drop bear
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I would certainly like to see those stats!! "Most people you know have broken their hands with body shots"? Surely not most, I take it you mean you know a few or a couple that have broken hands when doing this? What style of fighter are they?
I am not proud about it but I have broken a guy's rib in competition and not damaged my hand. I also had my own rib pushed out of my chest when the ligament was stretched when I took a shocker of a blow to the side of the torso. It was bad for me but I knew the guy I was fighting, he was a friend and trainer, and his hand was not hurt.
The ribs are strong but they are far more vulnerable and do not have the same structure as the head bones, they simply do not have the cohesiveness or support of the head bones.
They hit elbows. And generally you are really booming that body shot off.