Can You Develop Punching Power?

Punching Hard has very little to do with Genetics.

 

I tend to disagree, but maybe that's because I'm 6'1 180 lbs, been boxing for three years, and don't think I punch that hard!

 

Goat, I know where youre coming from :yep., but science is starting to come up with facts, to be honest when i 1st heard about it my reaction was bollocks , but ill listen. It seems everything comes from your surroundings and ones own personal perception of your enviroment, Pscyhcodinamics and conciousness. You can get a family of Boxers Brothers or Fathers, non are the same, its how the person adaptability and the want to do, there thing, this could take for ever, but I hope you get the point. :good

 

Got a bit of time . what perfects skill and punching hard is a skill set. balance, coardination, timing and perfect practice, that and Time give good Neurophysiological pathways for the body to adapt too, and learn and perceive the skill set. I find it hard to reason with the findings, as regards circumstantial, and enviremental issues. But given time they say 10,000 hours of it, it will come atsch

 

Can you develop home run hitting ability? Of course you can. Timing and technique are everything. Just remember thought that your neuro-physical pathways have been doing the same thing over and over for a long time. YOu need to break out of these old pathways somehow. Keep researching, keep trying new things. Watch tapes yada yada yada.

One thing that may help refine technique is to very slowly go through the movements of the punch, this helps build up the neuro-physical connection. Once the mind-body has practiced this pathway thousands of times, the same punch at full speed should travel in the same motion.

 

Sorry mate I really should have read your response. I agree very strongly with what you have written.

 

Oh and hopefully without sounding too new agey - mental rehearsal. Imagine what it would be like to throw perfectly timed, powerful shots. Do it as you're going to sleep or whenever you have some free time maybe 10 mins a day.

 

You can get stronger and perhaps more importantly improve your form.
For the most part you either have it or you don't. You can improve on it but your not going to go from feather fissted to knockout king.

 

There are many cases where it has Happened. Tommy Hearns springs to mind

 

As 90% of a punch is in technique, sure you can. And on top of that you can train to get stronger. But there are always genetic limitations.

 

id say it can be developed.

theres some people you look at and think they are just genetically made to punch....but there may be aspects of their life you just dont think or know about that might have given them the ability.

take bob fitzsimmons for example, perhaps developed it by accident through years of hammering away at the avil working as a black smith, putting all his weight into the tip of the hammer and swining it down with pin point accurecy....or maybe he was just born with it.

 

The formative years are very important as regards developing skills.