” was basically involving your shoulders in the punching motion. Snapping your shoulders like a whip as you’re extending your arm to punch seems to also give it more force. That’s what I was told