How to throw a more powerful punch?

let the power start in your feet, travel up your legs , abdomen then into the arm. Kinda like a golf swing.
Don’t visualize hitting the object but rather going right through it.

Haha it’s all in the technique baby. Sounds like your wasting a helluva lot of energy. It’s all in the stance you take up prior to throwing that haymaker. Feet shoulder width apart & put all your weight into that frickin bag. Best advice I can give & that’s coming from a fellow lightweight in the slap stakes :¬)

Now I gotta find one of these machines. Move your hips into your punch just before you hit.

Put your hip in to it, you need to turn your hips and put a little bit of shoulder in to it. Hit with the knuckles of your index and middle finger, not the other 3, and as soon as you hit, pull back, otherwise you will turn your punch in to a push.

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yep I agree with @Odysseus my Dad used to say to me, don’t aim for the bag…(or whatever) aim for a foot beyond it..and put your whole body behind it, keeping yourself rooted with your legs…

Put your weight into it.;)

This is how

Think of hitting the bag with your entire body and not just your fist. Practice pushing your weight off your back foot (heel on the ground) and as you wind up and move to deliver the punch….rotate your right hip forward and send all your upper body weight into that right arm and at the same time send your left arm and shoulder back as a counter weight to the momentum of the right punching side of your body. At impact you should be full on into the bag and your back foot solidly ground. Say “BAM” as you hit or make some other Bad Ass sound. Seriously, the scream is important as it helps to engage your stomach muscles which helps to bridge that gap between your thighs and your upper body and sending more energy into that punching arm. ;)

No idea, but if you’re interested in exploring some forms of martial art that revolve around strength, maybe check out boxing or kickboxing. Seems pretty brutal to me, so they prolly got good techniques on how to hit hard.
Gimme a holler when you’re ready to do that bear thing though. XD

See above. It is not about throwing your arm and fist. It is about tranferring muscular power from your legs, then adding your core muscles and supporting it all with your shoulders. Your arm merely becomes a messenger of what is going on in your lower body. If you throw a bunch of punches on Monday, you should feel it in your core muscles on Tuesday.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

That’s a great video, @Cruiser, and tips.

For a long time I thought of the whole concept of “energy redirection” as a bunch of woo, along the lines of Chi and that sort of thing, but I guess there is a lot of truth to it.

I’ve started practicing putting my hips into it and following through, and I can already tell a huge difference.

@Symbeline, oh I definitely will!

My karate instructor taught me to “punch with your legs, kick with your arms.” The first thing you have to do is get a good solid stance Then make a strong fist by first bending at the second knuckle, then the first, and hold it together with your thumb. Make sure that you are punching with your knuckles. Start the punch in your feet and feel the energy working its way up through your body and focus all of your chi energy mentally on your fist. Then let loose and as others have said, think about punching through the bag.

@SuperMouse _“punch with your legs, kick with your arms.” _

You know… that makes sense. The more I practice this type of thing, the more I can “feel” the kinetic energy I’m supposed to be channeling. I can’t wait to head back to the bar, now, haha.

@Fiddle Playing Creole Bastard

There’s always the mechanical bull if punching isn’t your forte. ;-)

@Coloma Haha I can totally see him doing that. :D

@Coloma, that’d be a new one for me. I’m used to being the one being ridden.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard…oh really? ’‘Raises eyebrow’’ :D

@Symbeline, ya really ;-)

Never discount the role muscle memory plays. Best exercise? Punching stuff.

@incendiary_dan Best exercise? Punching stuff.

It’s so simple, and yet I overlooked it.

My eyebrow raise meant Imma rape yo…yeah, I’ll be good. XD

@Symbeline, you can’t rape the willing…

—@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard—

‘You can’t rape the willng’.

Hahahaha…oh, that’s good, maybe your next book title, if you move out of young adult fiction.

I can see it now, instant classic like the Grapes of Wrath.lol