What are they doing to generate that type of power and speed. My cousin has seen some pro's train. He saw Cotto train and said the guy has to go half speed in sparring so he doesn't absolutely wreck everybody. If he doesn't he just plows through guys. He's also seen Pacquiao train a few times. He even saw him training back in the day. It was the Solis or 2nd Barrera fight camp he doesn't remember which one for sure. He said he was hitting the heavy bag so viciously he thought the thing was going to bust open. And I'm sitting there listening to him going "WTF, break the heavy bag". Meanwhile he's telling me this with a straight face. I fight as an amateur and a lot of times I try to replicate this. I pump myself up and go in thinking I'm going to tear the other guys head off. But I just cannot generate that type of power. Nobody really seems to be able to except these pro guys.
Years and years of fighting and practice and putting that training to work. Plus these guys are not your average dude they are gifted mofo built to fight.
A lot of it has to do with weight distribution on your feet depending on your stance and putting your entire body behind it, not just your arm. Center your weight so you don't lose balance, bend at the knees slightly, get your lead foot in place, turn your shoulder with the punch and make sure you get full extension of your arm when you're throwing it, (depending on the type of punch you're throwing) with your whole force of your body behind it. Don't throw only your arm, you've got to get your lower and upper body behind it. Also punch through your target, don't stop at the target, keep going, don't pull the punch at the last second. I'm sure someone else can explain it better. But this ain't bad for 3 in the morning from a non boxer. Good enough.
1. PED's - they take whatever they can get away with, and drugs that mimic the known drugs. 2. They're in the pros, there's less emphasis on 'pointscoring to win' and more emphasis on 'outpoint by fighting', thus the fighting element skewers your output towards a higher number of power punches. You train to sit on your punches more and set up your game so as to get the most of these punches. 3. Technique, practice makes perfect. A lot of amateurs have very incomplete games and haven't got strong technique, there are even things we can criticise about Pacquiao and Cotto but they are at the very top where technique is concerned. It's in their memory to land a great shot - kind of like how Cristiano Ronaldo is able to score headers in pitch black. It's embedded in their memory to be able to exert the correct physics.
Good post. Beat me to the punch. And I would also like to add that the difference between the guys someone like Cotto is sparring and dominating has a lot to do with the skill level. Since he is so much better than them he finds and creates many more opportunities than them to fully plant his feet and lay devastating shots.
Technique, and channeling whatever rage surely exists within them in order to have decided to make a living attempting to short-circuit the brains of their fellow man.
Crucial. You can be a successful boxer of the point-scoring ilk without it, but if you want to pack a wallop that will leave guys rubbing their jaw weeks later and thinking "I don't ever want to fight him again!!" you need to have a deep well of intense, unresolved anger far beyond what a normal person carries around with them.
lol, very few people know and understand that. They're the same people that don't know when to quit messing with someone, next thing you know, they're being hospitalized for a fractured skull or some other..
One more observation. I seen a show a couple years ago that said there is technically no difference between the strength of an average chimpanzee and the average man. The difference comes from the fact that if you **** a chimp off there is no regulator there. They go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye and do things that humans can only do if a life depended on it. In the show it talked about a scrawny teenage boy lifted a muscle car off his unlce that fallen on him while he was working under it. It said what made this possible was the pure reaction without thought from the boy, it had to be done, so he did it. Humans are capable of extraordinary feats of strength but are trained to use our mind first. Superhuman is there for us to use but it has to be unlocked somehow for us to use it.
If we're talking about the best of the best, world champions and the like, in any sport, we're talking about some seriously freakish individuals.
Application of technique, timing (the worse punches are the ones you don't see coming), actual possessing the potential to have power in your punches.