Low blows. Why are they bad?

[Kev]

Forget your balls for a second... push your hands in to your stomach... there's a relatively thick layer of muscle over the top of a fairly strong organ in the stomach... now have a dig around the front of your pelvis... really try to dig you fingers in... there are intestines... the bladder... urethra... spleen all sorts down there with little to no protection just waiting to be burst or prolapsed by an impact.. Not a nice place to get hit and f you could just wail away down there (even if nut shots were still illegal) you'd have a lot of shit, short or tepid/timid fights and a tonne of internally damaged fighters.

Ah, cool answer Adam. So the most exposed organs are below where the belt line would be? That makes sense if that's the case.

[AdamGB]

Yeah... All of the vital stuff... heart, brain, lungs etc are all encapsulated in either the skull or ribs, hard bone frames.

The stuff below the waste isn't as vital in terms of immediate survival, so yeah... I guess it got the short end of the stick in the "where abouts in the skeleton should we be placed" game.

You're not going to out right die from trauma to those organs (not right away anyway) but can still mess you up in the long run.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

[AdamGB]

Pretty easy to do on the ref's blind side though.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Pretty easy to do on the ref's blind side though.

lol my reply was meant for bilbo, you beat me to it.

[marbleheadmaui]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

Seriously? who gives a fuck how long ago it's been illegal

[marbleheadmaui]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

Seriously? who gives a fuck how long ago it's been illegal

Anybody who cares about how the sport has become the one we have today of course!