Power packed straight traditional punch

In order for you to develop power in your straight punch you need to practise everyday .... 10 reps for each x 3 sets. For example, do single punch alternatively ... one punch one count ... up to 10. Then repeat another 2 sets. Remember to inhale before punching and exhale when punching... relax your whole body. Tense up a little bit upon impact (split second). For double punch... right and left are counted as 1.... do 10 reps for 3 sets. Do not use a lot of energy .... remember the law of physics f = ma. The 'a' is accelaration = speed.

Traditional straight punch

I've done thousands of the traditional straight punch since I started learning it about 34 years ago from different stand up styles and different gurus, instructors and masters. I can only remember two of them teaching me the punch with a proper breathing technique - Master Mintarja Seongkono who taught me Tae Kwon Do (ITF) when I was in Canada, and Master Mal Tae Kim who I am still training with until now. Breathing is very important because if you don't have the 'air' in your lungs all your punches are useless. When I first started to do multiple straight punches, I used to hold my breath and realease it during the last on. What happened normally was that I would be out of breath. My face would turn blue ..so to speak. Everything changed when I trainned under these two masters. What they asked me to do is to take a deep breath before you execute the multiple punches and exhale a bit with each execution of the punch. So it is like one punch is accompanied by a little exhaling of breath. So if you do five punches ... you are going to exhale five times through the mouth. I found it helped me with breathing and power. I could easily do fifty punches without feeling dizzy. Try the technique yourself. .... But one more thing ...when you execute the punch please ensure your whole body is 100% relax. Do not thghten you fist and forearm.

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Tang Soo Do traditional straight punch

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Power Punch

Power of punch comes from mass of your fist and the accleration of your fist moving from the starting point to the target. According to the second law of motion (Isaac Newton) .The force of a moving body on impact is the product of mass times accelartion (M= m x a). What this means is that the bigger the mass the more damage it causes to a target. However, it depends on how much you accelerate your fist. The bigger the mass and the higher the acceleration, therefore, the bigger the damage. The is one more factor which influence the force ... how much you are relaxed when you are performing the punch. A bigger person does not necessarily able to accelerate his fist because of his muscle tension. Only by training the punch at a relax state will you obtain the acceleration which will produce a destructive force.

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Vertical punch

So what is the difference between a vertical punch and a traditional punch? I've already explained in brief what a traditional punch is (plus the pictures). The vertical punch is employed by many martial arts. For example wing chun or ving chun, Ishhin ryu karate, xhi xhi chuan kung fu ..... The difference is in the execution .... You don't turn your first along its path .... You don straighten your whole hand ..... you bend you elbow even at the point of impact ...You ended up hittting a target with the first two knuckles.... very less energy is used..... you don't pull your other hand back to your rib .... I'll show you a picture later .... Now when I'm sparring I normally would combine this with western boxing styles .....