The "glass jaw" can it be trained out?

[Neildo]

What the....Do they really say to do that?


My head hurts just thinking about it. ugh.

[danno]

I can't say whether it's his training methods or if big New Zealanders just have concrete for brains.

maoris are just very large people, very heavily built. if the population of new zealand was a bit larger, i think we'd be seeing many more champs from NZ.

[AAAhmed46]

Good stuff guys!

Wow...thiers alot more to this then i thought.

[Red Elvis]

Boxing USSR style, komrade!

Da! This is what I am speaking of komrade!

[Gypsy Jazz]

I read a good article a while back about training neck flexibilty/agility to make yourself more knockout resistant. I'm having a tough time finding it right now though. The gist of it was that although strength is important, it is more important to be able to roll with the blows easily. Clearly a more limber neck would comfortably be able to do this far better than a stiff one. I don't know for a fact if this is true or just theory, but it seems to make some sense. I'll try to track down the article again later when I have less to do.

[danno]

i got this from a magazine i have:

acute brain trauma is a result of the acceleration and deceleration of the brain or parts of it. This happens because of straight line movements (forwards and back) and often associated with countercoup injuries. This is an injury on the brain opposite to the point of impact where deceleration occurs.

being knocked out can also cause rotational injuries to the brain. Rotational injuries often cause more damage than linear ones.

when rotational injuries occur the skull starts spinning, then the brain starts spinning, then the skull stops (because it hits the ground or by neck structures). The brain which is still spinning inside the skull then decelerates. Damage also occurs to the brain because of pulling from where the spinal cord and other nerves are attached to the brain. this is therefore associated with cell damage, rupture of cell membranes and blood vessels, loss of fluid from the cells into the surrounding tissue and subsequent bruising of the brain. swelling is a major part of the problem.

as far as your actual brain goes, you can't "train" it to be resistant to knockouts.

[Red Elvis]

as far as your actual brain goes, you can't "train" it to be resistant to knockouts.

Sure you can, use simple commands like "sit" and "shake". THen work your way up to "dance", "eat" and finally... "don't let yourself get punched" and "hide like a girl in the face of violence".

:viking:

[PointyShinyBurn]

maoris are just very large people, very heavily built. if the population of new zealand was a bit larger, i think we'd be seeing many more champs from NZ.

Mark Hunt is Samoan. Lucky you made that mistake outside his presence.

[ant]

something like this was seen in hajime no ippo. A boxing manga has to be true right! :P

[danno]

Mark Hunt is Samoan. Lucky you made that mistake outside his presence.

you're right actually, i forgot about that.

a lot of polynesians who come to australia are often asked "so you're maori?" to which they reply for the millionth time "no, i'm tongan/samoan/etc".