why can’t someone who is light in weight punch as hard as someone who is heavier?
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When you punch, your body weight and muscles help to create the force behind the punch. Think of your body like a car – the heavier and stronger the car, the more power it can put into moving forward. People who are lighter don’t have as much weight or muscle to help them create a strong punch, so their punches might not be as hard as someone who is heavier.
However, this doesn’t mean that lighter people can’t learn to punch harder. By practicing good technique and building up their muscles, they can still throw strong punches. It’s just that, in general, people who are heavier have a natural advantage when it comes to punching hard.
When you punch, your body weight and muscles help to create the force behind the punch. Think of your body like a car – the heavier and stronger the car, the more power it can put into moving forward. People who are lighter don’t have as much weight or muscle to help them create a strong punch, so their punches might not be as hard as someone who is heavier.
However, this doesn’t mean that lighter people can’t learn to punch harder. By practicing good technique and building up their muscles, they can still throw strong punches. It’s just that, in general, people who are heavier have a natural advantage when it comes to punching hard.
When you punch, your body weight and muscles help to create the force behind the punch. Think of your body like a car – the heavier and stronger the car, the more power it can put into moving forward. People who are lighter don’t have as much weight or muscle to help them create a strong punch, so their punches might not be as hard as someone who is heavier.
However, this doesn’t mean that lighter people can’t learn to punch harder. By practicing good technique and building up their muscles, they can still throw strong punches. It’s just that, in general, people who are heavier have a natural advantage when it comes to punching hard.
Basic physics – specifically Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion.
The force acting on an object (like a fist) is equal to mass times velocity. More mass, more force.
Same reason why the damage a vehicle accident causes varies depending on the size of the vehicles involved. Two cars at 30mph is generally survivable. A train hitting a car at 30mph… not so much.
Basic physics – specifically Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion.
The force acting on an object (like a fist) is equal to mass times velocity. More mass, more force.
Same reason why the damage a vehicle accident causes varies depending on the size of the vehicles involved. Two cars at 30mph is generally survivable. A train hitting a car at 30mph… not so much.
Basic physics – specifically Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion.
The force acting on an object (like a fist) is equal to mass times velocity. More mass, more force.
Same reason why the damage a vehicle accident causes varies depending on the size of the vehicles involved. Two cars at 30mph is generally survivable. A train hitting a car at 30mph… not so much.
Reaction mass is what some people have said, if you don’t weigh much, when you connect, you’re more likely to push yourself back off them than if you were heavier.
Another factor is the speed of your muscles. All things being equal, if you were lighter (and your fist/arm was too), you could make up for that with a faster punch.
Less mass in your arm, but more speed to make up for it. This is one of those Newtonian things involving collisions, if everything worked out without losses, if you wacked a 2kg ball into a 1kg ball and it transferred all the energy, the 1kg ball would shoot off at double the speed.
However, there’s going to be a max speed based on your muscles, you wouldn’t just be able to halve the weight of your arm and then expect it to move twice as fast. In other words, you can get faster with your punches, but there’s a sort of preferred speed from your muscles which it’ll tend to hang around.
eg- your muscles will move your arm in a particular speed range no matter what. Double the weight of your arm won’t halve the speed, half-weight arms won’t double the speed. You can add extra mass though, so if you gripped a lump of steel in your fist, you’d have a stronger punch, as there would be spare capacity in your muscles to account for the extra mass without taking a big hit in the speed to level it back out.
This part however is just one part of the whole punch, it’s more like the mechanics of throwing a limp arm at someone, and doesn’t account for the followthrough which would give you a stronger punch from having a heavy overall physique.
science can explain this, acceleration * mass = force.
Quicker you can move your arm and more of your body weight behind it the harder the punch. SIMPLE… sort of.
Im an ex sprinter but I did play and train with some boxers many years ago, went to a science place and had some punches measured for speed and impact force. The boxers outscored me, by a good margin. They hit hard, really hard. Now I have a couple of black belts in kung fu and karate. The technique was similar but also very different.
My kung fu instructor talked about a punch should be like “an iron chain with an iron ball on the end” The karate guy told me it should feel like an iron stick. The boxers when I talked about this with them said, turn your hip and punch through their face, and if you use your legs you should punch with the mass of the world behind you. (not true but not a bad training lesson)
There is also for want of a better description magic at play, some boxers just have heavy hands. One of the boxers I was training/playing with punched me on the shoulder. Just a jab and my jaw rattled.
Think about a domestic cat, crazy little wannabe tiger, watch their paw speed. Crazy quick. will hit a toy 4 or 5 times a second …bap, bap, bap, bap. But so little body weight behind this. Now watch a tourist on holiday that stands next to an elephant. One swing of the trunk and tourist is knocked over, elephant ways more than a cat.
Imagine getting hit with a baseball vs a ball of paper. Same speed at you. It comes down to weight.
When someone punches, swings a bat, ect, they technically are throwing a percent of their weight behind the action. More weight =harder
Harder punch = weight x speed (ELI5 version)
Force= mass x acceleration
science can explain this, acceleration * mass = force.
Quicker you can move your arm and more of your body weight behind it the harder the punch. SIMPLE… sort of.
Im an ex sprinter but I did play and train with some boxers many years ago, went to a science place and had some punches measured for speed and impact force. The boxers outscored me, by a good margin. They hit hard, really hard. Now I have a couple of black belts in kung fu and karate. The technique was similar but also very different.
My kung fu instructor talked about a punch should be like “an iron chain with an iron ball on the end” The karate guy told me it should feel like an iron stick. The boxers when I talked about this with them said, turn your hip and punch through their face, and if you use your legs you should punch with the mass of the world behind you. (not true but not a bad training lesson)
There is also for want of a better description magic at play, some boxers just have heavy hands. One of the boxers I was training/playing with punched me on the shoulder. Just a jab and my jaw rattled.
Think about a domestic cat, crazy little wannabe tiger, watch their paw speed. Crazy quick. will hit a toy 4 or 5 times a second …bap, bap, bap, bap. But so little body weight behind this. Now watch a tourist on holiday that stands next to an elephant. One swing of the trunk and tourist is knocked over, elephant ways more than a cat.
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