Vertical rake doesn’t work very well, too slow, and not very effective without the addition of upward palm to chin to set up. If you want to see someone who is great at getting away with eye pokes in a ring it’s Jon Jones. He does it quite a lot.
Because you might need to hit them more than once? Or even twice, if we consider breaking both hands...
This is why muay thai is so useful. You've got 8 points of attack that you can break. 9 if you include the head.
I've never looked at it that way before.
Good point, though that's not limited to Muay Thai. How many do you think you can break in a single conflict while continuing to fight?
That depends. How many drugs am I allowed to be on during the fight?
Does MT use the inside edge (sharp bone) of the forearm to hit the back of opponent's head?
Striking the back of the head is illegal in the muay thai formats I'm familiar with.
Yeah I don’t do the hardening thing. I made my living in the operating room, I kinda need my mits to function, at all times. Unfortunately for me mistakes were made and things got broken. Not both at the same time though, isolated incidents.
Yeah who is gonna do wipe duty? Wife would just cherish that moment, I’m certain I could live it down in less than a decade.
Lol!
They will last a fight.
In the sense of a thai clinch. You can wack them.
Why train at all? A craftsman tries to use the best tools.
I might be imagining it a bit differently from you. But I don't see being able to hit someone in the back of the head with my forum as something that's feasible/possible from a clinch. And even then, in the formats I'm familiar with, you can't whack the back of the head from a clinch.
Better things to do than mangle your hands preparing for mabye the one or two fights you will get in to.
A great move when the distance is right, good for any part of the head. It's executed (at least by me as a karateka) much like a ridge hand but closer range and more powerful. I don't know if the back of the head is an allowed target nowadays in the various MA's, but I don't train for tournaments.
