Link between Athleticism and foot/hand speed?

while i do think hand/foot speed comes naturally, i don't think it has anything to do with athleticism. sugar ray leonard said in an interview that he basically sucked at most sports. marciano was a natural athlete, who was not blessed with speed, but could hit like a mule.

 

Is it nature or nuture, great subject.

 

Of course, people who have fast hands would have more fast twitch fibres so they would be blessed with an advantage in speed and power. I don't really understand what you are trying to say, a person who is fast is athletically gifted.

 

I think there's link but nature works in funny ways in that naturally athletic people are born with great vehicles to learn the sport but people who have to work for it learn a whole differant book on being a fighter. For some reason I'm thinking about Marciano.

 

I had a Fighter, who was tested by the Sports Council and was found to have the fastest reflexes ever tested 1/6000th of a second. Yet He was the slowest in the gym as regards speed.

 

Not too sure about that. I am considered to be very athletic.

Complete half marathons and 10 mile runs, play football (soccer) and in almost every sport i compete in am not the best but am one of the best.

When boxing my reactions are very quick to defend punches, but my hand speed is very slow, however my footspeed and general movement is very good. Its just my slow hands that annoy me!!

I hope this helps. There is probably a link between the two, but there are always going to be exceptions to every rule.

 

I'm really quite unathletic and am a slow sprinter, have slow reactions when I've been tested, clumsy with poor balance and rubbish at most sports......

However I have pretty fast hands and feet for a middleweight and am known for having good footwork. It's pretty confusing.

Calzaghe said in his book that he wasn't good at football because he was a slow sprinter, yet he's one of the fastest fighters in recent years.

 

hmm interesting subject. I would consider myself now an athlete to some degree. Everything i do sports wise these days im generally the fittest and most athletic out of the people i know ( not that that is hard ) but you get the idea. my point is throughout my teens i was lazy overweight slightly hated sports and sucked at everything physical. I was the geeky kid in the P.E class lol. I was however as a young kid (under 10) very athletic lol so am i natural athlete or did it take 3+ years of training and experimenting to get where i am?

P.s im not saying im the best boxer far from it im a novice. But i am the fittest one of if not the most athletic guy in our gym.

Its pretty interesting subject. like scrap said is it nature or nurture!

 

It plays a aprt I think. Roy Jones had amazing speed because of his athleticism.

However Calzaghe was no natural amazingly fast athelete, but if you look at how he trained (punching bags mentally fast) it gave him very fast hands.

 

You can't deny athleticism plays a part in being quick but after all boxing is a sport. All the athleticism in the world won't help someone who can't adapt to the flow of an experienced opponant.

 

So is it that some peope are mentally more adept to picking it up and thus follows athleticism lol another spanner in the works :nut

 

athletes are athletic due to their speed, skills, control, power, strength etc in any sport. Of course an athlete will have faster hands than the average joe. you become athletic through training and practice.

 

It depends on what sport theyre an athlete in. Id imagine throwing sports would put out athletes with faster hands, ruuning=faster feet, etc. Soccer would put out more guys with fast feet. Baseball would put out more guys with fast hands. Tennis would put out more guys with power and lateral movement.