Hardcore boxers have a hell of a time out of the ring because they are used to taped wrists.
Also, I know it is the most popular method, but hitting with the first two knuckles can lead to a broken wrist as well, if you come up short and grave your wrist can be snapped down, better the last two, up is better on the wrist.
Overall, I prefer the palm.
If you punch right, the energy of the punch goes entirely into the target.
If your fist dissipates the energy in place of your target, then you punched wrong, and injury can happen…as 7* said, it’s all a matter of technique. Whipping strikes help pretty much, they sort of “inject” the energy inside the target…but as Chris said, palm strikes are always safer no matter what and are always equal in efficiency (a good palm strike to the head can make the entire skull shake, teeth to brain)…
Punched people a few times in the head barefisted. Used the last 2/3 knuckles as well. Never had a problem - in fact, I find that the head almost feels soft when you hit it.
Yes, No, and same has happened to me.
The last two knuckles are not supported through the arm by the radia. the first two are.
the ring and pinky fingers aren’t used on hard surface in the style I was taught.
They are used on soft tissue area.
Punching to the head, is not the same as punching to the face.
The structure of the bone around the facial area is thinner.
Teeth are problematic, you can get infected if one of them breaks your skin.
LOL@ Chris McKinley. I agree 
peace
I have punched someone in the face and broke their nose.
I have also punched some one in the Head and broke my 5th metacarple (the bone behind my right pinky)
Face=soft
Head=Hard
Yes. No.
Funny, I was just reminiscing about this one yesterday. Yes I have punched people in the face, several persons in fact, and no I’ve never had any breaks or difficulty with it. In high school (last senior year) I broke a guys nose but in the funniest way possible.
He gave me some crap, I gave it right back, and then he swung a huge haymaker at my head. I leaned back out of the way and returned said haymaker with a huge follow through. The catch is, I thought that I’d missed. So here I was, completely overextended, ribs, side of face, everything completely exposed & vulnerable. When I didn’t feel pain explode over the open area, I quickly jumped back into a fighter’s crouch.
He just looked at me, sorta stunned, and then blood just exploded from his nose like you would not believe. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s at this point that I notice that his nose is on a completely different angle to what it used to be. He covered it up & screamed out
“You big Ape!! Wook what youb dum to me!”
Upside? I didn’t hurt my hand (didn’t even feel the contact), and I got forever banned from art (Woohoo!)
Downside? Detention that I actually turned up to some of.
So the first two knuckles are stronger? Why then does Wing Chun punch with the bottom three?
Iron
LOL! Chris, I too am in fisticuffs anonymous and now only use conference approved strikes.
I don’t hit people in the mouth because I value the skin on my hands.
YUP
Johnny Hot Shot..! I did the SAME thing…'bout 6 years ago…I broke the 5th metacarpel bone-right behind my pinky…i also broke SOMETHING on the guy i hit, felt a ‘crunchy mush’ as I hit him, then he dropped like a stone & didn’t get up before i took off…
had to have surgery & 2 pins put in my hand to fix it too…now to this day i am PARANOID to break it again, & everytime it rains or there’s an extreme drop in the temperature, my hand hurts like hell…booooooooo
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ralek from your accounts,as a trackrunner
would you say carllewis,or ben johnson,have more endurance,then say mike tyson,so from your totally backed scientifically assertion,tyson would get lumped,by a trackstar,with your amount of martial training experiance;that’s quite interesting.Thanks for the info.
Originally posted by logic
[B]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. [/B]
Ditto to logic and kung lek. Usually finished it before it really started. I also let go in sparring too much once and bent the guys teeth back into his braces through a mask and a mouthpeice. Not pretty and I felt awefull.
As to the wing chun question: I beleive it is done that way to make the short snap for the one inch punch. But for standard long punches top two are the way to go.
As for tyson, although very very powerfull, I think boxers tend to get used to the hand position when wrapped and gloved which leaves their hand open and the wrist slightly bent up.
Yeah that’s true, I shouldn’t say never. It still hurts when I punch something sharp (accidently)
HIV risk
If you punch someone in the face, and they are bleeding, and their tooth cuts your hand, there is direct blood-to-blood contact.
There are several documented cases of HIV transmission due to such cuts.
Be careful.
I once b*tch slapped a guy in the face using the back of my hand. Didn’t break it.