What's stronger? a fist positioned vertically, or a fist positioned horizontally (common fist position).?

Question

just wondering which was more effective in a fight.

Answer 1

d**n...who do u want 2 punch? Lol...

Answer 2

Just personel preferance, but the style I train uses a fist position tilted about 20 degrees inward from vertical. In this position your muscles and bones in your forearm do not get bound and twisted, which slows your punch down as it does in a horizantil punch, which Aaron J pointed out. The vertical fist also allows for you to keep your elbow down much better, which puts more of your body into the strike. There is also less chance of having your arm grabbed and a lock put on it.

Most Okinawin styles that are tarined correctly do not turn all the way over to horizantil. That being said I have been hit with a horizantil punch before and it does hurt. Just my preferance after doing it for 18 years is the fist with the 20% inward tilt.

Answer 3

in a study done comparing the most popular martial arts and fighting techniques it was established that boxing has the strongest punching power.  By that rationale a verticle punch utilizing one's hips and turning power can be massively devastating.

Answer 4

very possibly the vertical fist. do not underestimate the strength of the vertical fist.

Answer 5

Neither is the strongest. The verticle fist is easily bent, and the horizontal fist twists the forearm bones and allows for easier injuries on the one punching. That being said sometimes the object of the technique requires those fists. Though they are generally done on soft tissue.

Answer 6

i think it's not "who or what is stronger" it's "where is the critical points to hit"