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Taking Hits / Blows

  • 15-03-2006 8:46pm
    #1
    GerryRyan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 966 ✭✭✭


    Ok, is it a question of just conditioning yourself to take hits (hardening up) or is there much you can do about it?

    I'd be considered kinda skinny (6foot1inch, 160lbs), which doesn't bother me because I can evade strikes better than some of the 'bulkier' guys I'd be sparring with.

    But if you are going to get hit, lets say to the stomach (example), is it better to step out of it or just tense your stomach and then follow with your own strikes?

    I know its common sense not to stay static/stanmd still when there is a chance of getting hit but what, besides what I've already stated can you do?

    Also, I've been told by a few people that I should condition my forearms. What do they mean by this? (probably an unbelievably stupid question)

    Opinions ?


Comments

  • #2
    THAI GUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭THAI GUY


    avoiding strikes is ok. best to get someone to bounce a medicine ball off you're stomach to condition it. after a while you won't think to tense you'll just take it. forearms can be conditioned on a heavy bag.


  • #3
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    No sense in tiring yourself out by moving around unnecessarily if you can take the hit. As the lad above says, after a while it becomes subconscious.


  • #4
    Clive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Clive


    ThatGuy wrote:
    Taking Hits / Blows

    Man, I really thought that this was going to be about a scaldy night out...


  • #5
    Millionaire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,248 ✭✭✭Millionaire


    do good conditioning, condition the abs, then you will be time be able to take decent punches to the mid section no problem.


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