I only join reading the first post and starting from my first post. I did not see hammer fist and palm strikes, it must be before I join in. Hammer fist is good, but need to be closer than punching. But you don't worry about breaking knuckles. I taught my grand daughter using hammer fist. For close distance, I rather use elbows and knees.
I can always learn something from other people, maybe your knuckle conditioning exercise is valuable to me. I invited you because it’s too much to type to describe something like a teaching method on a forum setting. I also invited you because it sounded like you think I’m a bullshiner, I believe maybe I can give you something useful no matter your age. My Sigung was incredibly fast even in his late eighties, far and away faster than I ever was in my best day. You can also meet my training brothers and my students, it isn’t me, it’s the teaching method, that’s what our system is at its most basic foundation. Am I the best? Certainly not, but what/how I teach is legitimate and potentially useful to anyone including accomplished martial artists. It isn’t my creation, it’s James Wing Woo’s teaching system. I am one inheritor of the system. My offer stands if you ever pass through humboldt county, please feel welcome.
Watch Bas Rutten vs Frank Shamrock. Bas is quite able to make palm strikes work. I too prefer elbow/knee.
The nature of a "boxer's fracture" is characterized by various knuckles, not just a particular one. Now, you're trying to justify punching the head in a specific place in a fight, which is ludicrous. Anyone who is knowledgeable knows when you attempt to punch the head you miss more than you hit, so in a street venue anticipating that kind of accuracy is folly. This is especially true when you understand that a boxing fracture occurs because boxers are unaccustomed to making a proper clenched fist outside of training or competing, which contributes to the breaking of hands in a street confrontation when punching to the head. To suggest and extrapolate what you say are "your street fights" without breaking your hand has nothing to do with reality, and if you're having that many street fights and it is not an occupational hazard, it suggests other things to me. Your experience is your experience, but it doesn't change the medical facts.
My reference to "hitting the hard with soft, and the soft with hard" was an Ed Parker Sr. reference to weapons choices in confrontation. You don't hit a hard bone (head) with a weaker collection of bones (clenched fist), because it is not intelligent and has a greater chance of creating an injury. He meant to hit the head and associated area with an open hand and punch the softer body parts. No one trains to punch and punching power more than a boxer, and yet the medical term "boxer's fracture" has presented itself enough to be in the medical lexicon of medicine, so the term exists for a reason and oddly enough, it rarely occurs in the ring.
Preach.
I look at the youngsters and you would think they live in feudal Japan or ancient China. For those that don't have jobs, a family, and are independently wealthy I guess you can train like that.
Thanks for the invite. like I said, I really more treating this as aerobics, not trying to improve and all that anymore. Too old for that, and I am just glad I can still doing it with my back problem.
If you can change direction during a punch, then you're not punching you're feinting. Anyone who makes that statement is not a fighter. An effective punch requires commitment significant to do damage and once committed cannot change direction. That's why when people miss sometimes they stumble and even fall down sometimes. Anyone who thinks otherwise is in the M.F.L. Martial Fantasy league.
What kind of Dr are you? MD?
You are not correct. You are obviously not a surgeon. If you are unable to target or change direction, I’m sorry that you weren’t trained well. Maybe you should have trained with Woo instead of Parker. You dont know a thing about me or what I’ve done. I don’t care what you extrapolate from things you don’t know. You obviously don’t know the medical facts. What surgical experience do you have that you base these false “facts“ on? I have near to 20 years in an operating room fixing these things.
Yeah it’s a terrible injury.
Of course people miss, no surprise there. You are right I’m not a fighter. I never claimed to be a fighter. I said I have been in several fights. I said I have successfully punched people in the face without breaking anything in my body. I said I can change direction, which is true. I defined a boxer fracture because I have assisted in the repair of dozens of them and their corresponding injuries.
I don't know what I am doing kicking pole will help, but at least I have a better chance than if I don't. This is one kick I use. Scary.
I honestly don’t know either. It is scary to see someone’s leg wrap around another. I wouldn’t have believed it if i hadn’t seen it. It makes me wonder if he might have had an injury or hairline fracture previous to the incident. It could be that there is an underlying pathology there that we don’t know about. Impossible to say. I don’t want any more injuries, I have plenty of old ones that still bother me.
Ha ha, that's why I am paying insurance!!! I don't know whether it will help, but it's only 2 mins, twice a week. I don't do anything more than in the video, that's it. I am not into breaking boards. I think I did that like 2 or 4 times in the past before I did the final time that broke my knuckle. The difference is the other times, I punched down with boards set up on the floor like what other people do. The time I broke my knuckle, I tied the board holder on a heavy bag to punch horizontally. Because I expect the bag moves, I punch all out, that there goes my knuckle!!!
(.I never did much board breaking, I have seen boards and bricks broken. Some were impressive, some not so much...Ha ha, that's why I am paying insurance!!! I don't know whether it will help, but it's only 2 mins, twice a week. I don't do anything more than in the video, that's it. I am not into breaking boards. I think I did that like 2 or 4 times in the past before I did the final time that broke my knuckle. The difference is the other times, I punched down with boards set up on the floor like what other people do. The time I broke my knuckle, I tied the board holder on a heavy bag to punch horizontally. Because I expect the bag moves, I punch all out, that there goes my knuckle!!!
I never dare to punch boards since, never dare to anymore. Don't want to know whether punching pole helps or not!!!
Your friend broke his leg on a kick? I broke my foot on a buddies shin that checked my kick. I had to learn that hard lesson twice. Same foot, same guy, same shin. He is still my very close friend.
