More Important? Height or Reach?

The guy on the previous page (that would be me) has a Masters in physiology, and actually studied this in college. How 'bout you?

It's also common sense. Punches get their power from your legs.

 

Roach

 

money. at the end of the day this is the question you have to answer.. are all your **** paid for? i rest my case. 41 and 0 baby

 

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Punches get power from legs, but punching up takes away power from punch thats a fact!!!

 

Please explain how in the hell that's meant to work? If the power is being generated from the ground the less the chain of energy deviates the more energy will be maintained, if you're punching down your power is being sacrificed to an extent. That's a fact.
It's like saying that an olympic weightlifter would be generating more power if after he snatched it he then threw it down at you than when he propelled it up with his legs. It's ridiculous.
Punching down would only help if you're just throwing arm punches, due to gravity.

 

You can get a better wave of movement from toe to knuckle if you angle your punch slightly down rather than slightly up, thus generating more power. It's not like the head is going to be at chest or even chin height unless there is a drastic height difference, anyway.

 

How can punching down generate more power when a smaller man is getting leverage from the floor?

The only advantages punching down, as far as tall fighters go imo, is that maybe you hit the guy with a punch he doesn't see whilst he's trying to close the gap, or that when you do throw, when your punches land, they can land at the point of the chin cause your chopping down, ALA Tommy Hearns.

 

It's regarding the wave of movement, the wave loses momentum if the arm is angled upward but continues it through if the arm is angled downward.

 

Thats highly arguable, and it's all depending on technique.

Most fighters punch harder with their overhand kinghit.

 

it has been demonstrated and verified in a show that punching upward produces much less power than downward. i forgot what show it was but they did tests on a fighter using sensors and stuff.

i guess it has something to do with gravity and that you're expending energy pushing your whole arm against it. and vice versa, gravity works with you when you throw downward compounding to the impact.

 

That is if your throwing straight punches, anything coming around the sides is gonna be much harder because the leverage you can generate from shifting your weight onto either leg and driving from the floor.

 

I dont buy it, how did they do the test, using two fighters? how could they be certain they carry the same amount of power, how could they know whether they're using their technique adequately to generate the power? As far as specific tests go, if aint being done between two fighters, then its irrelevant, as its not replicating the actual thing.

 

Its simple commonsense imo. When you throw a right hand, the weight is auto distributed onto the left side of your body, meaning all the power you have is in your left thigh, now if your target his up high, it seems it might be easier to drive off the left leg and ark the left hook toward the chin of a taller fighter, where as if you reverse this situation, the taller fighting trying to lower his left hook must lose power imo.

Uppercuts go without saying.

 

from what i remember, it was a single person doing different punches on a target and they did multiple attempts and used the average.

here's my guess.. imagine an arm and fist falling freely on it's dead weight on your face from a height. that alone adds up to the force you are exerting when you punch. whereas when you punch upward, you spend energy just to get you arm in a higher position alone.

the difference may not be that huge but imagine doing it multiple times if you have to constantly keep punching either upward or downward.