Been hardening my knuckles...

[mnmc10]

no i meant manny pacquiao, i spoke to him a couple of times back then when he had his fighting cocks farm setup a stone throw away from my house.

he had calouses up to the joint after the knuckles too.

[Douglas]

no i meant manny pacquiao, i spoke to him a couple of times back then when he had his fighting cocks farm setup a stone throw away from my house.

he had calouses up to the joint after the knuckles too.

Oh. What did he do to harden them up?

[mnmc10]

i really dont know but i guess its cause of the years and years and years of training, and probably poor handwrap technique.

but if you want to lessen the pain when punching expecially if you hit the hard parts of a face like chin,eyebrows and cheeks. you should always keep your fist clenched tightly as in real tight. never punch with a slightly opened fist itll hurt like hell!

[Douglas]

i really dont know but i guess its cause of the years and years and years of training, and probably poor handwrap technique.

but if you want to lessen the pain when punching expecially if you hit the hard parts of a face like chin,eyebrows and cheeks. you should always keep your fist clenched tightly as in real tight. never punch with a slightly opened fist itll hurt like hell!

Oh yes! I've found that out on the heavy bag.

[Kev]

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.

[Douglas]

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.

[Kev]

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.

[pacfan]

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.

[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.

[donnydarkoIRL]

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.

[Kev]

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