HOW TO STRIKE WITH MAXIMUM POWER - Training with Michael J White

okay simply put the strongest punch the body can generate is a reverse punch that we call in karate or the straight right or straight left depending on your Orthodox or southpaw in boxing all right some may argue about the hook for the hook even though it's a very effective punch and it's very strong because it rattles the jaw and you know making the head shake and you know producing knockouts it's nowhere near the force that can be derived from the core of our body okay that reverse punch turning your body turn your body looks like this the strike is at the end of my shoulder and hip turn okay generate it from the floor to my hips to the target to the target this way okay faster motion looks like this you may be able to hear it so that's what you want to practice but let's incorporate some basic moves before that first part of punching correctly starts with the basic fist now a lot of people may not have learned the real proper way of making a fist and I'm gonna you know share some history with you well first of all you should roll your fingers up to where you cannot see your fingernails and can now this is very important the wrapping of the thumb this is where we wrap our thumb now there's a mechanics to this thumb even though it seems innocuous but the first way in Okinawa Tay the beginnings of karate the fist was this way what was important about that is because stabilizing the wrist utilizing the there's a muscle called the flexor pollicis longus that this engaged if you've seen my forearm this locks in the support tendons and muscles that stabilize the wrist very important because you don't do this your wrist is not supported that's why a lot of people wrap their wrist they have to because they don't learn how to make a proper fist and if you see never back down three I kind of go into that a little bit why do you wrap your hands in boxing in an MMA so you don't spend your wrist or break your hands exactly that's because you don't know how to punch you don't know how to punch without hurting yourself not your opponent hurting your damn self new flash guys in martial arts your hands your feet your elbows your knees even your head were used as weapons and we're trained as such understand striking is about perfecting the technique maximum result minimal effort I'll go back to this but now it went from here locking that risk locking in the support of mechanisms to secure your whip wrist to the pressure here so the pressure here my pressure here lots in my list well we've changed that to the pressure which does the same thing without that pressure you're not stabilized so that's rule number one okay rule 2 okay as I mentioned the arrow okay you want this to be straight okay your bone you should have any punch should have your elbow and your two knuckles these two knuckles traveling in the same route okay like if you think about punching in a pool if I drag my elbow this way starting to do this thing again it's gonna drag right my elbow and two knuckles should be following the same pattern it's been in a hook still the same pattern as I said that arrow okay uppercuts same pattern same pattern it's going here it's coming up but it's on dissection it's traveling the same a lot of people may not know that I was a former track athlete I did decathlon at ten events and one event I did was called the shotput many people presently you've seen it where you are hurling this heavy ball at its farthest distance that you can well I went to college based on this is one of the first things that you know I was known for and so I started to apply my knowledge and the technique and the physics behind the shotput to my punching power there was these things called impacts challenge in national karate tournaments right where there was an apparatus the bag that you hit and it register how hard you hit it so you would pay your your entrance fee and you register you know you can register how many times you want to try to get the highest punch that you can muster we have pounds per square inch well the first competition that I ended up winning it and so the winner keeps the bag so I took it home and you know I started becoming obsessed with breaking my own record and so I brought it to class and you know and then I would do all of these different experiments with proper technique now sometimes I gotta explain the the most maximum effort doesn't mean it has the most maximum effect okay what you want is maximum effect least effort so utilize your body properly for the proper technique when we see any high level athlete it looks like they're they're effortless you know it's slam dunk and you know everything a great golf swing great bat swings looks effortless that's because the mechanics are there a lot of times when people hit a bag they're doing all of this and you're feeling like you're making the effort but many times that effort is dissipated think about an egg being thrown onto this bagg will just splat the energy moves this way I may smack a bag like this makes a lot of noise but that energy is just spread on the epidermis of the bag what we want is penetration okay we want to penetrate into our target a lot of times that doesn't look very impressive or make a lot of noise just like a boxer throws that short that short punch yes that's the ride by the body that's derived by proper mechanics and that's what I'm trying to teach okay so one of the things I did like when I would win the the impact challenge after the first one I took it home and I kept breaking my home record and so every other impact challenge that I entered I want them all I had to agree to come late or register my my my strikes late so everybody gets to spend their money and I could you know register one punch and one kick and then take the thing home so that that taught me a great deal and that's one of those things that wouldn't I've brought it I would bring the bag to class and women with really good technique we're hitting better than bodybuilders who threw all this effort there that just dissipated all right so this is another reason to instruct you on how to punch correctly and strengthen your supportive muscles and your joints everything so you can deal with the force that your body is bringing right so that's that's very important because you can hurt yourself if you don't know how to do that now if you need to wrap your hands do so if you see never back down three there's a there's a little part where I talk about wrapping your hands because a lot of people don't learn how to punch correctly I've never had to wrap my hands one day and I've never had a risk of any kind of you know hand injury and striking and I've I've been striking for all my life so again those those things that I've talked about learning the proper fist learning how to get your your forearm to secure the rest of your punch is very important take your time anything full blast at first we strike again like the arrow we want our punch our elbow and our two knuckles to travel in the same path okay our strikes should be at the end of our rotation all right a lot of people will strike like this all right so this is not that utilizing my hip and the ground I wanted in my strike by crack this slowly here see my elbow in my fist going the same direction now this major differences I want to bring my elbow not here but here lock it into my body there is something that you might have seen a lot of my martial arts out there you seen Bruce Lee do this you see him doing that this is a very important aspect to traditional martial arts sorry I can go too well start from white crane way back then but locking this my arm my whole arm is starting from here to here not from here this could be resisted this is not nearly as strong is that now my body's locked into this very much like a crane not this kind of crane but a crane that lifts high heavy objects there is a counterbalance okay there is a counterbalance that roots that crane into the ground not here if a crane had to lift something heavy here it come right it has to be here right have somebody resist your arm this is a go to practice where you lock in here so now my punch starts here to here not just here all right that's another little tidbit you see Bruce Lee doing that that's what that's about so I want to turn and my blow is at the end of my turn whoa these mechanics everything should have a half turn all right another reason not to start stop here because I'm open here I'm open okay I punch like this I'm open you can see where you can hit I'm here you barely can my jaw is protected by my shoulder and I've utilized turning of my hip that's the power that's where the power comes from look at any baseball player what's that that's where the power is coming from the hip rotation Golf the hip rotation punching the hip rotation just like the shotput if I flared my arm out like this my shot puts landing about two feet short of my best all right so that's one aspect now here's another is it a simple and very low-budget way to practice proper technique this is just a hanger all right I just made a loop because what I want you to do is know how to punch straight your arm through straight and coming straight back that technique is very important that each travel straight because what happens when we do things fast our elbows will flare out then making this impossible to go straight I'd have to then do this okay but with my weapon straight like an arrow I should punch straight that arrow goes in and up this

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Length: 14min 30sec (870 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 14 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/mma_boxing_wrestling]

I'm with the others. In 14 minutes he basically said make a tight fist, line up your elbow with your fist, rotate your torso and hit with good posture. Super basic information that could have been covered in 2 minutes or less. And he doesn't get into any meaningful detail on any of those things, plus he left out a few major details for improving power. He realistically spent more time flexing for the camera than explaining proper technique.

Also, his point at the beginning that a hook can't hit as hard as a straight is definitely not true. It's gonna vary based on body type. Some guys hook way harder than they can throw a straight punch, specifically guys with very good external rotation mobility in their hips but poor internal rotation, as an example.

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Respectfully, and I may get downvoted like crazy for this, but looking at videos of Michael Jai White explaining punching power is a bit like looking at videos of Jim Parsons explaining how to split an atom.