Keep Muscles Flexed or Loose When Throwing a Punch?
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- A great question that I've been asked is, "Shane, when throwing a punch, should I keep my fist tense and muscles flexed or should I keep everything loose and relaxed?" The answer is a combo of both. Stay loose before and while throwing the punch. You want to squeeze your fist and forearm muscles just before the point of impact.
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By doing this you will get optimum speed and pack a strong punch, without injuring your hand. If you stay to tight, you will fatigue yourself quickly and restrict your speed and movements. And if you stay too loose, you risk injuring your hand and won't have any density in your fist, resulting in a weak punch.
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This is something very recommended to practice as the longer you have your fists tight it will decrease your stamina drastically and lose speed in your punches.
..... Which was stated in the video...... And you thumbed your own comment smfh.
And staying tense the whole time tires you out a lot quicker like in sparring
bruce lee stressed this concept/theory alot, relaxed but tense before impact
Great question with an UNDISPUTABLE answer. Shane is beast.
Wow, I never thought about that. Thanks Shane.
Hell yeah! Love watching these!
I like the new background. It looks really professional.
Damn, I had this question in mind for a while now, finally i get answer aha thanks Shane!
I used to do that and it was good but i was fighting someone who blocked my punches by hitting on them white his hands open like boxing mits so my fingers almost broke a tip from my keep your hands closed when trowing a punch. Srry for my english
Awesome videos Shane
quick and to the point
This is what my Goju Ryu instructor told me
Thank you for the answer sir🙂
Wow thanks shane I will try it while sparring tomorrow.
Thank you Shane :)
Nice advice shane
Keep em coming
Truque básico de boxe, mas ajuda quem não sabe.
Nice Video!
Thanks,that helps me a lot.
K. Thanks everybody. This adds validity to the info in the videos
I fuckin love your tips man!
Lots of dumb comments and advice down here. If you have questions. Ask Shane. Please don't give advice unless you're a trained professional or fighter.
Nice I figured this out when I was sparring yesterday so I looked it up to see if I was doing it correctly 😂😂
Thanks gee.
THANKS!!!
Shane your awesome
Open handed strikes can be very affective, you just need to know what part of your hand to strike with and where to hit.
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Maan you are the best
Nice background. :D
vertical fists reduce the chance to break the hands especially when hitting the head. I have hit walls consistently with vertical fists and have had little damage other than scrapes on my knuckles(not to say you should do this). when using horizontal fists there is more stress on the wrists which could result in sprains, fractures and breaks.
That’s because you get more power from twisting your wrist into a horizontal position during the punch
When in a Muay Thai clinch, I've been told to stay loose, but how am I supposed to stay loose when my opponent has the upperhand? If I'm too low I risk getting kneed in various places. The same applies to getting low enough to roll out of a clinch. Should I guard my face and body and go low if I can't stand tall during a clinch?
Stay nice and calm
I've been doing this subconsciously since I can remember..
It's weird, learning different martial arts I also learned many locks and stances etc by myself before even having a concept of these things.. I think we forget that we are quite smart and also it was humans who created these rules to fighting or defence
A better explanation as to why you should not curl your fingers when you punch is that when you curl your fingers into a fist it is more likely that you will be limp wristed when you retract your jab which will cause the hand to vibrate around your wrist which will transmit torsional forces to the wrist and elbow causing damage to the joints. While holding your fingers flat against the palm will station the wrist in a straighter alignment with the bones of the forearm causing the force of rapidly retracting the punch to be transmitted in a more linear way to the bones of the arm causing less stress on the joints.
100% mike tyson was flexing his lats while punching these under cuts and right right while close range
shane how do i find the right distance in a fight? how can i shorten the distance, and stay in a comfortable distance for me to fight?
extend your jab arm so that it (almost) touches the bag. If it does so you are set, as your body lunge forward a bit during a jab and twists and turns a lot during a cross, making the cross have an even longer reach
shane, do you often eat at flamebroiler?
This helped me during one if my kickboxing tournaments. I'm a 5'4 girl against an 6'2 dude. He's 16 I'm 13. And this helped me Win. My coach doesn't pay attention to me because i was the last to come. But after training hard and taking my anger out on a punching bag, I've learned well. And this taught me a better quick jab technique. Thank u very mucho
...That seems like an incredibly unfair match up in all honesty xD
The L.A. Notes Seriously, who the hell puts a 13 year old girl against a 16 year guy....
shiloweston True, but hey if she won, she made him look like a bitch lmao.
shiloweston its always the kids that wanna act like a tough meathead
Man this never happened. Assuming that the dude is training just as much as you, his sheer size and power advantage already wins him the fight.
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Takes a lot of practice and drills to do this all the time and usually Boxers and Muay Thai fighter wrap their hands and/or use gloves. Constant stiffness or rapid flexing and relaxing of the muscles of the hand will wear one out physically. Being stiff when you punch all the time employs more muscle groups which will tire you out quicker while flexing before the moment of impact will cause your wrist muscles to ache over time particularly if your throwing a lot of short jabbing punches which in turn will effect the speed and repetition at which you can throw lots of punches. It's more in the way you make a fist then how tightly you clench your fists. Karate and modern boxers hold their fists with the fingers curled while Wing Chun, Russian Systema, and old style bare fist boxers tend to hold the fingers flat against their palms. While curled fingers align the knuckles of the index and middle fingers into optimal position to cause damage they result in the instinctual habit to clench your fist tightly. Holding the fingers against the palms aligns the wrist and forearm in a more relaxed position lessens the effects of clenching.
But how would you be able to do it for a flurry?
I had kickboxed for years, and still practice on the heavy bag daily; I never tighten my forearm. I don't even make a fist.
I don't use hand-wraps when on the heavy bag. When in a fight, I used as little gauze as the referee would allow, (and only to protect my opponent;) the gauze was fall off my hand loose.
When I wrapped my hands like everyone else did, my arms got tired, just like theirs did. Doing it my way, my arms don't get tired at all. When we would spar in the gym, I would spar with everyone, one after another; they got tired, I didn't.
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hi ,what do you recommend for that acid wich feels pain in the muscle when or after practicing? Thanks in advc.
Power through it, you'll get stronger and build more stamina and resistance to the burn intensity. No pain, no gain my friend! A quote I always loved "Pain is just weakness leaving the body". I don't know who said it but it's dope.
should i keep my hands closed or open during shadowboxing ?
As to why different styles use different punching styles it comes down often to how kick and grappling centric the martial art is. Arts without a lot of kicking or grappling that concentrate mostly on punching tend to utilize a looser more energy efficient punch while arts that concentrate on using legs to keep an opponent at a distance or lots of grappling a trapping techniques to off balance or immobilize an opponent tend to use a tighter punching style with an emphasis on accurate power punching rather once you create an opening as opposed to rapid combinations of punches used to overwhelm and opponent. Okinawan Te originally incorporated a great deal of trapping, throws and grappling which was largely lost when it was translated into a Do-styles. Motobu-ryu and American Kenpo is probably the arts that most freely teach and retain Okinawan style trapping and grappling as opposed to Shorinji and Nippon Kenpo and Japanese Karate styles that incorporate aiki-jutsu and Chin'na grappling styles of grappling. Oddly enough both Japanese and Okinawan styles incorporate grappling skills they learned from Chinese kung fu styles but Japanese grappling seems to have a more soft internal style component since they cut themselves off from China before Northern Shao Lin Styles became popular while Okinawa seems to have derived from a combination of soft and hard Shao Lin styles due to their closer political and cultural alignment with China.
I saw this and honestly it depends on who you're fighting and what kind of style there using i personally keep one hand open one closed, but in a serious fight both closed
... no one is talking about close or open hand here..wtf dude
Lol sorry bro read the title wrong i thought it said open or closed hand im dyslexic my bad.
Why does lossening up produce a faster punch?
is this also applied to kicks? What if sombody is trying to grab you? Do you stay loose or tense the affected area?
depends on the type of kick
if you do "standard" stuff licke a high kick or low kick you use a wipping motion where you streighten out your leg just before you hit the oppenent to increase the delivered force
if you do frontkicks or horsekicks your leg is still bend at the impact and straightens out compleelty after it in sort of a pushing motion
De la hoya taught me that in that "de la hoyas boxing lesson" vid
You're always loose, but not loose like you're completely relaxed like in a spa , you're just using the least amount of energy , and your arms is soft like marshmallow
You only tense up at the point of impact , and your arms are as hard as steel.
50 second video and boom i know
Pretty surprised that you need to teach this to anyone who considers themselves a fighter, and anyone who doesn't won't practice it often often enough to use it.
That tip may be good on bag. But a person? That may be closing the distance? Idk. Seems dangerous.
I just started learning Muay Thai. When I don't punch with a tightly squeezed fist it hurts my wrists and bones in my hands.
That's because your wrists and hands are insufficiently conditioned yet. A few hundred hours of bag and pad work will fix that.
Keeping your muscle tense all the time will drain you really fast, similar to lifting weights.
Shane can you make a video on how to defend on someone trying to grab your sack ?
groin guard!
Hey! this concept is the same in sports too! I've played tennis/badminton and its all stay relax and on contact you tighten grip!
so i applied it to martial arts and now punches are a lot more sharper and quicker
not only that, but doing sports have allow me to know how to put all my body weight into one point!
sry if this was unrelated, but i am surprised playing sports help me understand martial arts so much better
Shane! About what you said... this way I'm going show to show my opponent exactly whem I'm going to punch him and it will be easier to defend.
What do you mean?
I mean if I only close my hands when I'm about to punch him... Sorry about my english
Anees Saad so you say if you make fist your opponent is going to see it and defend it?
You misunderstood. You only close your hand the moment before impact, not before you start throwing the punch. It's already waaay too late for them to read your hands. In any case, your arm is on the way to them. If they don't read that, they're sure as hell not picking up on a fist closing in the last 6 inches of the punch!
Mat Broomfield Doesn't make much difference... Flex when you impact.
I’ve started flexing
What qualifies u to teach? Not trying to troll. I'm just wondering about your qualifications.
I mean, it's not like he is calling himself a fighting expert, he is just giving out tips that you don't have to follow or use
He is only trying to share his knowledge with others. Merely the fact that he has some knowledge to spare is enough. We can learn through out our entire lives and shane happens to know things that not everyone knows. To me there should be no qualifications needed when it comes to intelligence.
He has been doing Muay Thai for over 6 years now, I think. Maybe even more.
Often wondered that myself, but then what qualifies anyone to teach a non academic subject? No qualification needed. In fairness, I pretty much agree with Shane's stuff 75% of the time.
His middle name is Tyrone
I did this on instinct already and my grandfather told me it also, but my Shotokan instructor wanted me to be stiff in all my movements. I don't know if its shotokans flaw or his but that class was too restrictive and sometimes impractical
stay loose.. my brother whose practice Silat also teach me this, you dont lose ur speed while giving a great blow..
I used to train Shotokan for five years and this was one of the reasons for me to leave. It's not that they taught stiffness as much as teaching concepts that led to it (like keeping your fists clenched, kime etc.). What npataya said, stay loose.
Thanks for this its work. Finally I knocked out my dad now 😁
Technically speaking here.. closing your fist reduces air resistance, And the concentrated weight of the fist add to momentum and thus kinetic energy potential.
So, technically it's more effective to punch with a closed fist, but ONLY providing you hit a soft spot, OR you are highly trained (like me) and you can punch concrete without your bones breaking. (it takes years to condition the bones by the way)
That said, if you hit at a wrong angle your knuckle could go flying with the birds, so again, if you are not trained, the increased probability of a bad-angle shot, coupled with a hard spot and non-conditioned bones means you may as well stick your hand in a potato slicer
I just get this weird feeling that your full of shit.
And I give a fuck, why ?
The difference of air resistance is going to be negligible..
Technically speaking, the kinetic energy of a punch, F, (force), is 1/2 (M) x (V squared), where M = mass and V is velocity. So, the force of the punch goes up very rapidly with increased speed. The mass of your arm and fist is basically constant. And it is easy to see that you can punch much faster with a relaxed arm than with a flexed one. But the technique takes a LOT of practice. You have train yourself to clench your fist and arm only at the last instant
Oh shut up nobody gives af about how great you are narcissist
is there any way to train doing this so that i can get into the habit of doing every time i throw a punch of any kind?
+3695reddragon
practice it every time you hit the heavy bag, you can even do it wile shadow boxing eventually you wont think about it, it will just happen.
+bluecapone awesome thanks for the info dude God bless you and your loved ones :)
when I throw a straight punch, do I keep my muscles tense or just tense my muscle right before the impact?
everything lose then right before contact you lock and tense everything
+Kazuto Kirigaya
Honestly, I'm surprised no one has ripped you head off for that question. I mean, did you even watch the video??
bluecapone Please don’t take his head off bro 😂😂😂 LMAO, Stfu.
What about your stomach ? Must it always be tucked and tight or loose. I noticed when i punch and my abs ar loose i feel lighter and less tense, my punches also seem fast and fluid backed up by my unflexed body weight. But I've heard that your core must be tight when throwing a punch which makes me feel tenser and slower...which is it guys?
May be 3 years late. that’s what the shhhhh!!!!! Sound boxers make Is for. When you throw a punch you clinch your teeth and exhale through your mouth quickly too tighten your abs
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Ugh. I had this shitty boxing coach today try and tell me I have to keep my fists clenched at every point. I wanted to gouge my eyeballs out.
Another reason to use palm heels. I would say a punch is better in every way but you need to start with the palm heel until it's absolutely safe to throw closed fists
Loose!
I dont know about the rest of you, but my go to move is a spearhand to the face. I do that to numb my fingers so I have 1 body part that doesnt feel pain, my next move is the hair pull. I pull the hair till it falls out than I spearhand that hair back into my attackers face, by this time my fingers dont feel anything. Then I take my numb fingers and put them in my butt and dirty sanchez my attacker. After that I spearhand my attacker again so I can tell people the reason my fingers are all fucked up is because I spearhand people in the face. Then I make a youtube video.
I have a hard time finding enjoyment in life so I make comments like this to entertain myself. Then I think about the ppl reading my comment hoping for good advice and then I start laughing so hard I cry. Then I make a youtube video.
Still havnt made a youtube video. It's like im holding myself hostage from killing people with stupid shit. Then I make a youtube video.
Still havnt. YET.
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