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catapult
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Re: Vertical punches??

I’m no instructor but it seems to me it’s all about the mechanics of how things hook together in your elbow. If you do a slo-mo punch with your arm and hand relaxed, your fist will start out nearly vertical and rotate more the more you extend your arm. Short punches will be almost vertical and long ones will rotate more.

I don’t know how to teach it but there’s no “rotating the punch for extra torque” as Eli mentioned. What worked for me was just concentrating on keeping the elbow down with good body rotation and keeping my arm relaxed until the last instant — letting the power come from speed rather than tensing up my arm trying to add power. Being a carpenter when I was younger helped. You can hit a nail a lot harder with a relaxed arm than with a tight one.

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