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Originally Posted by The BadBoy When throwing punches I find that I'm off balance if I feel my weight further forward than my lead knee. Especially if this knee is then over my toes. Therefore I try to keep my weight behind my lead knee. As soon as I feel it going over I feel myself reachig for the punch and slightly off balance. |
I think this happens a lot to people in different striking arts. The idea of using the floorcraft, footwork and your lower body to generate the force behind the punch is something that is realtively new to beginners. So the motions are over-exaggerated and they really start leaning into a punch rather than sitting (or for our internal MA practitioners, "sinking") into the punch. The net result may seem the same but leaning past your center throws it too far forward making your balance almost tight-rope like, very precarious. To me i think a majority of knock downs come from this, a person over-commits and their balance is too far forward, if the defnder slips and throws a solid hook to the head or body and lands it 9 times out of 10 that person will go down since they have no connection with their center to the floor. Comments? These are just my observations, I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks.