Article: Won't You Break Your Hand?

**lklawson** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 8:10pm

Well, the last article I posted has managed to engender page after page of (what we'll loosely call) "discussion."

Encouraged (ahem) by the response, I, with great trepidation, present to you this article, "Won't You Break Your Hands" by Keith P. Myers.

Mr. Myers was kind enough to grant permission to me to repub his article, originally published on his own (now defunct) website. I spiced it up a bit with some pics, but the words are his.

http://cbd.atspace.com/articles.html

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

**hungryjoe** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 8:17pm

Common knowledge that conditioning does matter.

Still - the naysayers will be here shortly.

**Jim_Jude** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 9:01pm

cool article, not surprised they dug up a pic of Fitzsimmons. The conditioning required of course is immense (time-wise, that is). ESPECIALLY for modern boxers, who have changed their punching methods, and have multiplied the risks of injuring their hands.
Will they be willing to unlearn what they know, what they identify with, even if it will save their hands?

No.

***but it'll be nice to be able to say "I told you so!"***

**lklawson** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 9:08pm

Originally Posted by Jim_Jude

cool article, not surprised they dug up a pic of Fitzsimmons.

In all fairness, I supplied the Fitzsimmons pic. I edited in all the pics special for the repub. Mr. Myers had nothing to do with them. I just threw them in to jaz up the visuals a bit; make it more interesting to look at.

He wrote a nice article on the evolution of the punching bag hosted over on ejmas.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

**Wounded Ronin** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 9:18pm

Interesting article. I guess it's true that wrist injuries are pretty common when people fall and put down a palm heel type hand to break their fall.

**lklawson** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 9:30pm

Originally Posted by Wounded Ronin

Interesting article. I guess it's true that wrist injuries are pretty common when people fall and put down a palm heel type hand to break their fall.

The stats that I vaguely remember indicated that wrist injuries are the number 1 injury from falls for some young demographic (under 35 or something, I forget) while some older demographic (>50 or something) the number 1 injury was broken hip (or was it tailbone?)

I should probably look 'em up again just to refresh my memory.

Anyway, yeah, you're right. Very common injury from a fall.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

**Steve** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 9:51pm

We should find a way to get Bas Rutten to comment in this thread.

**TheRuss** · Posted On: 1/17/2009 10:43pm

Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

Originally Posted by Steve

We should find a way to get Bas Rutten to comment in this thread.

You realize that this would be true regardless of what thread it was posted in, right?

**Steve** · Posted On: 1/18/2009 12:38am

There would have to be a gateway thread that would draw him in, right?

**Jim_Jude** · Posted On: 1/18/2009 5:30am

Yes, according to Bas, he prefers to punch as that is how he was trained for years, and yet while fighting in Pancrase he knocked men out, ruptured organs, and in general beat them into the ground using open hand strikes.

It's all very curious...