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That makes a lot of sense, thank youHi. Learning proper form, with a strong focus on on relaxation and proper weight transfer, can get you pretty heavy hands.
Wow, martial science,Heavy hands as in the ability to punch hard? That's certainly trainable. It's an important part of what any striking art should be teaching.
To expand on O'Malley's answer, relevant factors include
Of course, pure muscular strength and size play a role, but those can be trained as well.
- Recruiting major muscle groups to generate power synergistically (i.e. hitting with power from the legs, hips, waist, and back, not just the arms)
- Having good structure at the moment of impact so power doesn't leak out and your entire body mass contributes to the impact
- Relaxation, so that you only activate the muscles which contribute to the force you are generating and you don't end up with opposing muscle groups fighting against each other and slowing you down.
- Transfer of body weight into your target (this includes footwork considerations and sometimes the use of gravity)
- Proper timing in how your muscle groups activate relative to each other and the moment of impact.
- Proper distancing so you aren't over-extended or jammed up at the moment of impact
Here's a little video I threw together covering different methods for power generation in punching. It doesn't cover every single methodology, but I got most of them in there.