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at 10:25 is another one i try too from jeff... even though its a right hook..lol
left hook demonstration is around 12:22
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the left hook
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at 10:25 is another one i try too from jeff... even though its a right hook..lol
left hook demonstration is around 12:22
thats how most young fighters are taught how to throw the left hook when they start boxing. its an arm punch.
krackdagawd
Inspire.
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thats how i think most of you are throwing the left hook
the left hook generates power from the rotational momentum of the hips transferring the momentum that it generates through the arm and into the fist. there are two ways that you can rotate the hips to transfer the momentum it generates into a left hook in boxing. you can initiate the rotational momentum of the hips by introducing a turning force to it which you can create by pushing with the left side of the hip or by pulling with the right side of the hip. the right side of the hip has the greatest distance from the left hook which means that using it to generate rotational momentum can produce more torque for a left hook than the left side of the hip can. pulling with the right side of the hip maximizes torque which you are going to experience as a whipping feeling when you are throwing the left hook vs a pushing feeling when you are throwing the left hook. there are some interesting physics behind this but i won't talk about it here. you have to understand how torque works in different sports when you are swinging a bat or throwing something however most boxers are never taught about how torque works or know what torque is.
when you have generated rotational momentum of the hips you have to then transfer it into your arm. the rotational momentum of the hips is what causes the arm to start moving. the arm does not start moving on its own. therefore the arm actually needs to be behind the hips as it rotates. the rotational momentum of the hips pulls the arm and is what adds whip to your left hook. the arm has to be behind the hips as its rotating to create whip and an arm that is moving at the same time with the rotational momentum of the hips and not behind the rotational momentum of the hips, and therefore being pulled by it, won't whip.
nonito donaire generates rotational momentum of the hips, pulling the arm, creating whip
most fighters instinctively drag the arm back and out to cause the arm to be behind the hips as the hips are rotating to add whip. most trainers think this is some kind of error and constantly try to fix it. they have to constantly try to fix it because fighters are going to constantly try to do it. they do it because they are instinctively trying to add whip. when a trainer succeeds in supposedly fixing this he has successfully created an arm puncher.
you actually have to drag the arm back and out when you throw a left hook when you are fighting in a squared up stance or your left hook will not have any circular range on it. a long time ago fighters fought out of a very sideways stance. out of that stance the lead arm, the arm that throws the left hook, is already behind the hip, and therefore the fighters that used to fight out of that stance, fighters like jimmy mclarnin and mickey walker, don't have to drag the arm back and out to create whip when they throw the left hook. felix trinidad fights in a squared up stance and has to drag the arm back and out to throw the left hook to get it moving behind his hip. this is the way he has to create whip fighting from that squared up stance.
you can know that the rotational momentum of the hips has transferred into the arm because you are going to start feeling the arm being yanked on very hard as the hips rotate. the arm is now going to start moving with a lot of force. as the arm starts being pulled by the rotational momentum of the hips finish the movement by aggressively turning the arm into a hook and powering it through. the circular range of the left hook is going to vary on how far from you or how near to you what you are trying to hit is. you can connect with the palm down or with the palm facing you however i recommend connecting with the palm facing you because connecting with the palm down has a tendency to skim.
i didn't talk about things like foot placement because this is going to vary from fighter to fighter depending on the stance that fighter is fighting in. however whats constant is that body weight is always going to end over the right leg when you finish. fighters like tyson and frazier shift a majority percentage of their body weight over their left leg loading the left hook with body weight. the transfer of their body weight starting over the left leg and shifting and finishing over the right leg is what creates their punching power. that is to say what they are actually hitting you with is their body weight as it is being expressed by the transferring of it from the left leg to the right leg. this is why they had really powerful left hooks.
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HamAndEgger
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yuzo said it best in detail.
i was trained by mike moffa (of dierry jean fame) and he basically broke it down the same was yuzo did. one important thing to note about the left hook is that it, again as yuzo mentioned, generates force from the moment about the point of the hips. therefore the arm should act in a similar fashion to a whip with a hammer on the end of it. this will allow you to come over top of your opponents counter unlike that horrific demonstration by jeff mayweather up there. christ that shyt was like the stuff that the womens fitness boxing class was practicing.
the real question is yuzo, do you prefer palm parallel to the ground vs parallel to the body. im talking in regards to fist placement in relation to the movement of the arm angle.
i personally think the palm facing the floor works better for me as palm parallel to body has the opportunity to land awkwardly, promoting injury to the wrist.
i was trained by mike moffa (of dierry jean fame) and he basically broke it down the same was yuzo did. one important thing to note about the left hook is that it, again as yuzo mentioned, generates force from the moment about the point of the hips. therefore the arm should act in a similar fashion to a whip with a hammer on the end of it. this will allow you to come over top of your opponents counter unlike that horrific demonstration by jeff mayweather up there. christ that shyt was like the stuff that the womens fitness boxing class was practicing.
the real question is yuzo, do you prefer palm parallel to the ground vs parallel to the body. im talking in regards to fist placement in relation to the movement of the arm angle.
i personally think the palm facing the floor works better for me as palm parallel to body has the opportunity to land awkwardly, promoting injury to the wrist.
TheBeigeBomber
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try to do it like this.
try to do it like this.
foster had a good left hook. it had no body weight but he got some good whip on it. what made it devastating was that it was a counter. the way he knocked out quarry was the same way he knocked out tiger. the same way i guess he knocked out a lot of guys and it was the same way he got knocked out by joe frazier. that was how lucas matthysse knocked out lamont peterson. theres a saying in boxing that you should never hook with a hooker and they are talking about that counter. the left hook comes around your field of vision and not straight through it like a jab or a right hand and can blind side you and when you turn your hips to throw a left hook you don't see it coming and you turn into it creating a lot of shock.
you can counter a left hook like this or you can counter a left hook with a check hook.
the check hook is a kind of counter left hook that you throw as you are moving away from the punch that you're trying to counter by using your upper body and/or your feet to create seperation. when you are countering a left hook with your check hook try to understand where your head is when the left hook that you are countering is starting. when the left hook that you are countering is starting its going to go to that point in space and is therefore the same point in space that you are trying to move your head away from when you are creating seperation from it with your check hook.
take your finger or make an imaginary dot and put it on the point in space where danny's head is when erik's left hook is starting. erik's left hook is going to go that point in space as danny's head is going to move away from it by using his upper body to create seperation.
you can use your head to set the point in space that you want punches to go to
heres felix trinidad creating some seperation from a short left hook campas throws to the chest area that he set with his head
heres felix trinidad creating some seperation from a short left hook campas throws to the chest area that he set with his head
you can create seperation with your feet when you a counter a left hook with your check hook too. that was how floyd knocked out ricky hatton.
floyd creates seperation from the point in space where his head is when ricky's left hook is starting by moving out to his left away from it
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krackdagawd
Inspire.
I was telling Pat earlier how I went from struggle with the pull counter to finally getting it right. I've been drilling using that space between my chin and shoulder as the spot to the the shot go through like he said and it made things a ton easier. I feel like I should be paying breh for all this piff he gives us
Yuzo def deserves the Ring GOAT banner.
What I wonder is where @Yuzo gets all those sick GIFs I be likeI was telling Pat earlier how I went from struggle with the pull counter to finally getting it right. I've been drilling using that space between my chin and shoulder as the spot to the the shot go through like he said and it made things a ton easier. I feel like I should be paying breh for all this piff he gives us
Yuzo def deserves the Ring GOAT banner.
I wanna see a thread like this on the various forms of the jab