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post #46 of 59
2/22/10 at 1:47pm
Do you mean knuckles? Unless you're punching limp-wristed style, you really shouldn't be hurting your wrists when you punch.
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post #47 of 59
2/22/10 at 2:21pm
I've always read it protected the wrists. Which was why back in the good old days of 'fisticuffsmanship', men held their fists while punching with their knuckles lining up vertically rather than horizontally the way they do today, to protected their wrists from strain.

Apparently, back in those days, boxing matches had no round limits and broken wrists and gouged out eyes were a common occurrence.
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post #48 of 59
2/22/10 at 7:12pm
Big a I think your mixing up heart and chin a little. Up bringing etc really has nothing to do with how you can take a punch. Yes a guy who was raised tough may still have a bad chin, but may have more heart and grab to stay up etc. And to the post above it was called London rules where every knockdown was a round.
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post #49 of 59
2/23/10 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by bBoy JEe View Post
Do you mean knuckles? Unless you're punching limp-wristed style, you really shouldn't be hurting your wrists when you punch.
I always thought that it was a bit of both, although alot of credit goes to the wrapping -- especially for protecting the wrist. For what its worth, in the past my wrists would get sore if I really tee'd off on someone's face.
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post #50 of 59
2/23/10 at 12:17pm
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Third, practice. Getting hit in the face, that is. The first time you get hit in the face hard, you kind of want to curl up and die. The 1000th time, it's not so bad.

yup. I am currently struggling to chew thanks to a jaw that was slugged twice by a newb three hours ago. Fucker had no technique, but I'll give him credit, as I moved back out of range (he's considerably bigger than me so I had to get in and get out), he twice threw these baseball style overhand rights that twice landed flush on my jaw. This means me = stoopid.

Anyhow, he commented after that I had a great chin (knees never gave out, both times I looked up and kept at him), and I was like 'dude, that thing's been hit a zillion times before'...you just kinda get used to it.
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post #51 of 59
2/23/10 at 1:27pm
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yup. I am currently struggling to chew thanks to a jaw that was slugged twice by a newb three hours ago. Fucker had no technique, but I'll give him credit, as I moved back out of range (he's considerably bigger than me so I had to get in and get out), he twice threw these baseball style overhand rights that twice landed flush on my jaw. This means me = stoopid.

Haha. I get caught in this trap often. You want to win every exchange with a noob, and end up with a face full fist for your troubles. Or maybe I'm just emulating Big Nog (get hit until the third round, then submit your opponent), though that hasn't been working out so well for him recently.
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post #52 of 59
2/23/10 at 1:31pm
My Pride Hurts.
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post #53 of 59
2/23/10 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by West24 View Post
Big a I think your mixing up heart and chin a little. Up bringing etc really has nothing to do with how you can take a punch. Yes a guy who was raised tough may still have a bad chin, but may have more heart and grab to stay up etc. And to the post above it was called London rules where every knockdown was a round.
Sometimes it blends together. I remember sparring against one of my friends and as the round closed I started to black out a bit, but I sucked it up and toughed it out. Had it been someone else I might of just taken the knee (or back more likely).
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post #54 of 59
7/23/10 at 10:39am
Sherdog article on gloves

Interesting article that adresses the issues I have pointed out previously.

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The price of unnecessarily heavy gloves in martial arts is paid in the coin of bodily injury. It has been argued that heavier gloves slow a fighter's punch, but a (albeit limited) study by PK Smith showed no significant difference in fist velocities for bare hands, karate gloves, "thumbless" gloves and boxing gloves. It appears there is a plateau to human striking speed that relatively small variances in weight do not significantly affect. What did vary in the study was the momentum imparted to the target: 25 percent higher in boxing gloves than bare fists. In fighting that means 25 percent more force imparted to a fighter's body and brain.

anyone have a link to the study?
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post #55 of 59
7/23/10 at 7:05pm
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Sherdog article on gloves

Interesting article that adresses the issues I have pointed out previously.



anyone have a link to the study?

Might have been one of the following:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...ed=0CAIQqAQwBA

Also check the citations of those articles, might be in there as well.
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post #56 of 59
7/24/10 at 12:06am
I always felt that if you found a fighter with really good boxing skills (not just striking but body movement, etc) and taught him to sprawl like a champ and some good BJJ skills, that dude would be unbeatable.

I really like George Sotiropoulos, good boxing, excellent BJJ, and dude can rubber guard like a champ.

And the guy that said MMA is safer than boxing. Have you seen those flimsy MMA gloves? Granted, fights are only 3/5 rounds, but I would rather take a haymaker by a guy with boxing gloves than MMA gloves.
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post #57 of 59
7/24/10 at 12:21am
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padded gloves are really just there to protect your hands, not your opponent

they may reduce lbs per sq/inch but i doubt it makes a difference in the sport

I disagree. They make a big difference in knock-out ability. This is why MMA can result in knockouts earlier/quicker than boxing. I'd also like to see the actual study.
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post #58 of 59
7/24/10 at 1:33am
I wonder what causes one person to have a "glass" jaw and another person to have one that can stand up to repeated punishment?
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post #59 of 59
7/25/10 at 4:16pm
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And the guy that said MMA is safer than boxing. Have you seen those flimsy MMA gloves? Granted, fights are only 3/5 rounds, but I would rather take a haymaker by a guy with boxing gloves than MMA gloves.

Haymaker from guy with MMA gloves, fight is probably over. Haymaker from guy with boxing gloves, one point in the round in the judges eyes.
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