Re: Nose Guards?
As a good referee says to the two boxer's, let's keep it professional. This isn't the place for pissing contents and flaring each other.
Originally Posted by
hitmandonny
I'll chime in with what is just a personal belief and as such has no affect on this debate.
While sparring without headgear I find my defense to be a lot sharper. I don not feel that this is a result of the headgear increasing my confidence, I feel it is subconcious....Without the headgear, I feel more aware. I have better vision and a better sense of my opponents resence. With the headgear I look one way; straight forward. Without my eyes are allowed to dart and look for tells. I'll check his hands, his shoulder, even his knee to see if he intends to step in. I feel headgear limits all this.
However, I feel that we are missing one great benefit of headgear (I mentioned it earlier and Thomas acknowledged.) Last Monday while sparring I was caught wioth an extremely hard looping right hand. However it landed on the lower part of the rear of my head. I frooze. I don't think it was intentional but three more straight rights to my face were landed before I had the sense to say "hold on a second I'm stunned." I was wearing headgear and I dread to think the result had I not been. It pained me for quite a while and I was grateful then for headgear.
Good points donny, and I think I know what you mean. I've had a couple times where I got caught a punch square onto my ear and and wished I was a little smarter, or at least had that wonderful feature of the head gear to protect my ears. If you haven't been hit square onto your ear, the feeling can be likened to a moment being so deep underwater that you feel an intense stabbing pain in your ears, along with the ringing that goes with it.
I think that head gear should not make up for the lack of defense for a fighter, or hinder a fighter's vision or boxing abilities.
A larger piece of head gear may perhaps take some of the power off of a punch, but if it's consequence of its construction that the fighter is getting hit more, then it defeats it's own purpose of protecting the fighter.
I think that you'd agree with me that the headgear should retain a degree of protection such as the case in point from your own experience. However it should offer protection without becoming a disadvantage and a potential liability of getting hit more.
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