did you know that there's 13 different individual punches that you can learn now whether you're boxing or want to learn to protect yourself i recommend that you only work on five of these punches and that's what we're gonna go over on this video the five most basic punches but the most valuable punches all the eight punches way more advanced i'm gonna talk about them at the end of the video and teach you some of them so the first basic punch that you need to work on is the faint pivot hook that's a joke that's for
that advanced stuff at the end the first basic points that you should be working on is the most important point you're boxing and that is the straight lead hand we call that the jab or some people call it the number one now there's two ways that you can throw the jab the first way the most basic way is you're in your boxing stance here with the line in between your feet and all you're going to do is bring your lead hand all the way out all the way back slight turning your hip that turn your
hip gets the power into the punch so i'm here all the way out all the way back now if you notice when i'm throwing it i'm turning my hand at the end this actually makes your arm stronger than throwing it this way here so from your face all the way out all the way back now another important thing that you need to be doing when you're throwing this punch in any other punch is exhaling and staying relaxed so it'll look like this on the back now if you notice here when i'm throwing it i'm keeping
that right hand by me chin protecting myself with the non-punching hand now the other way to throw that jab is stepping with it so if i'm in this position here i'm going to step and throw it out now what this does this gets more power in the punch it's getting the momentum of your body weight behind the punch as you're throwing that jab but when you are stepping you kind of want to be stepping into range and then coming back with it you don't want to be stepping like lifting your foot like this what i
see sometimes or you do want to be stepping too far where you're really spreading your legs and you're punching like this no you want to be more slightly out of range and step into range and throw that jab now if you notice when i'm doing this the punch and the foot lands at the very same time as well i'm fully extending that lead hand throwing it all the way out and bringing it all the way back when you face each time i'm for us keeping that non-punching hand up the next punch we're going to work
on is the power punch this is with your dominant hand people call this the cross the two the back hand and this is a straight punch and the way we throw the number two it comes from your face it comes all the way out all the way back now if you notice when i'm throwing this punch i'm turning me hips i'm transferring the weight to my front foot that's getting my full body weight behind the punch i'm fully extending my arm i'm turning my hand at the end just like i was with the jab i'm
staying relaxed and i'm exhaling so make sure you're doing all of these things when you're throwing this too and this will really help generate that power and land that shot perfectly now the next one is the most awkward punch to throw this is the lead hook if you've net box before if you've got a little bit experience even if you've got a lot of experience this lead hook can be complicated and feel awkward when you're throwing it now it's best to really throw this off the one two because if you throw one two you're finishing
off with that weight on your front foot you're in the perfect position to throw that lead hook and to get power in this you really need to be transferring your weight from your front foot to your back foot so to get the weight on the front foot you would throw that to or you would slip right here that way it's there then from there we're going to turn and bring the weight to the back foot now you can through a lead hook on its own but it's very advanced so from here my weight's 50 50.
what i'm going to do is fire it out but here you're not in a great position to throw that hook unless you were putting that pivot on that we talked about at the beginning what we're going to talk about again at the end now a couple of things to think about when you are throwing this punch which is a great punch to know and everyone should know how to throw a hook is turning your hips if you don't turn your hips when you're throwing this punch you're going to get zero power in a look kind
of like like this but as soon as you turn your hips if you notice there the power increases now if you notice when i'm throwing this punch i'm putting the weight to my front foot like i said then i'm whipping it in putting the weight to me back foot that weight transfer is what's getting the power in the punch i'm keeping me thumb up some people like to have their thumb in i like to have me thumb up because there's less rotation in the arm when you're doing it this way and again like the other
punches exhaling when we throw this punch i like to call this punch just the hook a lot of people like to call this the three put whatever you prefer whatever your coaches prefer moving on the next punch which is a punch i don't really teach even though when i was fighting i used to love to throw that double jab and then the rear hook he's a little clipping me on the screen here in a fight doing this combination now you can get so much power in this punch and how we're going to throw it we're
going to be in the boxing stance position and from your face it comes out and around now a common mistake i see here would be this i get dropped down here then coming all the way around that's incorrect because imagine if you were in a fight and you're dropping this hand ah you leaving yourself wide open so from your face out and around now from here you're getting enough power in this punch to do some damage but just like the lead hook or the cross it's all about turning them hips and transferring the weight if
you notice when i'm throwing this like i said it's coming from me face my lead hands staying up i'm turning my hips i'm transferring the weight to me front foot i'm exhaling staying relaxed when i'm doing it and that's what you've got to do to get maximum power into this punch now the last basic punch we're going to go over before we go over the eight advanced punches is the lead hook to the body now when you're throwing this punch it's best to throw it by bringing your weight to your front foot and when you
do this if you think about bringing your back shoulder forward and then we back shoulders forward i'm in that perfect position whipping that body shot now if you think your phone or right hand at my head i've slipped that right hand it's leaving you wide open for the body there and you can whip that in so to get yourself in the position to throw this punch you can do one or two things like i mentioned you would slip and bring that shoulder forward and put you in there oh my what i prefer is throwing that
right hand and then that puts you in the position to throw it but when you're throwing the right hand you've got to shorten the right hand because i'm on the bag here if i throw that long right hand what we went over before now i'm kind of not in the position to throw this hook because my shoulder is still back so you've got to shorten the punch so it would be more like here and now i'm in the position to whip it in or the other way is slip and throw it in so as you
can see there i'm slipping to my lead side and then throwing that lead hook to the body keeping my back hand by me face tight guard exhaling staying relaxed when i do it now you can see i'm throwing a very short right hand to put my weight forward over the front foot and then whipping in that body shot the great thing about throwing the right hand first is you will get them to react by putting the hands up which will leave them open for the body okay so what are these other eight individual advanced punches
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it through there this screw shot is great and you can also start with it next one is the overcut with the rear hand so when you're inside here you want to turn and throw that straight up the middle not across what i see all the time but straight up the middle now the next punch is a rear uppercut from your boxing stance position coming from your face throwing it around turning now with this we've got three different ranges of the overcoat we've got the short range if we were inside we've got the mid-range there which
is great to throw a jab then stepping in with that one then we've got the long range overcut which comes all the way out there i prefer working on the mid-range unload here now when you are throwing this you want to turn your hips you want your arm to be on a 90-degree angle and you want your hand to be in the middle of your face there often people throw this and it goes over there if you throw up like that that means the powers went up there we don't want the power there we want
the power there so we're there next is the lead overcut this side now this is a very advanced punch to throw and the times when i would throw this would be let's just see if i've got someone up against the ropes here i would throw that little lead uppercut there to set them up for the next punch because i know if i throw a little lead that will put there to you your hands are going to come together one night and whip in that re-hook to the body like a whipping that re-hook to the head
and then go to work and finish off for a combination so it's kind of a setup shot i wouldn't really you know use this in the middle of a fight like leading off or a lead uppercut it would be very difficult but if you're up close it's a great punch to work with next one is a cross to the body i was going to put this into the basic ones but like i mentioned you know i prefer the hook to the body so with this punch all you're going to do is throw your back hand
to the body but when you're doing this you're going to rotate your hips and bend your knees at the same time keeping your lead and up and exhaling now all the ways you can throw this you could step with it taking your head off that center line that's in between your feet because there if you notice that lining between my feet that's where the punches come down i've dodged that punch and i'm blasting them in that body but this is another great punch to throw after your throat to jab the head across the jab ahead
the hands come up and it's just like a rhythm like the one too the next punch is another body shot this time it's the jab of the body now this is something that floyd mayweather used to do all the time but he would throw it where he's just standing up and then it would come down like that to keep their opponents thinking what i like to do when i'm throwing the jabber body is really stepping with it and again that lining between me feet i'm taking my head off that center line i'm blasting in that
jab there the jab the body is a good shot to set up other punches because if i hit that one but the hands come down then i will come up stairs after that the next punch is one of mike tyson's favorite punches which is the rear hook to the body where you're up close warm and really whipping that in you can have success with this because people don't expect that rear hook to the body but i like to throw this like the way mike tyson used to throw this when you're up close here and i
would like to set it up with some punches to the head so it would be like a one two one one and then really whipping that punch in the next punch is another backhand to the body but this time it's a ball punch this is a very advanced punch to throw and the goal with the bowler punch is to hit someone in the solar plexus right there when they're not expecting it if you've ever been hit in the body right there when you're not expecting it you'll know what i'm talking about it's horrible so how
to throw this if i'm here this hand's coming down and around and through the middle of my guard there but again it's hard to lead off with this punch it's a great punch to throw if someone's coming forward to you and you throw a left hand and then that one or if you're going forward with them you need to set it up with some left hands and then step in and then throw that body shot this is also a great shot to use against someone who's got the opposite stance to you so if you're orthodox
against the southpaw if you're a southpaw it's great use against the orthodox opponent as well because of the stance position it's there's more space to be able to land that body shot and the final one one of my favorite ones is the pivot hook i've created this video here for you to learn exactly how to throw the pivot hook should definitely practice this click here and watch this video next
