If Your Hook Sucks, It’s Your Fault – And Your Arm’s Not Helping You

Let’s talk about the hook—that beautiful, devastating, knockout-making curveball of the striking world that separates the champs from the chumps.

You’d think after 200 amateur fights and ten pro bouts, a fighter would know how to throw a damn hook, right? Wrong. Even high-level pros get called out by commentators for having spaghetti-noodle hooks. Why? Because people are still out here throwing hooks with their arms, like they’re trying to slap a wasp away from their face instead of delivering righteous violence.

Listen up. If your hook is floppy, weak, or makes you wobble like a car dealership inflatable tube man, it’s time to face the truth:
You’ve been arm-punching your way through life—and it ends today.

It Ain’t the Arm. It’s the Whole Damn Body.

I broke it down like this video—go watch it: when you're throwing a hook and you're only using your arm, you are wasting 90% of your potential power. Your arm weighs like six pounds. Maybe eight if you’ve been hitting the protein shakes. That’s all you’ve got if you're not recruiting your legs, your core, your hips—your entire freakin’ soul.

You don’t throw a hook from your arm. You throw it through your body. You want your legs driving into the floor like you’re trying to break concrete. You want your hips twisting like a tornado with a grudge. You want your core tight enough to bounce a quarter off of.

We’re talking about rotational violence, not casual street slap fighting.

The Drill That Separates the Warriors from the Wet Noodles

So what do we do at Steve Woolridge’s Krav Maga & Fitness Center when we see a sad, limp hook?
We fix it. Aggressively.

Here’s one way I train fighters (and regular humans who don’t want to die in a parking lot):
We add resistance. We use structure. We make you earn every ounce of impact.

He had Jamie (who already throws a decent hook) hit against a blocker arm to simulate resistance. But the goal wasn’t just to hit it—it was to smash through it with full-body power.

▶️ First, she loaded the hook from the ground up—twisting the body, driving through the hips, and aiming to hit my arm with her bicep like she meant it.
▶️ Then, she threw the same hook with just her arm—and the difference was laughable. Weak. Sad. The kind of punch that says, “Please don’t hit me back.”

Finally, she came back and brought the bodyweight-driven, apocalypse-level hook—and boom. Night and day.

Want to Know How to Train Like That?

Good. Because we’re here to train warriors, not flailers.

If your hook looks like you're trying to pet a cat midair, come see us. We’ll rewire your brain, your body, and your biomechanics until your hook feels like it was forged in a steel mill.

We don’t do fluffy. We don’t do halfway. We train for the real world—where the only thing standing between you and danger is what you’ve built into your muscle memory.

And if you think your hook is good, show up anyway.
We’ll see if it still works when I put an arm in front of it.

Ready to level up your hook and everything else?
📍 Come train at Steve Woolridge’s Krav Maga & Fitness Center.
👊 We don’t build fighters. We build survivors.