Wow, just wow. With all these bodily movements involved in a simple variation of a punch, it makes me just wonder and appreciate how these fighters are able to just ‘do them’ as though they were second nature.

What I meant by “whipping a punch” was basically involving your shoulders in the punching motion. Snapping your shoulders like a whip as you’re extending your arm to punch seems to also give it more force. That’s what I was told

Thanks very much

I have heard trainers talk about the “snapping” of the shoulder when trying to throw a punch.

It almost seems like you hit harder when you ‘whip’ a punch into someone (if you will) instead of forcefully just driving your arm and fist into someone/something.

Thank you for the explanation. I wanted a simple explanation, and I got it. I remember learning about “inertia” in highschool.

Does this “inertia” play a factor in how hard a human can hit? I think it ties into the analogy of the car that you wrote.