W Tapping

W Tapping
It might help to have the keystrokes mod on while practicing this.
In Minecraft, you deal the maximum knockback when you are sprinting. However, this only applies to the first hit you get on a player while sprinting. Every hit after the first hit will deal about half as much knockback, until you stop sprinting, and start sprinting again.

To fix this issue, we reset our sprint by releasing w after every hit. This ensures that every hit will deal maximum knockback. This is essential to starting and holding combos.