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<blockquote data-quote="Kieran" data-source="post: 634871" data-attributes="member: 4725">In boxing, we also aim to land with the first two knuckles, except I was taught to angle the hand very slightly down, and very slightly outwards, which lines the knuckles up directly in front of the wrist bone, and feels really stable. Another tip I got from a video by a Mike McCallum trained fighter on the Sherdog forums, was to close the smaller fingers first and to close them tighter, so that the first two knuckles protrude more. Even though in a glove you can't completely close the fist, nor do you want to until impact, but you can still form a semi tight fist in the same way.However while we're taught to punch that way, in reality when you have a moving target, and we're trying to punch around elbows etc., obviously we're not always going to land perfectly with the first two knuckles, which is one of the reasons we have hand wraps and gloves (I remember reading that this actually developed so that fights can last longer and be better for spectators, as bare knuckle fights wouldn't last very long as hands would be broken, and the facial cuts would be too severe). Your theory sounds nice, but is nothing like reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kieran, post: 634871, member: 4725"] In boxing, we also aim to land with the first two knuckles, except I was taught to angle the hand very slightly down, and very slightly outwards, which lines the knuckles up directly in front of the wrist bone, and feels really stable. Another tip I got from a video by a Mike McCallum trained fighter on the Sherdog forums, was to close the smaller fingers first and to close them tighter, so that the first two knuckles protrude more. Even though in a glove you can't completely close the fist, nor do you want to until impact, but you can still form a semi tight fist in the same way. However while we're taught to punch that way, in reality when you have a moving target, and we're trying to punch around elbows etc., obviously we're not always going to land perfectly with the first two knuckles, which is one of the reasons we have hand wraps and gloves (I remember reading that this actually developed so that fights can last longer and be better for spectators, as bare knuckle fights wouldn't last very long as hands would be broken, and the facial cuts would be too severe). Your theory sounds nice, but is nothing like reality. [/QUOTE]

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