Who exactly and why is beating a Syrian with a sledgehammer near Palmyra?

How to train the power of a hand strike - setting and developing a strike

What is impact force and what does it depend on?

What is impact force and what does it depend on? Force is mass times acceleration. It follows from this that to increase the power of the blow, both the speed with which you perform the blow and the muscle mass of the arm and the whole body as a whole are important. Among other things, there must be rigidity in the blow, because you are going to hit with your fist? and not slap?

Therefore, if you want to throw a knockout or just a powerful blow, you need to train both the speed of the blow and the muscles involved in the blow - legs, arms, chest, back, shoulders, and it will also not be amiss to develop the correct technique for striking.

What muscles are involved when punching?

When throwing a punch, be it the notorious jab or everyone's favorite hook, the following muscles are involved:

The blow starts from the foot and the energy subsequently passes through the body from bottom to top and reaches the hand:

https://youtu.be/EFOQHrd2jn4

Why do you need to hit a tire with a sledgehammer?

Hitting the tire develops your explosive strength and endurance. It doesn’t look like a difficult exercise, but after 5-10 hits it causes the body muscles to become confused and testosterone is released, as with squats with a barbell. Each blow becomes more and more difficult. Body muscles such as the latissimus, biceps, and forearms begin to fail, because most of the load when hitting a tire with a sledgehammer goes through the arms from the hands to the back muscles. The exercise gives you a surge of emotions and allows you to throw out all your fatigue on the tire, but the tire will not give up and you will have to hit it for a long time to cause any damage.

Muscles involved when striking with a hand - their role and importance

Leg muscles and strength

Leg muscles include the quadriceps and calf muscles. The development of these muscles is essential for anyone who wants to have a strong punch. The leg muscles are responsible for pushing off the ground, which fills your body with energy. The leg muscles also happen to be the largest muscles in your body, which is why all punches in boxing tend to involve the legs with a duck, twist and turn.

The greatest power is concentrated in the legs! Not in the chest muscles and not in the triceps. After taking a closer look at many of the most prominent punchers, researchers found that they had well-developed legs, rather than big arms or powerful chests. When studying muscle development in boxers, you won't see huge pecs or triceps. Although large muscles also provide a certain advantage - greater body mass means a more powerful blow.

Gennady Golovkin, Miguel Cotto, Sergey Kovalev are just a few of the people who immediately come to mind. These knockout boxers don't have huge muscles, but the power hidden in their fists is great.

Hips (lower body and balance)

The hips stabilize the lower body and legs. When striking with the hand, they also produce a huge amount of muscular effort by rotating and fixing the body. Because your hips are close to your body's center of gravity, stronger hips mean you have better balance. The ability to maintain balance is one of the most important factors in combat. In reality, balance largely determines the effectiveness and efficiency of your attack, defense, movement and overall ability to fight.

Using your leg muscles, you make a powerful forward movement in the direction of the punch, moving your hips with each punch, and thereby putting your entire body weight into each punch, making it as powerful as possible.

Abs (front part of the body - abdominal muscles)

The abdominal muscles form a very powerful set of muscles that hold your body together. The press allows you to harness the force generated by all your limbs into one powerful and crushing blow.

Back (back of the body - tilt when striking)

The role of the back muscles is also to hold your body together and combine the muscular forces produced by the individual limbs. Also, the back muscles are involved in twisting when striking - thereby strengthening the blow. The back muscles hold the body when the fist collides with the impact surface, thereby preventing the force of the blow from being reduced by bending backwards.

Shoulders (arm endurance)

Shoulders are very important for sustained punching. The shoulders also produce the muscular forces necessary for forward movement when striking with the hand. As a rule, when a boxer's arms are too tired to throw punches or maintain head protection, the reason lies precisely in tired shoulders.

From a physiological point of view, the shoulder muscles support the weight of the entire arm. If you want to throw more punches than your opponent and be able to keep your hands in place for a longer period of time, it is imperative to train your shoulder muscle endurance. You should not strive to make your shoulders as stronger and larger as possible - the contribution they make to the impact force is much less compared to the contribution of the work of your legs.

Arms (power and speed)

It is the hands that are responsible for the force of the blows. The most important function of the hands when striking is to transfer the produced muscular efforts to the enemy through a blow with the hand. The arm itself is only partially responsible for creating muscular forces - and most of this is occupied by the legs and back - the lower back muscles. The main function of the hands is to transfer the forces collected by your body to your opponent in the form of a blow!

Thus, the main function of the arms is to reach forward and touch the opponent. The hands produce the blow, not the force of the blow. Next you will see how important it is to have fast rather than powerful hands. Quick arm extensions provide speed of impact. Speed ​​allows you to unnoticed by the enemy to bypass his defense. And bending your arms at the elbow ensures a quick transition to defense after an attack.

The triceps provide the speed of straight punches. The biceps are responsible for the speed and extension of the arms during hooks and uppercuts. Don’t get carried away with pumping up your arms by making them massive; better make them hard and fast, then you can perform quick combinations of hard punches. The lower body creates the force of the blow, and the hands are its mediator!

Pectoral muscles

Their most important functions are to connect the muscles of the shoulders and arms into a single system. In addition, they provide the greatest contribution to impact force of any muscle in the upper body.

Small muscles

The neck muscles serve to defend against enemy strikes. Many fighters strengthen their neck muscles to prevent their head from flopping around after blows. The muscles of the forearm are responsible for clenching the palm into a fist. A stronger fist means a harder punch. At the same time, a strong fist means you are less likely to get injured in your hand because the bones are fixed and there is not enough room for them to move.

So what muscles work when you hit a tire with a sledgehammer?

• Muscles of the forearm and hand. The constant change in the position of the center of gravity, the presence of acceleration and the moment of impact contact with a durable tire give the muscles of the forearm and hand a significant load! That is, when working with a sledgehammer, you will inevitably strengthen your grip.

• Shoulders, biceps - these muscles are included in the work, since it is with our hands that we hold the sledgehammer, and at the last moment of the blow they bear the entire load.

• Latissimus muscles, abs - these muscles are included in the work during the swing. Due to the fact that the blow is usually delivered in a circular amplitude, the oblique abdominal muscles are activated.

• Lumbar belt - according to the principle of hypertension, we use the lower back when we tear the sledgehammer off the tire, as a rule, your body goes up along with the sledgehammer.

• Calf muscles - many athletes, and especially boxers, do a large number of repetitions and, to strengthen the blow, also turn up the toe using the correct technique. Due to this constant action, we train the calf muscles.

What does a strong blow mean - what should a strong blow be?

How strong should a knockout blow be?

• The mass and energy of the entire body must be invested in the blow and transmitted in the form of a blow; the blow must be hard.
• When contacting the striking surface, no part of the body should be too relaxed and move back when aiming.
• The blow must be delivered with a fist and not with a hand or forearm - so that the striking surface is bones.
• The maximum clenching force of the fist should be at the moment of hitting the target.
• the blow must be quick and preferably not noticeable to the enemy.

Evgeniy Lukin - Gougers of Space, or the Genius of the Sledgehammer

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Evgeniy LUKIN

THE GOGGLES OF SPACE, OR THE GENIUS OF THE SLEDGEHAMMER

Chapter 1

This is not the same city, and the midnight is not the same.

Boris Pasternak

Desperately, the acacia trees crippled by the bulldozer bloomed for the last time over the plaster ruins of the fountain. Stone hulks of high-rise buildings surrounded the collapsed public garden on three sides. From the fourth, the highway was noisy.

“And we don’t know how to break properly...” they muttered in the black Volga that rustled past, and by the evening of the next day a high wall of concrete slabs stood between the highway and the remains of the public garden.

Dusk moved towards the city, but, greeted by a volley of white lamps, they jumped from the side of the road and, jumping over the wall, lay down on the other side. The high-rise buildings were checkered with multi-colored windows, but the weak light of the floor lamps and chandeliers evaporated before flying even half the distance to the crippled public garden. And what happened there in the ruins until zero o’clock - God knows.

* * *

- Stop! Stop, I say!

On the echoing night asphalt, sneakers lisped and heels rattled. The police whistle blew long.

From behind an upholstered corner, decorated with an obscene inscription, a lop-eared, close-cropped guy with bulging eyes and a telephone receiver in his hand jumped out. Without spending a second on reflection, which indicated a good knowledge of the area and a certain life experience, he blew straight towards the broken fence, behind which began a blessed through labyrinth of potholes, embankments and acacia trees half turned out of the ground.

Following the lop-eared man, a stocky police sergeant, as one would expect, stomped out onto a light bald spot under a streetlight, and also not empty-handed. In his right hand was firmly clamped a rubber instrument, probably familiar to everyone - not tactilely, but visually.

Oh, these were worthy opponents! They ran the short distance from the corner to the fence with approximately the same agility, and therefore one could only guess what exactly would triumph today: lop-eared vice or stocky, bristling virtue. Everything had to be decided there, on the territory of the former public garden.

So, having jumped two trenches in a row, they burst into darkness shimmering with white clusters, and the pursuit followed the sound. At the ruins of the fountain, where the young plaster moron was still strangling a plaster baby dolphin with a broken tail in his arms, the sergeant’s instincts changed - he stuck his head down the wrong path. True, the offender did not gain much from this; Having dived through the lilac and received a heavy wet brush on his hot forehead, he stopped in confusion in front of a high concrete wall that had not been here before.

Seconds counted. Behind them, branches crunched in the darkness and muffled curses were heard - the policeman was ahead, and, it seemed, in the right direction. There was no way to the right - the remains of a mangled fence, dumped haphazardly, blackened and wriggled there. To the left, half hidden in the shadows, there was a metallic gleam of some rounded structure, which, presumably, had arisen at the same time as the wall.

Then the bushes crackled very close by, and the bully, having made up his mind, rushed to the left. There it got jammed - it turned out that the vile building structure was installed almost flush against the concrete. It was too late to run around her. The guy jumped back and suddenly noticed that there was a rectangular hole in the round metal side. Without hesitation, he rushed towards her and ran on all fours along the inclined steel slab into the tank. Carefully, so as not to hit his head in the dark, he rose to his feet, and then - oh horror! fear, noose and pit! – the light turned on.

It wasn't a tank! The attacker found himself standing, clutching an uprooted pipe, in the middle of a short corridor with deep narrow niches on the sides.

Circumstances did not allow him to be dumbfounded for a long time - from the outer darkness the grinding sound of gravel under his heels approached, and, without waiting for the guard of this strange lining to come out into the corridor, the hooligan got stuck in one of the niches. The watchman didn’t come out, and a plan formed in his stunned, cropped head: the cop would rush to the end of the corridor, and in the meantime he would rush through the door, and - goodbye, Vasya!

The grinding of gravel and menacing snoring approached the very entrance and suddenly stopped. The intruder froze. Quietly, as if afraid of accidentally squeaking his eye, he glanced sideways at the left wall of the niche.

“Well, no damn thing...” the policeman finally said and began to breathe again. He stood in front of an incomprehensible structure, and a gentle pinkish light from the open hatch poured onto his shoes.

- Hey, are you inside, or what?

There was no answer. The sergeant returned the baton to the loop and took out a flashlight. Stepping back further, I illuminated the entire structure. Cursed.

- Come out, it will get worse! – he ordered in fear, but again received no answer.

Muttering something about brainless brats, he crouched down and shined a light under the bottom. Landing supports were found under the bottom. The sight of them so excited the policeman that he jumped up from his haunches and, jumping away, shouted into the empty corridor illuminated by a pinkish glow:

-Where did you go? Do you realize where you got into? It's a flying saucer, you fool!

Something rustled in the bushes. The sergeant turned around, piercing the night with his flashlight. The thought of aliens returning to their ship captured his imagination. Peering, he spent a long time moving the beam along the inverted roots and hillocks of the excavated soil. Not risking getting close to the device again, I crouched down again and illuminated the supports. The supports were wow, powerful...

- Have pity on your father and mother! You'll fly away to the next hairdryer!

The bully was silent. It was necessary to do something, but I really didn’t want to do it... The sergeant looked around sadly. On three sides dark high-rise buildings were piled up, on the fourth there was a black wall, above which the coldish light of roadside lanterns scattered in the night. The easiest way, of course, would be to call for help with a series of short whistles. But the policeman did not dare to whistle in the immediate vicinity of the alien spaceship, especially since someone was rustling again in the ruins of the fountain. It's good if cats...

“Listen, guy,” the sergeant called, lowering his voice. - Okay, to hell with her, with the pipe... I'll let you go, just get out... Well, are you really tired of living?

Then no dog will find you! Well, let me go, if you don’t believe me...

Looking back every now and then, he indeed retreated fifteen steps to the mangled, fallen fence, where he stood waiting. Nothing good came of this, of course, and after some time the policeman, looking very gloomy, returned to the hatch.

- Well, parasite! Now I’ll get in and pull you out by the ears! For the last time I’m telling you: come out!

I listened hopefully. Useless. He hid the flashlight and looked around melancholy again. Then he put on a fierce muzzle and, swearing in a whisper, climbed...

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Staging and practicing boxing strikes

Setting up a punch in boxing - setting up a jab - straight punch (left straight)

How to throw a side punch with a hook hand - side punches in boxing

Practicing punches on a punching bag - punching bag

Practicing blows on a bag, preferably on several bags: heavy and soft (for impact force), heavy and hard (strength, also the hardness of the blow). It is better to work with small bags in quick series - impact speed and endurance. Read about how to choose a boxing bag for practicing punches here.

With the correct striking technique, well-padded fists and the correct positioning of the fist, you can work in only bandages on a very hard bag, without injury. The main thing is not to let the blow fall into the bag, but to immediately pull your hand back, as if to prick - to sting, as Mohamed Ali said. It is advisable to train both hands and strikes from any position, to hit with any types of strikes. The blow should be short, not sweeping, and follow an optimal trajectory. See the video below to learn how to set up a striking technique.

Setting up and practicing punches

Setting up and practicing combinations of strikes

Where can I get a tire and a sledgehammer?

• For work, it is better to find abandoned tires, but not from passenger cars on R13, but much more, ideally, tires from a tractor or truck. This rarely happens near a tire shop, although it does happen. If there are only small radius tires, it can be placed vertically and dug in (like on playgrounds).

• You can buy a sledgehammer, but as a rule in tool stores they are no more than 10 kg. Prices start from 2500 rubles. with a long handle, which is exactly what you need. Larger sledgehammers are usually homemade.

It’s better to see about performance technique once than to read a hundred times. Watch below!

https://youtu.be/OOx4BHl1JGg

How to train your punching power

In boxing, to increase the strength of a boxer's punches, various methods of developing strength and sets of specialized exercises are provided.

The most effective exercises to increase punching power

Physical exercises that will help develop a strong blow - “GPP”

Basic exercises that develop the upper muscle groups:

Push-ups develop: triceps brachii muscles - triceps, pectoralis major muscles, deltoids, biceps muscles - or biceps, serratus anterior muscles, gluteus maximus muscles, abdominal muscles.

To develop a powerful and hard blow, you need to practice four types of push-ups:

• push-ups on palms - hands at shoulder level
• push-ups with fists - hands at shoulder level
• finger push-ups - hands at shoulder level
• push-ups on palms with clapping - hands at shoulder level

How to properly hit with a sledgehammer

Sledgehammer blows are performed while standing in front of the tire. In order to avoid injuries when hitting a tire, during the first training do not try to apply force to the sledgehammer to increase the impact force. Until you develop the technique, there is no need to use force on the sledgehammer, just throw it on the tire, believe me, you will quickly get tired of simple throws on the tire.

How to properly hit a tire with a sledgehammer or hammer:

• First of all, we stand in front of the tire and take a sledgehammer or hammer in our hands;
• If the swing is made with the right hand, then the left leg is put forward and the right leg is put back. If otherwise, then vice versa.
• When swinging from the right side, the right hand holds the hammer at the very striking part, and the left hand holds the very base of the hammer (the end of the stick). If otherwise, then vice versa.
• During the swing, your back is straight, your gaze is on the tire, your body is tense.
• During the impact, the hammer is tilted onto the tire, and if the hammer is to the right of the body, then the right hand during the flight of the sledgehammer moves to the left hand, and upon impact, both hands are at the base of the sledgehammer.
• If your hands hold the sledgehammer not at the base, but in the middle, you will simply get hit in the face with the end of the sledgehammer from the inertia of hitting the tire.
• After the sledgehammer hits the tire, do not let go of the sledgehammer and wait until all the force of the impact is extinguished. If you let go of the sledgehammer ahead of time, you might get hit in the face with the end of the sledgehammer, and of course you don’t want that.
• When the blow is extinguished and the sledgehammer lies at rest on the tire, we turn the body to the other side, if we were on the right, then on the left.
• We take a sledgehammer and swing from the other side, if the swing was from the right, then from the left.
• And let's move on to point 2 again.

How to train punching power - practicing and setting up punches

Exercises to develop punching power - Palm push-ups

push-ups on the palms - an exercise for developing the power of impact
; push-ups on the palms - hands at shoulder level help develop the mass and strength of the chest and triceps muscles. This type of push-up is performed slowly, exhaling at the bottom point and holding for 1 - 2 seconds at the top and bottom points. The back should be straight - the lower back muscles should be tense. The legs are brought together as much as possible. Perform 2 - 3 approaches per workout - the maximum number of times.

The main purpose of push-ups on fists is to strengthen the hands. When doing push-ups, all the same muscles are involved as when doing push-ups on the palms, but in this position of the hands, the hands receive a different load and the muscles of the hand that are involved in clenching the fist and holding the wrist in the required position are worked out. The bones of the fist also become thicker, become stiffer and somewhat enlarged.

This type of push-up is performed slowly, exhaling at the bottom point and holding for 1 - 2 seconds at the top and bottom points. The back should be straight - the lower back muscles should be tense. The legs are brought together as much as possible. Perform 2 - 3 approaches per workout - the maximum number of times.

Push-ups on fingers

This type of push-ups, like all push-ups, is useful for strengthening the shoulder girdle, pectoral muscles, waist muscles (abs and lumbar muscles), and during push-ups, the muscles of the back and neck actively work. In finger push-ups, the muscles of the forearms, hands, and fingers work very actively, and the corresponding ligaments and joints are strengthened.

This type of push-up actively helps strengthen the hand, which is extremely necessary with a strong blow, otherwise with a strong blow you will simply injure your hand - you will break the metacarpal bone or synovial joint. With such an injury, it is impossible to continue the fight with this hand and most likely this fight will end in your defeat.

Therefore, if you do not want to find yourself in a similar situation, I recommend that you include push-ups on your fingers at least once a week for 2-3 approaches.

Push-ups with cotton

An excellent exercise for developing explosive strength and speed. All the same muscles are involved as when doing push-ups on the palms, but the essence of the exercise is that the muscles contract very quickly and intensely, which helps develop a sharp and powerful push-up. The abdominal and lower back muscles also work powerfully; they rigidly fix the body in a straight position.

Push-ups with clap must be done energetically, pushing with your hands as hard and quickly as possible. Push off the floor powerfully, clap, and quickly return your hands to the floor to absorb the downward movement. Keep your body straight - the abdominal and back muscles are tense. When performing clap push-ups, focus on maximum speed. Do this exercise 2 - 3 sets 1 - 2 times a week.

Pushing out the bar

A very effective exercise is pushing from the chest in a standing position, pushing the bar from a barbell (20-25kg) forward from you at chin level. You can also use rubber bands - expanders - tight cords, tie them to something at a distance of shoulder width, secure the ends in your hands, stand with your back to the place where they are tied and beat through the resistance of the rubber bands.

Developing leg muscle strength

Squats with weights, high jumps, jumping rope.

Developing leg muscle strength is important for training to hit hard. Thus, an accurate blow to the chin area, while simultaneously using the leg muscles, gives a strong impact on the opponent. The development of impact force is 60% determined by the movements of the legs and body.

The most effective methods for developing leg muscles are:

Squats with a barbell; Running uphill or up stairs, running with obstacles; High and long jumps, jumping rope.

Pull-ups

Pull-ups - develop muscle groups of the upper body: lats, biceps, pectoral muscles, upper back, abdominal muscles, forearms.

You need to do two types of pull-ups - slow and fast explosive. When doing pull-ups, you should keep your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. If desired, you can hang weights on your belt. Try to do as many pull-ups as possible.

Slow pull-ups - grab with your palms away from you, slowly - calmly pull yourself up, your chin should rise above the bar, when lifting, exhale when lowering, inhale, hold in the upper position for 1 second and then lower, at the bottom point do not extend your arms to the end - your arms should straighten up to about 95%, hold in the lower position for 1 second and then lift up. Do at least two sets per workout, as many times as possible. This exercise develops back muscles for strength.

Explosive pull -ups are done in almost the same way as slow pull-ups, with the only difference being that the rise up must be done with maximum strength and speed.

Grab with your palms away from you, pull yourself up sharply with all your strength, your chin should rise above the bar, exhale as you rise, then calmly lower yourself, at the lowest point do not straighten your arms to the end - your arms should straighten by about 95%, after reaching the lowest hanging point do the next lift immediately.

Do at least two sets per workout, as many times as possible. This exercise develops back muscles, endurance and explosive strength - the ability to concentrate and release energy.

Ball throws

For the exercise you will need a heavy ball with sand, which boxers use in training. If you don't have one, try making a homemade sandbag. (this exercise can be replaced by hitting the tire with a sledgehammer).

Starting position: feet shoulder-width apart, body straight. Raise the ball high above your head. Throw hard - hit the ball on the floor. Repeat the exercise at least 15 times per set.

Jump Squats

Starting position: stand straight, feet shoulder-width apart, arms at your sides. Squat down until your knees are level with your hips. Jump up with maximum force, while raising your arms up. Repeat the jumps until you run out of strength.

Kettlebell Lift

Kettlebell exercises are very useful for strengthening the hands, shoulders, deltoids and increasing muscle mass.

Raising the kettlebell forward

Place your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Take the weight with one hand, lower it between your legs with your arm straight - the weight should be suspended. Bend your legs slightly at the knees and sharply jerk the weight forward, to a level of 90 degrees in relation to the body, that is, you should hold the weight in front of you at arm's length. At the highest point, your back should be straight. Hold your hand in a horizontal position for 1 - 2 seconds. Repeat for up to ten kettlebell raises with one arm. Then switch hands.

Lifting the kettlebell up

The exercise is similar to the previous one, with the only difference being that the weight is now raised above your head. After 10-15 repetitions, change hands.

Lifting the kettlebell up from the shoulder

Place the weight between your legs. Place your hand on it, pushing your hips back. Pull upward sharply, positioning your hand so as to throw the weight over your shoulder. Now use a push to lift it above your head. Return to the starting position. Do ten lifts of the weight with one hand.

TOOLS

With the help of our recommendations and these fairly easy-to-use tools, you can make your shot even more powerful.

You need to do the following:

• Get a car tire (don’t even look in the direction of your car) that you don’t mind damaging, and bury it securely halfway into the ground. She will receive many blows, and therefore must be static.
• Get a sledgehammer. You determine the weight yourself - strikers use light sledgehammers (8-10 kg), to develop a punch, wrestlers use heavy sledgehammers (10-32 kg) to improve functionality in throws.

Initial hand position

• Boxers keep their hands away from each other
• Wrestlers hold onto the end of the handle with their hands

This position of the hands is due to the fact that in boxing punches are delivered with one hand, and not with two. Therefore, a wide grip creates conditions as similar as possible to a real blow.

What does such training give?

Working with a sledgehammer develops crazy-powerful blows for boxers, and powerful throws for wrestlers. At the same time, the overall endurance of the body develops, which is not neglected in any sport.

But why exactly does a sledgehammer develop a strong blow so well? Because it is so heavy that it forces you to make your work easier by sequentially connecting large muscles. You begin to “help” yourself with large muscles, and gradually get closer to mastering the technique. In this exercise, it is easier to follow the technique than to strain yourself.

If you work only with your hands, soon you won’t even be able to swing them. And it’s inconvenient to work exclusively with them - the muscles of the arms are much weaker than the muscles of the legs and torso. To remove some of the load from your arms, you will resort to using your legs and body. What does this mean for you? These are exactly the factors that will help you achieve a strong punch! You are starting to develop your striking technique! The impulse goes from the leg, through the back, arms, and straight to the tire! This is the whole secret of working with a sledgehammer and a tire.

Oh once, and again, and many, many times!

Again, it all depends on your individual training. For beginners, a 10 kg sledgehammer for 10 repetitions may seem like hellish torture. And an experienced athlete will swing a sledgehammer with a weight of 20 kg 200 times, and will not even get tired. So judge for yourself. But in our opinion, you should aim for a hundred repetitions in one approach. A workout can contain from two to four such approaches.

The main thing is to follow the technique!

Other recommendations for increasing impact force

Use a wrist expander regularly. Buy the hardest manual expander and work alternately with both hands. Be sure to squeeze the expander sharply, applying all your strength. The exercise helps develop the interdigital muscles and forearms. As a result, the fist will become stronger and tougher.

Exercises with a sledgehammer are no less effective. Take a sledgehammer and start hitting the car tire. During the exercise, exactly those muscles that are involved in striking are activated. Strikes should be delivered not through the movement of the back, but as much as possible through the strength of the arms.

Practice punches on the “paws”. Hit as if the target was a few centimeters further than the paw. Try to seem to punch through the projectile. This exercise will help you not develop the speed of the strike, hit harder, and practice a series of strikes.

The “shadow boxing” exercise will help you develop speed and sharpness. Perform the exercise daily for at least ten minutes.

The most effective blows are those that the enemy does not expect or see. You need to hit unexpectedly so that the enemy does not have time to react.

All of the above exercises help develop punching power, make the muscles and tendons of the arms stronger and more resilient. If performed regularly, the results will be noticeable within a few months.

Exercises with a sledgehammer technique on video

Some useful tips on sledgehammer exercise techniques: • Carefully select the weight of the sledgehammer. Aim for a high number of repetitions, about 15 on each arm. For starters, a 10kg sledgehammer is the best choice. Over time, you can try working with heavier equipment. • If you don’t have a tire, you can use regular tires, which are found in everyone’s yard, in schools, and on playgrounds. They perform the same functions and cushion. • Without gloves you will have a better feel for the instrument and this type of work is considered beneficial. But, if you feel that you have delicate skin, then it is better to start working with gloves. • Never be distracted while working to avoid injury.

sledgehammer

Pinned in a corner by Nebenzi’s criticism, his Ukrainian opponent suddenly remembered Skabeeva. The United Nations expressed concern about the law on the state language adopted in Ukraine and put into effect on July 16. This was discussed today at a meeting of the UN Security Council convened by the Russian side. “The Law on State Language in its current form does not provide sufficient legislative clarity and does not guarantee the protection of the linguistic rights of national minorities. It would be ideal if Ukraine’s language policy were carried out while fully preserving the rights of national minorities, including in the linguistic sphere,” Observer quotes OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Lamberto Zannier.

He pointed out to Kyiv the need to take into account the rights of national minorities, including in matters of language and education, since Square has obligations to the OSCE in this regard.

“A balanced, pragmatic linguistic policy must be achieved through incentives, not punishment,” Zannier stressed.

UN Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo spoke even more harshly, noting that the Ukrainian authorities resolved many controversial issues in the scandalous law in the final version, but it “still causes concern,” TASS writes.

“The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recommends that the Ukrainian government develop, based on the language law, a law on the implementation of the rights of national minorities of Ukraine to ensure an appropriate balance between the protection of minority rights and the preservation of the state language as a tool for the integration of society,” she said.

DiCarlo added that the document must be developed “without any delay.” At the meeting, as always, Russian permanent representative to the organization Vasily Nebenzya spoke brightly and emotionally. Commenting on the speech of his Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Yelchenko that the language issue is an internal matter of Nezalezhnaya, and the Russian Federation is simply distracting the whole world “from the fifth anniversary of the downing of the Malaysian plane and from the issue of implementing the Minsk agreements,” the Russian pointed out to the Ukrainian that this “plot” is not such .

“If we don’t take the official “Maidan” statistics, according to which Russian is allegedly practically no longer spoken in Ukraine, any other sources and surveys show that Russian in Ukraine is still the native language or the preferred language for communication for the majority of the country’s population,” believes Nebenzya.

In addition, he noted, the document signed by the previous president of the country, Petro Poroshenko, “directly violates the spirit and letter of the set of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, approved by Security Council resolution 2202,” RIA Novosti reports.

The Ukrainians still had the last word at the meeting. Pan Yelchenko decided to make free advertising for the Rossiya 1 TV channel and teased the Russian plenipotentiary: “He really confused the Security Council with the famous talk show with Skabeeva “60 Minutes”.”

But commentators on Ukrainian media websites chose different words for the discussion they saw at the UN (punctuation and spelling were preserved in the originals):

“Well, this is no longer a knife in the back from the “allies”, this is a sledgehammer to the head,” “PACE, the UN, the OSCE are all corrupt skins,” “The world is tired of whiners. They told the Ukrainians *** (they would treat them badly) and would throw them out, they didn’t believe it...”, “It wasn’t bad that they hit the pots on the heads of the Svidomites with a UN ladle.”

Russian journalist Olga Skabeeva also remained silent for a short time. Responding to Mr. Yelchenko’s remark, she humorously asked the Ukrainian not to instill fear in the respected organization.

“I have long been aware that the permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN is our fan. But why get so worked up? And stop scaring the UN with me, Volodymyr Yuriyovich, be kind,” the TV presenter wrote on the Telegram channel.

Author Evgeniy DNEPROVSKY

Source: utro.ru

A boxer nicknamed Russian Sledgehammer wants to join MMA. They are ready to pay him 2.5 million for the first fight

In boxing, Dmitry Kudryashov dropped people with one blow. Now he is being offered to try it in MMA. Details on Match TV.

Why should Kudryashov go to MMA?

Dmitry Kudryashov is 33 years old. In 26 fights, he has 23 victories - all of them by knockout, as befits a boxer nicknamed the Russian Sledgehammer.

A month ago, Kudryashov suffered a sensitive defeat in Yekaterinburg from the African Ilunga Makabu, threw himself out of fights for titles and instantly received an offer from MMA.

Kudryashov explained to Match TV correspondent Alexander Lyutikov why he would not be afraid to go into the cage, where they would try to kick and wrestle him.

— Fight Nights promoter Kamil Gadzhiev said that in October you can fight according to MMA rules. How true is this? Is there a contract?

— There was no signing of the contract. Kamil and I discussed whether I wanted to compete in MMA, could I fight in MMA? I replied: “Of course I could.”

- Why did you answer that way? Boxers usually answer this question differently.

- Well, why couldn’t I? I love to fight. I don't care what the rules are. I once competed in hand-to-hand combat. And in the army he spoke for his unit, and then continued. He fulfilled the master of sports standard - he was in the top three at the Russian Championship. This is not new to me. I generally performed everywhere. Where it was possible to fight, I went there.

“Then let’s check out a long-standing rumor: that you took part in football-related fights.”

- I heard that about myself too. But no, I never took part there.

Ilunga Makabu in a duel with Dmitry Kudryashov / Photo: © RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisitsyn

- When was the last time you fought?

— When I was engaged in hand-to-hand combat. About ten years ago. But I didn’t really fight in hand-to-hand combat competitions either—I won a lot by knockouts. The gloves are small there, so the blows are harder.

— If you were offered an MMA fight now, how much time would you take to prepare?

- At least three months. We have a good MMA school in Rostov-on-Don. Perhaps it will be the Peresvet club. I previously spoke with Sasha Shabliy from this club. In general, many offered help. Vova Mineev recently said: “If necessary, I will help with sparring and training.” My close friend Lesha Efremov competes in MMA and is ready to help. There are no problems with this.

The optimal category would be up to 93 kg. I definitely won’t do 84. My weight in the off-season can be over 100 kg. Boxing has been difficult for me and 91 lately.

Kudryashov’s last victory in boxing looked like this:

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— Is your desire to enter the cage due to the fact that your boxing career has slowed down?

- Why did she slow down - because I lost the last fight? It only depends on me whether to slow it down or not. There are still enough people who want to beat me, so I think there will be offers in boxing.

— Fist fights are gaining popularity - both boxers and MMA fighters go there. Would you be interested in testing yourself without gloves? There's a lot of money there too.

— Do you think that I have only financial motivation? I would fight there even if there wasn't a lot of money there. It's interesting. I roughly understand how to fight without gloves. Once upon a time I was young and hot.

— According to your inner feelings, will you fight in an MMA cage in 2020?

— It all depends on the offer. I wouldn’t say that that’s it, I’m leaving boxing for MMA. I want to box. There are still goals in boxing, and I would like to try myself in MMA. You can combine it - my promoter won’t be against it, I have complete freedom in this regard. In general, the conversation with Kamil Gadzhiev was interesting. I would speak. In MMA, you want to be a bright fighter, and not fight somewhere in the background.

WBC Silver title holder Dmitry Kudryashov and Nigerian boxer Olanrewaju Durodola / Photo: © “World of Boxing”

How much are you willing to pay him?

Fight Nights promoter Kamil Gadzhiev did not tell the Match TV correspondent the names of Dmitry Kudryashov’s possible opponents.

“And I propose: let’s all together determine an opponent for Kudryashov,” says Gadzhiev. - Such an opponent who would be interesting to the audience. Send us your options.

— What kind of fee does an athlete of Dmitry Kudryashov’s level deserve in MMA?

— I think the amount will be about 2,500,000 rubles. This is adequate money.

For comparison: not so long ago Gadzhiev stated that he was ready to pay Alexander Emelianenko and Sergei Kharitonov 10,000,000 rubles each for a fight with each other. This amount suited Emelianenko, but seemed insufficient to Kharitonov.

How did boxers perform in MMA?

Boxing is not considered the best base for transitioning to mixed martial arts, but there are exceptions. For example, the fourth place in the rating of the category up to 61 kg in the UFC is occupied by master of sports in boxing Petr Yan. He came to MMA at the age of 20 - he quickly mastered wrestling in a standing position and on the ground and began to kick smartly.

But of the famous boxers, only two decided to switch to MMA - James Toney and Ray Mercer. Both are former world boxing champions, and both have fought former UFC heavyweight champions.

Tony, at 42, lost to 37-year-old Randy Couture. They held the stand for 15 seconds. Three minutes later, Tony was strangled. Tony was unable to land a single blow in this fight.

And Ray Mercer, at 48 years old, spent 9 seconds knocking out 35-year-old Tim Sylvia, who for some reason decided that there was no need to fight the boxer.