so hard it just took the fight right out of you? c’mon guys admit. Stories too.
I was fighting a boxer in my boyz basement one time. We were pretty evenly matched and he got me with a tight right hook off the jab. Took it right on the cheekbone. I jumped back, waved my hands like that’s it, and quit. I almost cried from that one.
Ever been hit hard enough to make you cry?
yeah. i took an eskrima stick in the kidney hard enough to make me stop and weep. hell, i’d have shot myself in the head if i could’ve gotten the barrel through the metal face grill. that sucked.
and the guy that did it, he’s a catholic priest now. the world’s a funny place.
stuart b.
I was…
I was in a mixed martial arts tourney a few years back and came in on this Karate guy who kicked me so hard in the stomach that he knocked me on my ass! I also was doing some boxing sparring and this guy caught me with a right hook just under my left ear that didn’t allow my head to move with the momentum of the punch. That rung my bell big time!!!
Black eyes, Bloody noses, KO’d by punches and kicks, staggered a couple times by strikes, dislocated both arms a couple time through the years.
I spent a few years working out at different schools because my job made me travel alot and I wasnt teaching full time. When your a Black belt with no home its like being a gunfighter, everyone wants to know how good you are.
No matter how hard you get hit you have to stay standing and keep fighting, people will say they want to go light and then pop you to try to look good in front of the other students. you dont want to lose face either so you shake it off like it was nothing and come back twice as hard. When its done you smile like it was an easy workout and go on with your day.
The KO’s were by my own instructor, man he could hit hard and fast.
I was boxing with a short 150lb guy…he hit me with a lead hook punch to my chin…I dropped! I couldn’t command my legs to stand.
I was kickboxing with a bb tkd guy and got hit by a spinning back kick to the abs…I stopped and dropped to one knee.
I was thai boxing with my instructor and toss out a roundhouse and he lifted his shin…I dropped holding my shin!
Afterwards I have rarely done any striking sparring cause I SUCK AS A STANDUP FIGHTER!!!
Way back in high school when I was taking a karate class, I was sparring with my instructor. he was about 5’10, 250 lbs of muscle with a soft layer over it, his calves were about the size of my head. I stepped towards him quickly just as he shot out a straight kick. They said I was out for about 20 seconds! It was all the bright stars that woke me up 
About 4 years ago I took a 2 hook combination that I cringe about to this day.
His left hand/front hand hooked around and cought me on my right kidney full force in the back. That hid made me arch my back made my knees go weak. He followed that up bringing his right hook up into my gut. The first hit knocked the breath out of me, and the second actually knocked me out.
Just for a brief moment but it dropped me to my knees and I still didn’t get my breath back for a minute.
I p!ssed blood for a little while.
Man that one did take the fight right out of me.
JWT
roundhouse side of the head. Thought I could stand it up and tried to keep going forward. Big mistake. saw blue-white-blue-white-blue in rapid succession.(Ceiling of the gym was white, mat was blue) Literally spun over as I fell to the mat
I explained recently in another thread that a fellow student, very strong, caught me with a right hook while we were sparring that made my legs turn to jelly. I didn’t fall, though. My teacher yelled break and the student had to vomit immediately, he has problems with this. By the time a minute went by we got back into it. I kinda wanted to stop, but I pushed myself to keep going. I was still dazed but I fought through it for the rest of the round plus another round. Believe me, I was more reluctant to step in, as soon as we got past the jab range I would rush in and clinch. I had a mild concussion afterwards which lasted about a week. It was a good lesson, although I was upset at the time.
Sometimes when you get hit on the bridge of the nose, it causes your tear ducts to open and tears come out. You may feel like your crying, but actually it is a result of the blow and you can’t do anything about it. This happens a lot and you shouldn’t worry about it.
-FJ
I was in the ring and ate a right cross. It dazed me, and before I could regain sense of where he was, I ate a hook, then another hook. Dunno what happened after that. I blacked out for what seemed like about 5 seconds, but I was still standing when I came to. I tried to continue, but really was unable. The ref saw this and stopped the match.
I got kicked in the balls once.
Iron
Once?
JWT
I got a good solid kick to the sternum while sparring with one of my Kung Fu brothers.
I had to stop and catch my breath before we re-commenced.
Same but different, I took a heel hook kick to the side of my jaw and got a few teeth busted.
Each time, we continued and It made me a lot more concious of where I am not paying attention when I should be.
peace
The only time I ever had to completely stop sparring was when I was 15 years old…I think it was my first time really sparring and my opponent did a spinning hook kick…well I just stood there staring at it until it connected with my temple and I woke up on the floor.
Alex was his name…He taught me a lot of things that saved my ass in many a match.
No, but when i was a kid i used killing sucker punches and won with only one hit each time. One hit to the dantien area and they fall on the floor having a hard time breathing. One time was my brother, the other was some dude calling me dumb.
Oh yes i forgot. I got a knee strike to the balls when i was a kid too.
This kid was saying bad words (**** and stuff like that) to me and i was buddha zen style… Seeing that he didnt hurt me with words he did a knee strike to my nuts when he was close. It took a few seconds before it hurt, then i cried.
Anyway my friend was nearby and didnt see the knee strike, he tought i was crying becouse the other kid was dissing me. Dude, he tought i was a wuss… “You ***got, people call you names and you cry, you’re a wuss”
In sparring somtimes I got hit hard enough to want to quit but never did. A funny angle on this is that I was doing some takedowns for a sidekick once and for some reason lost my concentration and instead of catching the kick I walked right into it with my eye! I was dazed for quit some time and my eye was cut but I got backinto things after about 10 min. The good thing is I learned my lesson and never stoped focusing in class again!
XEBSBALL - doesn’t that mean ‘had my balls removed by a kick?’ - only kidding.
Lemme see:
Once I was thrown so hard once I literally didn’t know where I was. That was in ‘training’ to get my teaching liscence for Shuai Chiao.
Then the same guy (another coach of mine, we were taking Shuai Chiao together) beaned me with a backfist (!) so hard during the sparring part of the test that I had a small concussion before I even entered the tournament the next day.
Another time, when I was a teenager, a friend of mine who was much senior to me, caught me perfectly with a kick to the solar plexus. I didn’t even feel myself drop that time.
Yikes, I’m getting aches just thinking about this stuff…
I remember throwing one of my classmates from a leg catch on a spin kick and he went pretty high cause I threw him hard. I was having trouble with the move so I decided to put more power in it, well I guess I got it right cause he flew high up and came down on his neck pretty hard. He was down for awhile, my sifu had to start doing treatments for his back after that. He was complaing about that throw and pain since. I guess I should feel bad but in a sick sort of way I’m proud of myself for getting the technique right and now at least I know it works.
WHen i was like 15-16(im 17 now) my “Friend” wanted to fight me…some friend eh? The reason he did was cuz i said “I could beat em”…i was sure i could, then like a week after this “I can beat you, no you can’t” stuff, he told my friend(he knew bout this) that he was comin over to kick my A§§…i was sick at the time(jes ate at pizza hut), had a headache too, and i wasn’t angry at all, not in any mood to fight…and i just couldn’t get into it, i was so calm,(i was chillin, bout to goto sleep)…i couldn’t get myself into the fighting spirit either, i was throwin combos to the air, wasn’t helpin, i even made my friend i was with hit me a few times, didn’t help…it felt like i jes got up(these aren’t excuses)…
Then me n my friend met, i was witha friend, and he was witha friend, we were all friends, my closer friend thought i’d win, and vice versa…anyway, it was like a boxing match, i threw a few punches(they were weak, haha)…n got caught in teh forehead nose, fell to one knee(he didnt’ rush me, it was a “Friendly Fight” and i had just got 4 matress stitches(big ones) in my left leg from getting a stake stabbed through it, everyone at the fight was there)…
And eventually, the fight lasted for about 10min(god a long fight)…and i was jes about to say im through(i was tired)…and we were in a clinch, i was jes about to say it, then he pushed me back n hit me with a hard and fast combo in the stomach, my mouth was open too, the first hit knocked the wind out of me, the second knocked the reserve air out of me…then he stepped back, n i put 1 hand up, n said i was done…i felt like i was gonna pass out…
But then we Handshaked-Hugged, said good fight, n talked about it like it was a football game, like “Man, u got me good with that upper cut” “yea, those body shots killed me”…when it was over, it felt like it was kinda fun…then the friend i was with showed me some boxing manuevers(little late huh?)…i still think i could’ve beaten him if i had a reason:D