That's your form bubba. If your kinematic chains are pure the energy can't be absorbed by your hand bones.
Big wrists are very good also. Here’s an article about boxing and wrist size. [url]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.badlefthook.com/platform/amp/2011/3/15/2051585/boxing-science-how-manny-pacquiaos-body-has-tricked-analysts-and[/url]
It's all about bone structure alignment bud. You know how kinetic energy is transferred and what a kinematic chains looks like because you've seen a Newton's Cradle, one'uh them desk toys that's got four or five steel balls on strings lined up so's when you swing the first one and it collides with the center ones they stay still and the last one goes flying until gravity sends it back and it repeats the process until all the energy has been used. So basically what I'm saying is line your bones up from foot to knuckle so that energy transfers through rather than is absorbed by them. Think about the structural integrity of your bones for a second. I mean where it's strongest due to its shape vs where it's weakest due to its shape. When you want to break a pencil you don't stab it into something harder because you know the pencil will only break at the tip and all you'll really achieve is a dull pencil not broken, you break a pencil by turning it sideways and putting pressure to its middle section. Most of your skeletal structure is the same way, the bones that are rather pencil shaped share similar structural properties. If you were building a Newton's Cradle out of pencils or femurs or metacarpals or let's be absurd and say battering rams you wouldn't line those rams up so's they hit any other way but end to end right? You'd want the rams in position to ram each other rather than smack each other with their length. You have to do the same with every bone at every joint because once that energy hits something, Newton's Third Law, that something hits back and if you have a weakness in your kinematic chains it will find it. Since your body isn't as simple as a few bars, some strings and some balls, it takes a little more thinking to imagine than a Newton's Cradle, but you can feel what I'm talking about if take stance and you put your fist against a wall and push your ring knuckle in like you're trying to bury it into that wall. Edit - Because I have no faith in my ability to describe a cradle: This content is protected ---- I should say, I'm not a trained fighter, I ****ed about in my youth but not much, this is coming from the perspective of a medical professional not a fighter or trainer. I make prosthetics. Don't mistake me I'm 100% on this I'm just saying is you hear it described using vastly different terms, no kinematic/kinetic nonsense, it's probably worth picking up whatever boxing calls energy, kinetic, and kinematic. Also, not to be a stickler but I should point out I use the term energy everytime because I am actually being specific and do mean the scientific definition of energy and everything that comes with that in reference to terms like power or force.
I have extremely small wrists, maybe 6" and when I used to bang the heavybag, even with lrptecice wraps and gloves would consistently sprain my wrists. Not meant for punching at all
I have hands made for hitting. I have been doing conditioning since I was 14ish and my knuckles look like it. I wish I could figure out how to post a picture for yall, but I remember seeing beterbiev and not being impressed with his knuckles. Mine are huge and dead. Conditioning of a lifetime or 20 or so years.
It depends honestly. Generally with a smaller woman it has less of an impact. It’s not just the length of the hands either, girth is also important. But if you don’t want to subject yourself to women below 5’4 then generally big hands are a bonus. I hope I answered your question but I feel it was better off to ask your parents or perhaps your sister. Maybe even Blizzy’s Mum.
Shorter hands often mean faster hands (Gary Russell Jr, Lomachenko, e.g.). But, at the same, longer hands are more powerful. Also, a boxer (well, if he's a good one) can hide behind the hands (behind the jab).
I doubt it has much impact on punching power but the one thing bigger hands give you is more durability. I'm a big unit, around 110kg and not fat with it. One thing i do have is tiny girly hands which is strange cos my love wrench is massive! I've been in a few scrapes over the years and i can tell you my hands are in bits, now i know i got these injuries fighting with the bare knuckle but I'm sure with big sturdy hands they would be in much better condition.
I'm 6'4" with hands to match and I never had a probelem with durability though I have meticulously conditioned my knuckles over the years for punching. Not enough boxers bring hand conditioning into their training.
According to Poe in Hard Times, big hands distribute the impact more making them less prone to breakage. According to Hope in Antman having the power of a 200lb man reduced to being distributed in fractions of an inch turns the punch into a bullet. Of course, Hollywood physics and physiology sucks. Tom Cruise riding a pressure wave from a bomb in Mission Impossible is B.S. and so is Steven Segal outrunning a trainwreck while inside the train. Probably still going to come down to acceleration + leverage = damage more than hand size.
Land your punches on the first two knuckles, that is the first thing I was taught, esp. in PKA kickboxing. Try it yourself, punch yourself in your head with the middle knuckle, then punch yourself in the head with all the width of your hand, it's like hitting someone with a wide surface, power not concentrated, but when you hit yourself with the middle knuckle, it's like getting hit with the end of a pool stick, try it, you will be surprised. Always keep your wrist straight, line it up like a rifle, do knuckle pushups, I have never had a broken hand, hold your fist tight, very tight at all times, lose hands are faster, but you lose power, if you keep working on tight hands, your speed will finally come back, you just have to get used to it.............it makes a huge difference. Words can't describe it well, it is best demonstrated. Same with wrists, keep them straight as the sight of a rifle, you won't get a broken wrist.................try it, it works..............