Improve my striking?

Question

how can i improve it?

Answer 1

Take a martial arts form based on striking and practice as much as possible to improve

Answer 2

I am with Bluto on the striking aspect. Any good stand up style can improve your striking, depending on how it is trained. You want a school that does spar with contact. If you are talking hands only then boxing cannot be beat.

if you are talking full body, including knees and elbows, along with clinch fighting, then any of the following will do nicely:

Almost any Okinawin karate, as long as the school spars with contact, and uses progressive resistance in it's self defense teaching. Be aware that it willprobably take longer then most of teh other styles here because it is designed to take a long time just to get the basics down, the same with the japanese styles listed below.

Some Japanese karate's

Shotokan

kyokoshin are two that come to mind

Sanda/Sanshou (a style of Kung Fu that is very similiar to Muay Thai, but incorpertaes throws and take downs also) these fighters on a steady basis beat muay Thai fighters.

Other styles of Kung fu, most of which take longer to get good at as with karate.

Muay Thai

in the end it will be how you are taught, how you train, and how hard you train that will be the determining factors.

Answer 3

Do you want accuracy,power or both.

My 1st suggestion would be to do a little research into what art covers what you require.Boxing immediately springs to mind.As it covers speed,power,accuracy.Though the training can be very physical also its a bit hit and miss on finding a good gym.If thats for you away you go.I have mentioned these sites before but they cover just about everything anyone should know about power hitting and kicking.

In fact they claim to be able to double or even treble your power in just a few minutes.I know they work.

Answer 4

hit a punching bag

Answer 5

yes- absolutely, take a striking specific art and make sure the school trains realistically-

typically sportative oriented arts on average train more realistic but that is not always the case.

boxing, muai thai, san da, etc.

finding a good karate dojo or hung gar (cma) is more difficult (those are examples- there are TONS more arts, not reccomending a specific one), but not impossible- just look at striking arts that have more realistic training methodologies.

Answer 6

Muay Thai IMO is the best striking art it's very brutal and most TRUE Muay Thai teachers not only train you hard but enforce strong conditioning. I train Muay Thai and BJJ and my teacher is ruthless with training and conditioning, as a result I have a 7-0 record MMA, shadow boxing a great idea to I do it for 25 minutes a day, also work on balance and technique thats extremly important.

Answer 7

This quite an easy question. There was a traditional type of training used in muay thai called chok manao. Its a type of training by tying lemons to trees at about neck height. They would then gently punch, elbow, avoid, and defend the lemon. It helps inprove accuracy, avoidibilty, defense, and persission. I'd say tye a small lemon to something and do they same thing. You better know some type of martial arts cause its easier if u know what ur doing.