The Correct Way To Throw HOOKS in BOXING | Thumb Up or Thumb In

The Correct Way To Throw HOOKS in BOXING | Thumb Up or Thumb In. Do you want to know how to throw proper hooks in boxing? In this video, Tony Jeffries shares the correct position of your hands when throwing a boxing hook punch.

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0:00 Thumb Up or Thumb In When Throwing the HOOK in BOXING
1:03 Throwing lead hook w/ thumb facing me
1:34 Throwing lead hook w/ thumb up
1:54 Which is better?
2:30 The most important thing when throwing lead hooks

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[cjwilson]

Agreed the “thumb up” hook is less strain on the shoulder.

[eon]

Thumb up. Listen to me. Don't listen to the professional boxer, listen to the random guy in the comments section.

[davidbourne]

What a great channel, no bullshit, no waffle and no wasted time just good advice. Thank you.

[zius]

This channel is pure quality. I kinda don't want others to find out about this, but at the same time i want everyone to see this channel :')

[christos]

Thumb ub. Less risk to break the hand (very important in bare knuckle fights)

[rxge.edxts.]

For Short range I throw with the vertical fist and when I throw at Long range I Throw with Horizontal Fist

[DanMasterBlaster]

Tony, you’re a legend thank you! I feel very privileged that you did this video and gave me a shout out. My boys we’re impressed! As you said it’s been a question debated for ages and is continuously debated and seems to be a very divisive subject. I’m 42 and still box with my 3 boys of 22, 12 and 7 and we all enjoyed this video. Their coach for the amateurs will only allow them to hook to the head with a horizontal palm because in amateur boxing, apparently a vertical fist strike to the head is not permitted. I personally prefer the vertical fist for the reasons that you mentioned and also it’s easy to transition from a left hook to the body followed by a left hook to the head with less wrist movement. I also find if my timing and distance is slightly out with the head hook I can hurt my wrist with a horizontal fist and I have no injury issues with a vertical fist. When you watch professional boxing, the vast majority of knockouts you see are with a vertical fist. It seems to me that in the amateur arena the horizontal fist dominates and at professional it moves to vertical fist, perhaps due to the more strict rules in amateur and more relaxed laws at pro level. Thanks again, great video as always!

[JAvellino]

Thank you for this! The gyms I've been at have both given me a hard time about throwing hooks with my thumb up. One even restricted me from sparring and the heavy bag until I "learned to turn over my hook."

It is far more comfortable for me to throw it thumb up. It's really more of a 45° angle, but it's what works with my anatomy. After 2 surgeries to my left shoulder, I gave up on making the trainers happy, and went with what felt best.

[mickmullaney]

Such an excellent channel, Tony. Any punch is a tool to be used and adapted for a specific purpose. It is easy to sprain your thumb by punching (thumb facing inwards) and catching opponents forearm. By turning the thumb up, it stops this happening and your glove fits better into the gap made by opponents block. Thank you very much. Please keep up the great work.

[olovikka]

I also learnt the thumb down hook back in the day and I still find it very good. Gets me more power to the punch. Sounds silly but try and find out. Also gets more easily behind the opponent's glove.

[joshuajamesbrittain]

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Again, thank you for putting out this content!

[danhiggins]

Thank you! In 20+ years of coaching I’ve followed the advice of whoever happened to be teaching the course at the time. Canada came under the influence in the 70s of an Eastern Block coach who’d come up in the Soviet system. When I boxed and for the first years as a coach I took that European teaching as gospel. Later on I started getting tips from old pros, and my ideas began to change. I swear, I’ve gone through at least 5 different methods of throwing the left hook. I finally took the advice of an old pro, who said “do what feels comfortable”. Thank you for reinforcing that advice.

[dannytq]

This has been on my mind recently as I joined a gym which taught it with thumbs towards. Thank you for this! Hands down the best boxing instructional channel on YouTube. Tony is an amazing coach. 👍

[patrykarciszewski]

Definitely thumb up 👍. The reason is that hitting bag with "thumb in", people have tendency to hit with a greater stress on a second "pointing" finger and it leads straight to injuries around wrist and the finger I mentioned. Hitting with thumb up not only keeps wrist tight but also "force" to hit with a whole fist.

[unidaspandemia]

To be honest, the origin of the universe and wheter to put up or straight your thump during a lead hook, are both the main question I always do my self when I´m in existencialist mood.

[martinyourn]

I watched a lot of your videos Tony and what led me to subscribe today was you saying "Whatever you prefer!" I've been doing boxing and martial arts since 1978 and you saying those three words tells me you really know your stuff. Traditional techniques are essential for a beginner, but as you gain experience, you develop your own unique personal style that works for you.

[Tony_Jeffries]

What is your style when throwing the hook - thumb in or thumb up? Comment down Below!!

[MM-lppp]

Both hooks are effective and it also depends on how the boxer is built (biomechanics) etc. I can punch hard to a hard solid heavy bag because I have strong bones not because of muscles etc.. Foreman and Shavers had strong bones same as Hearns those guys could punch both hooks as their bones wouldn’t suffer.
Thumb up also goes from the bicep and the other one more from the front shoulder.

[h.b]

I was always taught thumb in, and land with the two big knuckles

[stephenjones]

I came into boxing after years as a martial artist. In martials arts it was elbow high so thumb facing you. In sparring I like both but in larger gloves and especially on heavier bags it has always been thumb up. I totally agree about the risk of injury being higher with thumb in but I do believe its the larger gloves that change things. You gave a great answer without giving an answer, superb video thank-you.