Abstract: A manual thrust gauge is comprised of a frame having either a hand grip or a wrist strap, there being a weighted member movably mounted to the frame and restrained by a spring which moves relative to a fixed member, one of these members comprising a scale and the other being a pointer and the movable member being releasably detained in any one of several displaced positions so that the user may thrust his hand as in a boxing punch, a karate chop or the like and the pointer will register on the scale the relative acceleration or deceleration of the punch.