Advice for hard punching with minimal padding, and still avoid ripping knuckle skin?

[Badhabits]

Not trying to argue, but wondering what type of hand injuries and how you're getting them?

 

[HighKick]

You are clearly in the wrong.

"Playing the autistic card"?

Not only did you just expose yourself as an ignorant person, you're going on permanent ignore.

Works for me.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Toilet wine is not a good experience. Blimey.

 

[Fungus]

Just for the discussion I myself don't classify ripped knuckle skin as an "injury" no more than I count bruised muscles or ribs. This stuff are benign transient and heals fast, usually in as few days to couple of weeks, with no residual issues.

Bruises and pain lasting for 2-3 days is something i appreciate from regular sparring. If there is no pain the day after it has been too low contact for my taste. One of our instructor has very good control and knows precisely where the limit is, so you can enjoy a good beating without fearing permanent injury. Very refreshing.

The ripped skin is more a practical hygiene matter as noone apprecaites getting blood everywhere, painless or not. Yes it happens every other time to someone in the group so everyone gets some blood anyway, so it not a superbig deal.

Injuries I want to avoid are broken/crackes ribs/bones, permanently damaged to ligaments or others things, that takes months or more to heal and some that may leave permanent issues even after healing.

 

[Simfers]

Toilet wine is not a good experience. Blimey.

It's really not on the same level as a bathtub mint julep, that's for sure.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

It's really not on the same level as a bathtub mint julep, that's for sure.

Um.... I think I've suffered enough. I will try this after the world stops spinning.

 

[marvin8]

When hitting the heavy bag, wrapping hands and wearing gloves helps prevent injury to anyone’s hands. Two karate guys…

 

[Tony Dismukes]

I've looked back through your posts and I'm not seeing it. Maybe my eyes are getting old. Can you point out the post where you explain what sort of injuries you're getting 3-4 times per week? Or else just go ahead and explain again?

Hand injuries, which are the topic of this thread

Okay, assuming that you're being sincere and not just trolling us, there has to be a miscommunication here. You're saying that you get 3-4 hand injuries per week? Even with wraps and tape and gloves? And you think that this is normal for anyone who trains hard contact?

As you've been saying, wraps and tapes and gloves are intended to prevent hand injuries. In general, they do a pretty good job of it.

I've never met anyone, hobbyist, amateur fighter, or pro fighter, boxer, judoka, nak muay, or jiu-jiteiro, who injures their hands 3-4 times per week in training. Is that really what you meant to say?

 

[JowGaWolf]

May I point out, once again, none of these people who claim to hit hard surfaces like makiwara or other "iron fist" stuff is practical.

It's practical in terms of fist conditioning and punching structure. But how one trains on it is extremely important. There are also many ways to condition so it's only an option. The best way I can explain it is how I hit the heavy bag at the gym without gloves, then others try to do the same thing and end up ripping the skin off their hand or hurting their hand. In my mind, hitting the heavy bag isn't about devloping power. It's about developing conditioning. The better my conditioning the harder I can hit the bag without power. Most people see hitting the heavy bag as developing power so they put on gloves and wraps to protect the structure of their hand as they try to hit it as hard as they can. When I punch the heavy bag hard I focus more on structure. As if I'm trying to break an egg that is in the center of the bag. That's how I'm trying to direct my power into the structure of my punch. If my structure is wrong then I won't be able to reach the egg. People who come in with gloves to hit the bag do not think of things like this, because the gloves and wraps makes those things less important. Take off the gloves and wraps would make such things very important to them.