BRINE:Making the facial skin tougher..

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I have a website that tells me how to make brine solution but never saw a video on this process.Is alot of salt in water the ONLY way to make the skin tougher?

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Here is the website with very good info to make this stuff but it's just pics and info, no video..


Making brine

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Why would you want to make your Skin tougher, curious

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To make the skin have a durable leathery armor to it..I really hate headgear and don't believe it protects even the skin around the eyes.. Marciano's trainer talked about headgear in detail and why it was useless to use during sparring....

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To make the skin have a durable leathery armor to it..I really hate headgear and don't believe it protects even the skin around the eyes.. Marciano's trainer talked about headgear in detail and why it was useless to use during sparring....

I fail to see how an extra padding on your head can't help. Beside, I doubt you can make your skin tough enough to compensate a couple of inches of pad.

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The design of headgear with padding around the eyes makes the skin softer,not tougher..That's one way of getting cut..Since i don't believe i can argue very well in this post i'll share a link and let Rocky Marciano's trainer explain it..... Agree or Not.... You Decide

Veteran fighter and trainer Charley Goldman stated that boxers from his era had tougher skin for two reasons: (1) they didn’t use headgear, and (2) they’d bathe their face in brine. He said, “It doesn’t make sense to train with headgear if you fight without them. I never wore headgear and I must have had 300 fights. I don’t remember getting cut but once.” “It’s simple,” he said, “you cover something up, you protect it, it becomes tender, that’s what happens to the skin around a fighter’s eyes. His second point, “The use of brine was prevalent. Fighters such as Terry McGovern would bathe their face with brine before and after every workout. Their skin got to be real leathery. It had to be or those fellows never would have been able to fight 25 and 30 rounds.” Dr Vincent Nardiello stated, “others used a solution of water and rock salt.” Dr Nardiello also commented on headgear stating his own personal reflection when he boxed under the name of Jimmy Sheppard to earn his way through medical school. “Speaking from my own experience, when I started, there were a few times when I butted heads in the gym, and because I didn’t have a headguard, I felt it plenty. As a result, I made darn sure of my technique the next time I moved so it wouldn’t happen again. It stands to reason, that a fighter would learn the proper technique if they didn’t go in there wearing football helmets ”