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I played a arcade machine called the boxer where you strike it and it measures how hard you hit. I was going to post my score and ask what is ok. At about 3 months of martial art training I could only hit about 230 when I was 155 lbs and 18 and after about a year I could hit about 360 at 160 lbs and about a year later then max I could hit was 420 at 165 before you laugh about how i dont hit that hard I wanted to say I didnt do anything active my entire life. I started lifting weights and doubled my lifting weight I was wondering at currently 179 how hard I could hit. Any guess advice on hard I hit when I was small and what is average pretty good and realy hard for my size.

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Nothing to do with weight. I know the machine you're talking about and I wouldn't use it as an accurate reading at all. It's just something fun that you do as you pass by. If you want your punches to be strong, work on technique, not brute force. Someone who has good technique will beat someone who relies on brute force almost every time. I never bother with how hard of a reading my strike can get, it's just not worth the worry.

Martial arts training is 30% classroom training, 70% solo training.


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I agree with Zaine. Something like that, you want to have more accurately measured at a sports science lab of some kind, where they can measure PSI of a strike, or something like that.

On a funny dad with a daughter side note, our cinema had an arcade thing like that, and my daughter was there with her "boyfriend" at the time, and they were running and taking wild swings at it, getting scores of not quite 1000. I put in a quarter, took my stance, did a simple right cross, and ratcheted it up to over 1000 pretty easily. "Boyfriends" eyes got nice and big and round. Accurate? No. Fun to intimidate? Abs-frickin-lutely. :D

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I remember those machines. When I was stationed on Okinawa they have this big arcade called Sega World that had one of those machines in it. A few friends and I went there one night, and we all tested ourselves on that machine. I felt like the top dog of the night when I out-punched everyone as a welterweight (can't remember what it was exactly but it was around 1500 or so), especially my big Samoan buddy. That same week, I sparred a lightweight and it was incredibly discouraging to me as my "ultra powerful punches" barely fazed him, and I was hitting him with everything I had. It's a machine for fun, it's not scientifically relevant.

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