Roy started an other thread on the same topic…
But I will try to answer Alpha Dog question…
Punching a wall bag will not develop more power to your punch.It will condition your hands so you can punch harder without damaging them!The hands (and your mind! ) get used to the impact and gradually can endure more.
Good technique gives power and the bag condition the tool.
Old Jong
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I have to agree with Roy D. on this one. The wall bag absolutely does improve your punching power, unless you’re not using it right. If you’re using it right, you will be able to tell. If you can’t tell, then you’re not using it right. If you are already having trouble with being too tense though, I would stick to air punches.
I gave up a whole dollars worth on this one.
Thanks Cobra!
Power is something that you can train, but very difficult to develop, since power is a derivative of mass and acceleration. Usually, due to mega tension, many people hinder their power. Many people mistake things by saying you can develop power, the main way you can do that is by simply increasing your mass. But to utilize more power one needs to train to relax, so that tension does not hinder your acceleration. Thus allowing one to use their full inbred power.
Hope this helps!!!
I have filled mine with rice.
When you actually hit something, all of your energy goes into that “thing”. You are totally relaxing your bicep (in theory) and you are going for it 100%.
When doing air punches, you need to use your bicep to pull the punch and so you don’t hyperextend your elbow joint. People often mistake this as a “powerful snap at the end of the punch”. It is not. You need to actually hit things to learn how to deliver your power into and THROUGH the object you are hitting.
It repulses me how many wing chunners never actually hit anything at all, and don’t spar.
Sorry.
Punching Power
Hi,
I do karate and we learn to give our punches extra speed –> power but using hip rotation, my karate teacher told me once that kung fu people dont do this but do lots of arm exercises to gain power, what kind of stuff do you do to give your punches more power?
huh?
Your instructor must be talking about the CHAIN PUNCHing in most CMA arts. Yes they don’t have alot of power but it’s more to set up an opponent for a trap or get close for elbows, knees, sweeps etc( Heavy artillery ).
Use boxing drills…they seem to be modern and updated! Not really rocket science.
i had to read that a couple times man.
i hit the bag a lot.
some of the mixed martial arts guys might say i’m full of ****, but i have also had a lot of results by going through all of my movements very very slowly. just repete any movement or set staying very relaxed and extremely focused. the theory behind going slow, the way i understand it, is that you are giving your body much more time to internalize and perfect the movements. it improves your form, makes you more relaxed with the movement, and gives you the chance to feel what your entire body should be doing behind the strike. i have had awesome results in both speed and power training this way.
i have no idea why your teacher told you kung fu guys don’t rotate their hips for power. wing chun guys don’t (as far as i know), but every other style i have heard about uses hip rotation behind a lot of their strikes. in addition to hip rotation some styles will use sinking, raising, and coiling power as well. i think there are a bunch of other types of jings, but those are the main ones to my knowlege.
We put our hips into our punches to give them more power. (surprised?) It helps a lot to have the foot unweighted on the same side that you’re punching, so that the hip is free to drive the punch. And it helps a lot to be relaxed; tension will slow down any moves.
Which way did you rotate your hip? Did it rotate around your vertical axis, like you were spinning, or did it rotate around the horizontal axis, like you were doing a pelvic tilt on that side? Both at once is a better way to describe it. Hip goes toward the target.
In Xingyi, ,Bagua, and Tai Chi, our school teaches the rotation of the waist for whole body power in the punches.
BTW, you know in junior high, when you used to trade punches with a guy to the arm? You know, one guy stands there and lets the other slug him as hard as he wants, then they take turns until one has had enough? I learned from a karate book a straight power punch, where you rotate the hips into the punch, while turning over the fist. I blasted the **** out of everybody using that one. Nobody could beat me. Pretty stupid, but at the time it seemed pretty mature!!! The point is, if you do it right, your Karate punch can deliver quite a viscious blow!
The power comes from the ground and is magnified through the knees, hips, waist and shoulders - it explodes out of the hand.
Strikes can also be performed with minimal hip movement using tension in the waist (a lot like coiling a spring). Maybe that’s what your instructor was getting at.
If you wanna find out for yourself, join in on a few CMA classes - it can’t hurt (well unless you get punched in the head). 
What GDA said about doing your form very slowly with complete intent and concentration. That and well like I said in another post, use steel rings, oh and good body mechanics of course.
PuNcHiNg PoWeR
Right wing chun tech headz, listen up.
i need your help on puching power, wing chun styleé.
i study wing chun, but, i am starting to wonder how to increase my punching power by using my whole bodyweight right? except, without leaning forward too much and becoming off balance, i.e. how do you punch using your whole body weight whilst maintaining 60-40 stance (arrow walk/ circle step)??? (mainly straight punches, u know, chain-punch type)
any advice would be much appreciated.
cheers
thehza
PuNcHiNg PoWeR
i need your help on puching power.
i study wing chun, but i am starting to wonder how to increase my punching power by using my whole bodyweight? except, without leaning forward too much and becoming off balance, i.e. how do you punch using your whole body weight whilst maintaining 60-40 stance (arrow walk/ circle step)??? (mainly straight punches, u know, chain-punch type)
Now if you don’t study wing chun, don’t bail on me, i still am interested to know the concept of powerful punch techniques for whatever punch…
any advice would be much appreciated.
cheers
thehza
heya at the gym i train at , im taught to keep the weight 50/50, but we do lots of pad and bag work.
Jack Dempseys book might give you some ideas:
Within the context of a Ving Tsun training methodology, the way to increase your punching power is to practice BiuKwan, BiuKwan, and more BiuKwan.
You have working on all the prerequisite steps to prepare yourself for this moment, right?
To increase your punching power, start by rotating your sternum. If you are punching with your right, and have your left foot forward, your sternum will be at the right angle. When you punch (with the right) turn your sternum to the opposite side.
As this improves, you’ll need to start using your hip. But, this will do for now.
Also, start this exercise program;
http://www.noweightsworkout.com/exercises/armgrabs.php
I hope this helps.
thank you kindly dudes,keep the info comin’
hza