 Hey it's the Wing Chun Kid here on the Wing Chun Kid channel and in this video we're gonna show you the three tips on how to punch properly. Very important to punch properly because you need to have safety in order to prevent injury and also you want to do what Bruce Lee said right punch with power, speed, accuracy and non-telegraph ability. Alright so we're gonna show you how to do just that with these three tips here we go. Alright so we have a 150 pound bag here and it's one of the heavier bags you can get so I'm just gonna demonstrate how to get nice punch okay. What I do there I'm gonna show you five tips of how to make your punch stronger. Welcome to how to punch properly. Now before we begin we're gonna talk about safety in training. A lot of people break their hands and then or they cut their hands and it takes a long time to heal and then just downs your training time so make sure that you have the proper equipment. Here's some things that you might consider you want to get if you want to start training how to punch properly. You can start with beginners can start with a nice heavy glove like a 16 ounce scalp like this which has a lot of padding a lot of protection so even if you punch your bag you're not going to hurt your hands or your fingers as easily okay. Once you get comfortable with this you can graduate to a something with less padding like the M&A glove like this which has less padding and it still protects your knuckles. Alright the easiest thing that I see from beginners they punch stuff is they start to break the skin on your knuckles and that's very common and this doesn't hurt that much it just the skin comes off and then it bleeds and it's just annoying because you have to wait until it heals before you can train again right so just protect it at first and build your knuckles up slowly before you can do bare knuckle punching. I've been training for years and not let reach knuckles and it doesn't doesn't break alright because we have to train for years to get that alright so after that you can graduate and do bare knuckles but don't punch that hard alright so that's some safety precautions you need to be aware of before you start training also you need to have good equipment have a bag that doesn't rip your skin especially if you're doing bare knuckle training alright this one's a little bit more smoother surface so it doesn't actually rip your hands out there's some bags that are rough and they easily can easily rip your hand you can train with the bob the bob is also pretty rough on your hand so I suggest another thing you do is to wear just a bicycle club or a weight lifting club after the MMA club something thinner after that before you go into bare knuckle alright so those are some safety precautions and make sure you have that in mind before you train. The first three things you need to know in order to deliver a proper punch is your stance so how do you know what's a good stance well here's the thing that you can do to make sure that you have a proper stance put your feet together first like this side by side then pivot on your heel 90 degrees then pivot your toe then pivot on your heel and then adjust it 45 degrees a little bit and then bounce around a little bit make it feel comfortable okay so what you're doing is just doing one two three and then 45 degrees and that should be nice shoulder width and that should be a very comfortable boxing stance all right we adopted more narrow stance for street fighting because of things that might be slippery on the ground like soup cans or things that might make you slip and fall so you don't want to have super wide stance like that which will cause slipping or grass is slippery too or dirt so you want to have a little bit more narrow stance all right now you should be able to squat up and down very comfortably in this position okay why stance important is because when you're delivering a punch most of your power comes from your legs and from the ground not actually from your upper body so with a good strong stance you're gonna be able to deliver the power and technique that you need okay once you got your stance ready now you want to have your hands in the right position we're gonna have this in a defensive position we're gonna first of all imagine you're putting on a backpack so you round up the back muscles you can round them out like this okay this creates a curve in your back that allows you to deliver stronger punches you want to put your fists near your chin to protect them and your elbows near the ribs to protect those as well okay so this is your stance once again 1 2 3 45 degrees a little bit check your stance by going up and down should be comfortable to do a squat then bring your hands up like this wrap it around round out your back fist to your chin and your elbows nice and close to your ribs so that's your fighting stance the next important part about delivering the proper punch is rotation what I mean by rotation is the rotation of your whole body coordinated from your feet out to the ends of your knuckles in order to create one cohesive movement all right so we're gonna start the rotation from my toe and ankle imagine you're putting out a cigarette but with your toe that's the motion that you want okay next we're gonna rotate our hips so just imagine you're swinging your hips like this okay and then after that we're gonna rotate our shoulders okay throw out your shoulder like this now we combine three of them slow motion you look like this ankle hips shoulder and then the shoulder will punch out the the fist so most of the power is actually generated with your lower body and then connect it through your waist and deliver through your arm so that actually your arm should be relaxed and the power is coming from the legs so from this angle you see it's gonna be this one this one this one all right so we're actually doing a punch okay that's the kind of speed that you want all right so feet hips shoulders and then this should be relaxed and straight so so we've talked about the proper stance the proper body rotation now let's talk about the proper hand position it's very important because a lot of people in street fights don't have a proper hand position and they end up breaking the wrist or breaking their hands in the street fight and it's over all right even boxers have to protect their hands with wraps so that they don't get their hands broken and they even wear gloves right so proper hand position is first of all close your close your fingers like this then tuck in your thumb right so close your fingers and tucking in thumb make sure your thumb is outside your fingers not inside your fingers okay make sure your thumb is not open like this because if you hit something you might get caught and easily break your thumb you can either tuck it in here some people punch like this this is fine or you can tuck it in here next is the angle of your wrist when it meets the contact point now imagine this is the wall all right you don't want to hit the target with the angle with your wrist up because that will easily break your wrist or with wrist down because that would break your wrist too so make sure that this is nice and straight so that it hits nice and straight without overextending your wrist your contact point should be your knuckles either these two knuckles or these three knuckles right at the end okay that should be your contact point make sure that contact point is not these front knuckles but it's these knuckles because this is where you're strong and this is where you're weak all right so you're punching you got a rotation you got your stance and then you got a right hand position a nice effective and proper punch hey thanks for watching this video on how to punch properly if you like this video 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