Increasing Recovery Speed

[Brokenmace]

Hi, everyone. I've been practicing the straight lead for a while, but still have trouble recovering to bijong with any kind of fluid speed. I have a very powerful punch, but this is little good without proper recovery and follow up. Does anyone have any suggestions on drills/tips/tricks related to recovering from an attack?

I appreciate any feedback!

[Fighter]

TIPS

Here are some tips

TIP ONE: Place some small weight in your hand only 500 g or so and punch your fist should kind of snap back after you swing.

TIP TWO: Buy some wrist weights, wear them everywhere, to bed while training everywhere.

TIP THREE: Keep a consious effort on how your hand is snapping back, and modify where it is due.

Hope this helped and good luck,

[Brokenmace]

Nice!

Thanks a bunch, Fighter. I use similar training for guard indurance (but slower punching with heavy weights), so I don't lower my hands when I'm tired. I didn't think to use lighter weights to punch faster with, for some reason. This should help a lot.

[Fighter]

COOL

Im glad Im helping people. Thats what I love to do. Let me know how your training worked out. OK

PS

Any one else got some queries.

[doubleouch]

If your jab is coming back to the guard position slowly try following up with a cross. This will bridge that time gap and not allow your opponent to capitalize on the timing.

[StraightBlaster]

What i did to learn recovery time is i would extend my punch and hold it there. Then i would yank it back as fast as possible. I wouldn't worry about the punching out part, just put it there. after awhile i could yank it back pretty fast. then my punches became like two different moves. a punching move, and a yanking back move. then after some more practice they blended together and my punch was fast as hell. Hope that makes sense

[Fighter]

Weights

Incorperate weights into StraightBlaster's training as well to give you some extra speed.

[Brokenmace]

Sorry, and thanks!

I was away at a family reunion last week (BIG family -- hundreds came to the first one) I wasn't around a computer, but I appreciate your responses.

Those were all great suggestions, and they got better with each post. I've been doing some speed work with light weights, like Fighter suggested, and I'll incorporate the followup-cross and the snap-back with weights, like Straightblaster said, to see if I can speed up my improvement (which has already been noticable -- my snap-backs already feel more solid and swift). Thanks a bunch, guys!

[StraightBlaster]

Let me know if it helps you. good luck!

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

I hear alot of advocates for that method and lot of naysayers too. The naysayers say it ****s with your shoulders in the long term.

Just what I've been hearing.

[Brokenmace]

Yes, I think some one around here said that a while back. You have to be careful with heavy weights, but if 500g weights are too much, then any number of bulky martial artists would be having the same trouble, absent any weight training. I could be getting my physics wrong though. But thanks for the warning: I can't whine to ayone if I screw up my shoulders.

[Fighter]

Tips

Just make sure to warm up and stretch very well. And get atleast 8 hours sleep to allow your body to heal.

You shouldn't have any problems so long as you dont over do it.