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Barehanded boxing is not worse. One of the reasons for the excellent track record of safety in Mixed Martial Arts is the lack of reliance on heavy padded glove
by ZenPro 12y ago
Barehanded boxing is not worse.
One of the reasons for the excellent track record of safety in Mixed Martial Arts is the lack of reliance on heavy padded gloves.
A traditional boxing glove spreads the impact across a wider area resulting in greater likelihood of brain swelling and life-threatening injury.
Lighter gloves or bare knuckle impacts result in less internal swelling but greater likelihood of skin tears, cuts or out right deflected strikes.
Other myths you have posted -
If anything, the evolution of humans as bipedal creatures should have made the legs into the weapons of choice
Nope. Bipedal animals, particularly humans, are not evolved for effective lower leg striking. It takes years of training to be able to throw a kick which balances effectiveness, accuracy and power versus the risk of leaving oneself vulnerable.
You throw a kick and I will try and gouge your eyes out with my thumbs by grappling you. Let's see who has evolved the greater defence.
While the most direct way to hurt someone is actually a straight movement towards someone
Again, most martial artists and boxers will agree that an effective straight line jab is far less powerful than a hook or uppercut thrown with precision to the lower chin, lower jaw or temple. Very few knockouts ever arise from a straight line punch.
Even gated martials arts such as Wing Chun advocate coming in at an oblique angle whereever possible.
IMHO, the most ideal strike a human can give without injuring themselves would be from the shin or heel
In close quarters the most effective strike you can deliver to a standing human opponent is a knee strike or elbow strike. It takes repeated shin strikes in Muay Thai to weaken or disable the upper thighs or ribs.
- peterwwillis 12y agoI meant barehanded is "worse" in terms of it being easier to break the tiny bones in your hands. Even if you strengthen your fists over years, they're still weaker than other body parts you could strike with. The skull is a lot more difficult to break (unless you hit the temple and your knuckles are calcified as fuck) All the rest of your descriptions of fighting are based on the evolution of martial arts or a skilled practitioner. What i'm talking about is people who have zero formal training, save for perhaps getting in lots of fights. You seem to overlook the rest of what I wrote, where I describe how people are not built for straight-line strikes, how animals might kick with their hind legs but we don't find that to be natural, how kicks are more difficult to use against higher vulnerable targets, etc. We're basically agreeing, but with different words :) I don't know why anyone goes for the ribs with a roundhouse if it can just be checked with shins or forearms (and takes more energy for the kicker). If you just make repeated blows to the IT band, even if they can stand the pain, very soon they won't be able to stand on that leg. Same for hooks to the radial so they can't lift their guard or keep their wrist straight. Close fighting is also a bit silly in terms of natural/practical fights; if you're close enough to connect with an elbow, you might as well go for the eyes or throat or work around to a rear naked choke, or something.
- ZenPro 12y agoIt appears we are on the same page - apologies for the harshness of my reply. It was a legacy from another thread. You know your fighting. :-)