Punch Speed – Hit as Quick and as Hard as a Bullet
Make your hands like guns and let everybody “feel” your hit!
Punch Speed
Speed is one of your biggest weapons for the street fight. The speed with which you can come up with a plan, the speed of your reactions and of course, the speed of your own body movement.
If you can’t keep up in strength with your opponent, it is your speed that must fill the gab.
In this article I’m going to cover one for the subcategories of the body movement. To be precise – the punch speed. May be it is not general enough because since it is called just a punch speed, it affects the speed of all your hand attacks like chops, and other stuff.
You can train your speed punch in several ways.
1. punch speed exercise – Train your punch speed with weights.
Take one dumbbell in each hand and practice the shadow boxing. For more fun stand before the mirror and shadow punch your self. Perform the punching until you are exhausted enough so you can barely raise your hands.
This way your hands will get used to the weight and once removed, your punches will gain incredible speed. It is also a very good way to strengthen your hands and shoulders (mainly the whole upper body will gain more strength and flexibility) …you can gain incredibly strong speed punch with this one.
2. punch speed exercise – Speed punching drills.
Take some hitting point like Makiwara or heavy bag – simply something you can hit. Now perform the speed punch drills. First you start hitting one spot as fast as you can – one punch after another – until your muscles get tired. Now don’t stop punching, just take you time, punch slow and easy. After you gain a little strength back, start a new speed punch drill.
Repeat this until your body won’t let you to perform even one more speed punch drill.
The aim of both these speed punch exercises is that you have to exhaust your body till you got nothing left so it will need to improve. After some regeneration time perform these exercises again.
You can do them in rotations so your body won’t get used to one speed punch exercise so it won¨t have such effect.
Keep practicing and you will see that you punch speed will improve drastically.
Master of speed punching was no one other than Bruce Lee. He was a master of speed and that was the reason it was so hard to beat him. How do you want to hit something that is no longer there?
Improve your speed and try to keep up with Master Lee.
Now I would love to know what you think, fighters…
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