Thread: Been hardening my knuckles...

Originally Posted by Bilbo

What a bizarre thread

I don't see how you can harden your knuckles to prevent your hand from hurting. All your doing is hardening the skin, so it maybe won't sting as much.

But it's not stinging hands that hurt, its broken bones and this wont help that.

It's supposed to help gradually toughen up the bone too.

Originally Posted by Clubber

Originally Posted by Bilbo

What a bizarre thread

I don't see how you can harden your knuckles to prevent your hand from hurting. All your doing is hardening the skin, so it maybe won't sting as much.

But it's not stinging hands that hurt, its broken bones and this wont help that.

It's supposed to help gradually toughen up the bone too.

I'd ask Scrap for advice, he's the most knowledgeble person here, not only a trainer but he fought himself during the bare knuckle days of John L Sullivan.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Clubber

Originally Posted by Bilbo

What a bizarre thread

I don't see how you can harden your knuckles to prevent your hand from hurting. All your doing is hardening the skin, so it maybe won't sting as much.

But it's not stinging hands that hurt, its broken bones and this wont help that.

It's supposed to help gradually toughen up the bone too.

I'd ask Scrap for advice, he's the most knowledgeble person here, not only a trainer but he fought himself during the bare knuckle days of John L Sullivan.

I haven't seen him in awhile. I might try to PM him.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Clubber

Originally Posted by Bilbo

What a bizarre thread

I don't see how you can harden your knuckles to prevent your hand from hurting. All your doing is hardening the skin, so it maybe won't sting as much.

But it's not stinging hands that hurt, its broken bones and this wont help that.

It's supposed to help gradually toughen up the bone too.

I'd ask Scrap for advice, he's the most knowledgeble person here, not only a trainer but he fought himself during the bare knuckle days of John L Sullivan.

wait are u shitting me? scraps a pikey? okay okay..not a pikey, but was he really around when people were still pugilizing with no gloves and the ring was just a ring of people? That is insane..

Originally Posted by Andre

There are herbs you can buy through the chinese that stop any bone damage but your skin goes like iron when tensed up.
You have to heat it up like a tea and soak in it for 20 miniutes after training on the hard bags.

Whats going on you going to fight Kimo slice ?

Also what is this ancient chinese tea called that you are speaking of Andre? Like the ts, i've carried away on the heavybags sometimes, sometimes with no wraps or gloves. Its gotten my knuckles quite a bit rougher, but i had no idea it strengthened the bone! *goes off the whale away on heavy bag*

So does hitting a heavybag with no gloves on actually make your fist more solid, so that it will be less prone to breakage?

So does hitting a heavybag with no gloves on actually make your fist more solid, so that it will be less prone to breakage?

not sure BUT hitting the bag w/o handwraps or gloves will not improve the power of your punch. since its painfull to hit, your body tends to soften the punch instead of giving a full swing at it.

I thought about doing this many years ago but I knew it would be me who would contract the flesh eating bacteria from it.

This is boxing we're talking about.

Gloves on! You have to preserve your weapons for real fights and you will damage them by hitting things without oprtecting them.

Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla

I thought about doing this many years ago but I knew it would be me who would contract the flesh eating bacteria from it.

haha ever the optimist eh BG

Originally Posted by southpawed

Originally Posted by Andre

There are herbs you can buy through the chinese that stop any bone damage but your skin goes like iron when tensed up.
You have to heat it up like a tea and soak in it for 20 miniutes after training on the hard bags.

Whats going on you going to fight Kimo slice ?

Also what is this ancient chinese tea called that you are speaking of Andre? Like the ts, i've carried away on the heavybags sometimes, sometimes with no wraps or gloves. Its gotten my knuckles quite a bit rougher, but i had no idea it strengthened the bone! *goes off the whale away on heavy bag*

So does hitting a heavybag with no gloves on actually make your fist more solid, so that it will be less prone to breakage?

Its whats used in iron palm training, dont know the name sorry , i can count to ten in Cantonese if that helps.

Drink Lots Of Milk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what a fist of a semi-retired karateman looks like, guess who?

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It still retain about half of the old form though I haven't banged it in years. So let this be a warning: this thing can be permanent. It used to be much more uglier like two marbles jutting out from the fist. They still teach karate in the old, tough way there in Okinawa so we were subjected to all kinds of physical 'abuse' there and pounding our fists on hards stuffs to make them iron hard was one of them. But I've decided to shift to the so-called 'soft' or the spiritual aspect of karate, so I don't torture myself anymore.

Just passing by. Adios.

that's one ugly hand. lol sorry. but it is.

i honestly don't think there is any benefit to roughening up hands like that for boxing, and admit i don't know enuff about martial arts to really judge.

i can understand doing it for martial arts or if you are training for bare nuckle type fighting, but to me if you are boxing and properly you don't need to worry much about hurting your hands if you are throwing properly and well-equipped.

i do use hand grips to strengthen my wrists and hands, but that looks a bit overboard for boxing IMO.

Ya, but it's been well over 10 years since I last pounded that poor thing on some hard stuffs, so during that long period it sort of 'settled down' a bit to its form now. So you could imagine what it looked like then. Definitely it was lot uglier with the two front knuckles looking like two marbles jutting out of the fist. The right impact point for karate is the two front knuckles (the fore- and the middle fingers), not the middle-finger to pinky knuckles. But I must say that during it's peak days, it was one mean punching machine, capable of wrecking anyone's jaw who dared to challenge that mean fellow. But now it's a reformed baby, no more ugly brawls and as meek as a lamb.

Actually, I try to gradually train all 4 knuckles, because YA NEVER KNOW when you might accidentally use those last 2.