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Heres the drill on punching power, its developed around the straight lead punch, though obviously it can be adapted towards other punches, its a short drill yet I believe its consice and easy to understand, it also inclues a more indepth look at the bai jong and peripheral vision, I think I should get one written down about kicking and efficent moving aswell...that would be good lol.

Punching Drill

1. Assume the Bai Jong position. We'll start with the bottom upwards as thats the easiest way to learn.

Your foot positioning is what we call angular, in that both feet face towards the opponents centreline, they should be about 1.5 times your shoulder widths apart, though thats not written in stone, you want your knees to be bent to the point where your groin isn't an easy target that you can't defend in time.

The toes of your lead foot should be tilting inwards slightly (towards the imaginary wall running bewteen your legs etc)and the toes of your backfoot should be outwards slightly, also the back heel should be raised about 45* from the floor, this should serve as your "trigger" one could say. Though not at the extent of your weight distribution.

Your waist should be tilted foward slightly, around 30* (whats commonly reffered to as "a boxers crouch"), your head shoulder be tilted foward slightly, closing the gap from your chin over your throat to the point where your back fist can remove your throat as a target, this is where you should now perform a vision check - your peripheral vision should reach from the tip of your lead foot, to your would be opponents face.

Your back arm is obviously bent at the elbow, its hand should cover the lessened opening of your throat though not be pressed to far back so as to be pinned against you.

The elbow of your lead arm should be infront of your lead side ribs, there should be a gap bewteen 4-6 inches maintaned bewteen them, even after your fist has shot out and struck the attacker, you should seek to retain that measure as quickly as possible.

Your hands should be in loosely clenched fists, as these can be shot out quicker.

2. Move your leading arm (this stance works powerside foward)outwards,in a light fist along a vertical line, your elbow should be as close to the centre line without sacrificing any of your good attributes (balance etc) and will also make the attack harder to stop (trust me), the assault should be lead by your bottom three knuckles.

3. As you make contact with the punch bag, slightly "c**k" your wrist so that only the very last knuckle touches the bag, remember to at first do this lightly though and slowly, learn the technique with good form, then add speed and power.

4. Remember to do this sequence relaxed, this is because:

- The movement will be executed fluidly without any excess muscular tension, this creates the arcing light movement which will redirect the bag/opponents rebound back against the wall rather then at you.

- The lack of stiffness in the arm makes it harder for the opponent to make his counter, also it allows for much greater penetration from the punch as your snapping past the point of impact and thusly greater damage

5. How much of these you do is upto you, I would say do around 15 minutes a day, most students prefer to do around 1000reps, You simply need to get form, and then get speed/power from the movements, then just practice at a rate in which it continues to get refined.

6. Visualisation, imagine that your body is at the wide end of a tunnel, and as you move closer to your target the tunnel becomes smaller, and thus your fist strikes at the end of the tunnel...your target...with 100% of its force, you could also mark the spot on the bag you wish to strike, though the visualiation technique does not work for everyone, but it does most.

Jass

Jass sent me this drill for punching power a long, long time ago. =)

Well punches are my specalty - odd for a TKDst I know, but I was always an unorthidox fighter, I do what works.

My best advice is to get your shoulder behind it, while alot of the 'proper' forms say to use your hips - they aint got the same, tried and true, battle tested asswhup of a soild, shoulder-heavy slug to the jaw.

Now the downside to this is most people want ot throw a hook when they use thier shoudlers, but let me share a trade secret to you.

I foudn that using a modifed lugnign puch you can acheive a series of devistating blows.

When you are sparring, start to advance on your opponent, now you want to start the swing when your corrisponding foot is in your backstep, bring the opposite arm up in a half Boxer's guard to be ready to ward off any attempts to retaliate with a quick outer forarm or knifehand block.

Now you need to be quick with your foot work or a skilled grappler with mosh your as swith this form, step UP a bit, rather then forward, and then come down HARD on that foot while both moving foward, and executing said punch at a slight downward angle, aimed at either thier throat, solar plexus, or a softer spot on thier face if you get the chance, you'll put about 1.8 times your normal body mass of your standard punches into this blow and it lands like a veritable ton of bricks, I've knocked equal sized opponents sprawling by plant one of thosein thier Plexus. And the way you land sets up a pefect lattice for a second swing with the opposite arm.

If you can keep it up your opponent will be too busy trying to keep from getting his nose splattered across your knukcles to put up more then defense.

This punch proves that sometimes gravity IS your friend, I dont know if its an offical form somewhere, but I called it the Anvil....cause belive me, thats what it feels like.

aim for his Solar Plexus.

Its the spot where his ribs meet his abdomen.

If ou hit it just right you'll deflate his lungs for a moment, and that HURTS and will stun ANYONE.