This simple tip will increase your offensive and defensive fighting abilities.
THE SECRET – Drop the Hips How does dropping the hips help a boxer? Punching Without a doubt, you need to drop your hips if you want to throw more powerful punches. Dropping the hips will ground you, giving you more balance and power. On the other hand, lifting the hips will make you lighter and decrease your balance and power. Raising your hips during a punch will make your punch less powerful and also leave you vulnerable to being pushed off balance. Defending Dropping your hips while defending can help you ground so that you don’t get pushed off balance. If you’ve fought a trained fighter before, you might notice that they become very heavy when blocking your punches. And that sometimes you even felt like you were being pushed back when you threw at their guard. They’re able to push you back because they were heavier than you were. You can become heavier while blocking by dropping your hips so you can push back your opponent using his own arm. Moving Dropping your hips while moving will make you more grounded, allowing you to move with more balance and control. Being more grounded allows you to change directions easily if needed, and always be ready to attack or defend. On the other hand, floating above the ground leaves you vulnerable to being pushed off balance and you can’t attack or defend. How to Drop the Hips The secret to dropping the hips: RELEASE the hips, not lower the hips. Many people misunderstand what it means to “drop the hips”. They think it means lowering the hips and so they end up bending their knees too much and taking too long to throw the punch. The right way is to drop your hips slightly right as you land a punch, or drop the hips right as you block a punch, or right as you move. The proper way to drop the hips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suVv3llu-mc 1. First release the hips Relax your hip muscles the same way that you relax your arm at the initial phase of a punch. The hips are being relaxed as you exhale during the movement (for a punch, block, or footwork). 2. Catch the hips “Catching the hips” means to tighten your hips for a split second right at the end of the release. You tighten your hip muscles for just a split second right at the moment of impact (the same way you tighten your fist at impact). 3. Use very little energy and very little movement It’s about relaxing and releasing more so than it is about tensing and tightening. The hip drops maybe an inch or a centimeter at most, it shouldn’t be an actual “drop” that you can see. The moment of tension is only for a split second. Full article : http://www.expertboxing.com/boxing-basics/boxing-tips/boxing-tip-7-drop-the-hips
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