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kensei
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Joined: 05 Oct 2012
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Location: Canada
Styles: Shotokan
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| Dobbersky wrote: |
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| The only thing I can add is the fact that rounds were shorter, less of them...and way less punches thrown than in regular boxing....not as many jabs as the risk of broken hands goes WAY up with bare knuckle boxing. |
Actually it sort of ran the opposite as to the number of rounds. Until the MQ rules became popular rounds were often of variable length with each lasting until a knock down was scored. Unless the fight had a predetermined number of rounds they lasted until a man was downed and couldn't come to the mark in the given time, most commonly one minute. Some famous fights went into the triple digits. |
I agree, us Kyokushin guys tend to fight without gloves and I've not known of anyone breaking their hands. We even do 100 man kumite and that's continuous as in no breaks |
But you dont punch to the face! The top of the head or side of the head is a strong bone area and hands break...you punch to the meaty chest area and rops are still covered and more flexible than a skull!
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kensei
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:32 am Post subject: |
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their exists a reason that boxing gloves were invented....to many broken hands! 
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JusticeZero
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Joined: 02 Apr 2005
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Broken hands weren't that much of a problem before gloves - people didn't punch to the face as much. The gloves make the sport appear less brutal, at the cost of making it actually much more dangerous to the competitors.
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straightblast
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Styles: close quarter combat
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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In the early MMA day's, they were bare knuckle and broke hands all the time.
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Dobbersky
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Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 1323
Location: Manchester. United Kingdom
Styles: Black Tiger Ashihara Karate Jutsu, Japanese Kickboxing, Cheng Man Ch'ing TaiChi
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| kensei wrote: |
| Dobbersky wrote: |
| ShoriKid wrote: |
| kensei wrote: |
| The only thing I can add is the fact that rounds were shorter, less of them...and way less punches thrown than in regular boxing....not as many jabs as the risk of broken hands goes WAY up with bare knuckle boxing. |
Actually it sort of ran the opposite as to the number of rounds. Until the MQ rules became popular rounds were often of variable length with each lasting until a knock down was scored. Unless the fight had a predetermined number of rounds they lasted until a man was downed and couldn't come to the mark in the given time, most commonly one minute. Some famous fights went into the triple digits. |
I agree, us Kyokushin guys tend to fight without gloves and I've not known of anyone breaking their hands. We even do 100 man kumite and that's continuous as in no breaks |
But you dont punch to the face! The top of the head or side of the head is a strong bone area and hands break...you punch to the meaty chest area and rops are still covered and more flexible than a skull! |
SwordGod (as you borrowed the name from Musashi's nickname) you need to research better, Kyokushin and offshoots do punch to the head. We just don't do it in competition etc. It was a rule which was added because Sosai wanted the competitions to last longer than they were. Also we still kick to the head. I'm sure you've heard or George St Pierre and Semmy Schilt? Kyokushin & Ashihara fighters who had no issues knocking people out with punching to the face.
Also, my good friend and assistant instructor in my Dojo in his earlier days retired as UN-defeated Boxing Champ in his weight class. He won 90% of his fights with bodyshots not headshots.
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bushido_man96
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Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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| Broken hands weren't that much of a problem before gloves - people didn't punch to the face as much. The gloves make the sport appear less brutal, at the cost of making it actually much more dangerous to the competitors. |
This. It wasn't the jab/jab setup game that we see today. The style was so much different, and with the advent of gloves, as mentioned, head hitting became more popular.
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kensei
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Location: Canada
Styles: Shotokan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:40 am Post subject: |
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SwordGod (as you borrowed the name from Musashi's nickname) you need to research better, Kyokushin and offshoots do punch to the head. We just don't do it in competition etc. It was a rule which was added because Sosai wanted the competitions to last longer than they were. Also we still kick to the head. I'm sure you've heard or George St Pierre and Semmy Schilt? Kyokushin & Ashihara fighters who had no issues knocking people out with punching to the face.
Also, my good friend and assistant instructor in my Dojo in his earlier days retired as UN-defeated Boxing Champ in his weight class. He won 90% of his fights with bodyshots not headshots. |
Kensei can mean "sword saint" but in this case it does not....Kensei has several meaning...in my case the name means "an important silence" ....I like the irony!
Two things...Been doing Karate near 40 years now and a good buddy of mine is Kyokushin and trained with Mas Oyama at several training camps...my reasearch is purely based on what he has told me as it was told to him by Oyama.
I was not saying you NEVER punch to the face, I am saying those that train for the sport aspect REMOVE this type of training from their training to make sure they dont accidentally nail someone and get in trouble. And WHOLE schools have done this as they focus on the sport aspect. We have two Kyokushin schools in our area (one of which my friend attends and instructs at) and only the one my friend teaches at has face punching in the training (at the face, not hitting the face) the other BANNED it from training to make sure the students dont do this in sport.
My research is fine, the problem is you are assuming that all Kyokushina and the off shoots are the same across the board...they are not.
I respect the hell out of Kyokushin and watched the Enshin fights ext, great sport fun.
I tried Kyokushin as a work out once, but bugged my buddy that it was kind of the same as what we do....mixed with some really watered down Goju Kata. All in good fun mind you, his instructor was fantastic and I had a great time.
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Dark Shogun
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Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Posts: 123
Location: Australia
Styles: Okinawan Goju Ryu karate, Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu iaido, Shinto Muso Ryu Jodo
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| What kind of fist conditioning was used in bare-knuckle boxing as compared to that used in karate? |
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Harkon72
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Location: Wales
Styles: Okinawan Karate, Aikido, Ninpo.
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Sand bag training with White Spirit or strong alcohol to callous the hands.
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guird
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Styles: BJJ, MMA, Gongkwon Yusul
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Another difference is that covering becomes a little less effective without gloves, and parrying a little more so. you'll need to take care of your opponents head-hook punches by using the elbow-style cover, or a krav-maga-360-defense kind of block.
I'm pretty sure that's a difference most mma gyms can teach you though. I don't think there's much bare knuckle boxing can teach you which is applicable to MMA that most fighters haven't already figured out. When it comes to self defense however, there may be some things important to take note of to allow your boxing to translate better into the street. |
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