How to Develop Deadly Punching Power: Thunderstrikes

Grappling arts claim to rely on angles, technique, and leverage to achieve victory, but when you're in a real fight for your life, you want to be able to hit, and hit hard. In this video, master martial artist and world breaking champion Mike Reeves extracts the most combat-effective elements of his experience in the dojo and as a former corrections officer, combining them into a conditioning program that will teach you how to develop the one shot, one kill striking power that will give you the edge in the ring and on the street.

Using kettlebells, weight plates, and inexpensive items like cinder blocks, Reeves shows the muscle groups involved in the most street-effective strikes and how you can vastly increase your strength, toughness, and power to make every punch a knockout blow. Most fights are won after the first punch is thrown, so make your strikes fight-stoppers from the get-go.

Available now from the Paladin Press Professional Action Library: http://www.paladin-press.com/product/Thunderstrikes/Combat_Fitness

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More on Sensei Mike Reeves: He is a nine-time International Sport Karate Association World Karate Champion, as well as a four-time Guinness-certified world record holder in breaking. He has worked as a professional bodyguard as well as a martial arts instructor to key members of both local and federal law enforcement agency SWAT teams and other special operations units.

This man has the knowledge from experience. Pick up his DVD to learn his chosen methods.

[SenseiGrove]

i was expecting more about kinetic linking, throwing your hips over, pivoting the foot, and the difference between Wing Chun/JKD, Karate and Western Boxing punches... but i did like the overall teaching on the importance of fitness and muscular coordination and strength.

[PaladinPress]

@SenseiGrove Thank you for the comment SenseiGrove. The full-length DVD is no doubt more comprehensive than this short clip. This is a basic, fundamental lesson offered to generate interest in learning more about punching power from a four-time Guinness-certified world record holder in breaking.

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[AmidaWuji]

my qualm with this is that it emphasizes muscle over first developing correct structure and body mechanics. If you work on muscle alone you will be able to deliver a firm punch. But only so long as you stay strong. By the time you're 70 the effort wont amount to much, because muscle breaks down as the metabolism slows. CIP: Muscle needs to support correct structure, it should not be the other way round. Otherwise you are building sand castles.

[eggnoy]

dont forget the hips

[nevermoonawolf]

@SenseiGrove true i agree with you I honestly dont think this was helpful

[larcm3]

Good video. I'm trying to increase my punching power and this video was good.

[TroyRx]

so pretty much exercise and work your upper body

[Andrometus]

skip to 0:50 for talking