I'm talking about MY shoulder, not my opponent. It's kinda weird though. After lifting some weight, doing some sit-ups, and about 100 push-ups, I start put my gloves on and do the heavy bag and shadow boxing. Here's how it turns out to be: WITH gloves: shadow boxing is perfectly normal, but then when I hit the heavy bag, my left hooks kinda hurt my shoulder just a little :-( WITHOUT gloves: I thought I somehow injured myself, so I took my gloves off, and the weirdest thing is that nothing happens when I throw the left hook to the heavy bag or in the air :huh NO HURT AT ALL:admin Why is that? is this something serious or it's nothing to worry about? or doing push-ups prior practice has something to do with it? (I'm a beginner) Thanks :bbb
Are you really thowing a left hook or are you "slapping"? A properly thrown left hook is going to come from the movement of the left foot, left leg and left side of the hip. The shoulder should not really move too much at all. You can probably find several tutorial videos on the subject. But to give you a really brief instructional on the left hook watch the original Police Academy movie. The scene where the little nerdy guy with the broken collarbone punches the scumbag, that's actually a pretty good left hook. Because the character has a broken collarbone his arm is imobolized in a cast that has his arm set in a left hook position. He punches the scumbag by turning his left foot, left leg and left side of his hip. The audience laughed at it but little did they know, that's the proper way to throw a left hook.
That's a very astute observation. I wanna look it up now, to see for myself. Without seeing Mahtrang's hook, I might agree. It might have everything to do with your form, especially since you said you're a beginner. Hooks and uppercuts are deceivingly hard punches to throw as a beginner, and there's 101 ways they can go wrong. No way to really tell without seeing it for ourselves. Your coach is the best person to help you. We can do very little to help unless you have time to post a video.
