If nothing else, remember the basics on how to throw a punch:
Aim two inches to a foot behind the initial point of contact so you don’t stop moving your fist at the surface and waste the strike
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Keep your thumb outside of your fist when you punch or you’ll risk fracturing your own hand. Bones are hard and sandwiching them in layers isnt doing anyone any favors
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Use your whole body as you throw the punch. Twist at the waist and put your shoulder into it so the punch flys as hard, straight, and fast as you can manage. Obviously, you can’t always punch like this, but if you are going for a haymaker, this is the way to do it. Practice the stroke a few times in front of a mirror before trying it IRL.
If you're going to learn anything, it probably shouldn't be a punch. You need to practice a punch in sparring if it's going to be worth half a fuck for anything. I have a bunch of years of BJJ experience + a couple months of muay thai and I wouldn't be caught dead throwing a punch for anything besides distracting someone as I close the distance.
If I had to teach somebody who's probably not going to practice very much, it would be 3 things:
How to fall without fucking your shit up (more easily researched "the breakfall"): you tuck your chin and don't reach out your arms
The outside trip: if you're like me then you were playing around with it in primary school
A mount escape: not losing is a core fundamental of winning
Wrestling with your friends is a lot of fun. If you want to punch well you either need a coach or the element of surprise.
That’s fair, the things you mentioned are definitely useful in their own right and probably more practical. I just wanted to share basic stuff I remembered from self defense classes I took as a kid that served me well over the years.
If nothing else, remember the basics on how to throw a punch:
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If you're going to learn anything, it probably shouldn't be a punch. You need to practice a punch in sparring if it's going to be worth half a fuck for anything. I have a bunch of years of BJJ experience + a couple months of muay thai and I wouldn't be caught dead throwing a punch for anything besides distracting someone as I close the distance.
If I had to teach somebody who's probably not going to practice very much, it would be 3 things:
How to fall without fucking your shit up (more easily researched "the breakfall"): you tuck your chin and don't reach out your arms
The outside trip: if you're like me then you were playing around with it in primary school
A mount escape: not losing is a core fundamental of winning
Wrestling with your friends is a lot of fun. If you want to punch well you either need a coach or the element of surprise.
That’s fair, the things you mentioned are definitely useful in their own right and probably more practical. I just wanted to share basic stuff I remembered from self defense classes I took as a kid that served me well over the years.