They always say you shouldn’t punch people in the face cuz you’ll break your hand.
I’ve never punched anyone in the face.
Have you ever punched anyone in the face? Did you break your hand?
Iron
I have punched someone in the face, and I did not break my hand.
Yes. No.
Yes I have punched someone in the face, but he was really fat so it didn’t hurt. It was so soft and cusiony, I could have punched all day!
Honestly, I don’t think I’ll ever break my fist no matter what I hit. Since I was 13 I’ve been conditioning my fists by carrying around flat rocks on my pocket, and hitting them over and over with my first two knuckles. Also going at it with brick walls helped too 
Now I can hit anything as hard as I can and be just fine. Granted, it can sting, but I never injure myself.
cool. im gonna go make friends with a nerdy fat guy with no self confidence.
i’m hobbit kin and can’t reach most people’s heads so i wouldn’t know.
Heheh, well it’s not like he was a nerd and I attacked him. That was actualy my first real fight. I was walking in to school (late) and outa nowhere I get bodychecked into a locker. I pushed the guy back into the other side of the hall, and then he suggests that we go outside and “settle this”. I don’t even know who this guy is, I had no idea why he would run me into the locker. I wanted to rip his face off, but he had about 10 other people with him who looked like they might jump in. I told the guy to f*ck off and went to class. After school as I went to my car, he followed me with 2 friends, and I knew I couldn’t get out of it this time. I charged right at him, punched him twice in the head, and kneed him in his huge stomach, flooring him. His buddies didn’t know what to do, and luckily they didn’t attack me. I got in my car and took off, and never heard from the guy again
I punched shaolin Tiger in the face in a challenge match. He was a former opponent of Marvin Perry the champion of san shou. I did not break my hand but there was a rectangular slit in the shape of a tooth inbetween my knuckles and it was bleeding. He was spitting out blood from the punch.
I fight lot’s of san shou champions and former opponents of them all the time and i have never broken my hand.
WE DIDNT ASK YOUR LIFE STORY…
GD,cool. im gonna go make friends with a nerdy fat guy with no self confidence.UNDOOBATABLEE
i’ve punched people in the face, i did not hurt my hand.
I don’t think i’d wanna try hittin somebody in the forehead with a closed fist though.
KungFuGuy! Your knuckles must be like Pan Qing Fu’s
Yes,several times,and never hurt my fist. If you punch correctly with the first 2 knuckles it shouldn’t hurt that much.
But never say never. There is always a chanch of really hurting your fist.
Just look at Mike Tyson, he broke his hand when he got in a fight on the street.
ralek you have only fought one san shou person. By your own admission you did not win the fight (I remember your post on Shaolin Tigers last post before his break). Shaolin Tiger did not fight Marvin Perry but Marvin’s teammate Robert Bouyer who won the National title that year.
I figured you always try to be accurate so I thought I would help you out.
Yes but shaolin tiger did not win either. It was a draw becuase there was this suspicious looking security guy with a walkie talkie so we had to stop fighting and good thing we stopped becuase a few minutes later there was a bicicle police men that rode right by us. Shaolin Tiger said that he would sue the city of Frederick if they arrested him.
I would have won the fight if there were not rest breaks becuase he was getting tired. My strategy was to let him gas while i just defend his punches and kicks. And it was working but we had to stop becuase of suspicious people so it was a draw.
I broke my hand on some guys cheek bone when I was 15. Reverse punch from Karate.
never broke mine. I think that that’s all in the technique of the punch. which knucks you hit with, was it a proper fist, etc. There is something called a “boxer’s break” which is where the pinky and/or ring fingers break because they threw a punch and hit with the wrong knucks. I think a hook punch is the most common case of this break.
I know many MA use the hard/soft rule though - a soft part of the hand is used to hit a hard part of the body. A hard part of the hand is used on a soft part of the body.
I have punched someone in the face and their cheekbone broke, does that count?
ralek, by your own description of the event, you were sparring, not fighting and it sounds as though you guys were taking it easy on eachother, just a friendly match. so big ****ing deal if thats all your experience, thats not much to brag about.
now why would you insist on only fighting people in that same park, if it was a terrible place to fight the first time with security and cops patroling?
if you really want to destoy kung fu, which i think is a commendable challenge, you should travel outside your little park to major cities, fight in places where it won’t be interupted, and insist on fighting to knock out or submission. I’m sure you’d find plenty of kung fu guys that will fight you to help you with your quest.
best of luck.
It was a draw. But i would have won on superior endurance alone becuase he was getting tired and I wasn’t tired at all. My endurance was better.
r/e punching people in the face:
yes, unfortunatly have had to…and no never hurt hand.
Hi, my name is Chris…(“hiiii, Chris”)…and I’m a recovering head puncher. I’ve been in recovery for 10 years. For me, it started with casual sparring matches, and eventually moved into recreational use on the street. A couple of times, it got so bad that once I started punching some big bad dude in the head, I don’t even remember what happened. It’s like I just blacked out. I’d wake up all bloody and dizzy and my fist would hurt like hell, with the big dude just laughing at me and kicking me in the leg.
That’s when I knew I had a problem. A friend of mine said he had the same problem but was now in recovery. He took me to a meeting where they taught simple physics and basic common sense. I’m proud to say I haven’t punched a head since 1991. My friends say I’m doing palm strikes like I was chain smoking now, but hey…ya gotta do somethin.