Recenter your weight after punching

Recenter your weight after punching: how to do it

1. When you finish the punch, pull back the weight that drifted forward right away.
2. Stop where your weight sits in the middle between your front and back feet. This is where you return to at the end of every punch.
3. Tap the floor lightly with your pivot foot, tap, tap, to check that your weight is back in the middle.
4. From that centered position, throw your next right cross or hook.

Recenter your weight after punching: key points

• The first place to return to when you finish punching is the middle between your front and back feet. Don't start your next move while you're still drifting forward.
• The faster you get back to the middle, the sooner your next punch comes out.
• Make it a habit every time to tap small steps with your pivot foot and bring your weight back to center.

Recenter your weight after punching: common mistakes

• Your body falls forward after you punch. Then you can't throw the next punch and you take their counterattack full on.
• You try to recenter and lean too far onto your back foot. Then you're slow to move forward instead.

Recenter your weight after punching: how to practice

• In shadowboxing, tap, tap with your pivot foot after every punch before throwing the next. Once you're used to it, make the taps smaller.
• On the heavy bag, repeat punch, recenter, punch. Check that your head isn't past your front foot right after you punch.

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