Is it necessary to pivot foot when throwing a cross?

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I think trainers avoid teaching a full pivot at first while doing drills that involve crosses in order to teach balance in stance and movement first. Some fighters tend to throw arm punches, and others seem content to simply twist their hips without moving the back foot, for whatever reason. I believe, as is generally recommended, that if you want to deliver your power properly, you have to pivot that back foot in order to get full rotation and weight transfer into the snap of your cross.

 

I always pivot on my back foot.

 

you use the pivot to actually keep balance, throwing a far cross without pivoting will put all ur weight forward and lose balance

 

All the above

 

A 'pivot' can simply be a raise of the heel in some situations. Not every punch requires a full pivot, but yeah it's best to train to pivot every time so that it's automatic. Sometimes you won't do it though, who cares.

 

You should practise it until the technique is learnt. There are definitely times youll just lift your heel or hardly even that but the pivot is the correct standard way.

 

I disagree with some of what is said here, I would say not always.

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Obviously if being used as a power punch, then yes as arm puches won't do much in that regard.

I occasionally throw a lead right; a very effective punch if used sparringly and out of the blue instead of the ordinary jab. In order for it to have the same swiftness of a jab, you can't really get your body behind it or it loses the suprise factor.

Also, I find when parying down the opponents jab and coming over with the right, there is not much time to set as this is all done in one motion. If you pary down the jab, the load up the right hand, the opponent would just as easily beat you to the punch.

It is not really as black and white as some will have you believe, but I suppose most times you would pivot the back foot.

 

Pivot if it’s a haymaker...... don’t if it’s a softer straight.

 

That's a false dichotomy; pivot more often than not.

 

haymaker
Or a king-hit, make sure you pivot when you king-hit some dogg

 

I meant the polar opposite of the right straight from an orthodox stance numnut.

 

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one you throw are cross with a pivot 10,000 times then you can vary it with both piviot and no piviot but the piviot will have more power Michael Olidajai says a similar thing too