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Broken arm from blocked roundhouse kick?

DanMMAleague said:
That can work a lot of the time but not as effective as leaning back.
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in the video I see the leaning back defense. I think that when 2 arms block fails you get a damaged hand, however when leaning back fails due to the kick going further than your lean back you get knocked out.
 
superpunch said:
I dont think people can kick that hard anymore in the USADA era
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IRENICUS said:
in the video I see the leaning back defense. I think that when 2 arms block fails you get a damaged hand, however when leaning back fails due to the kick going further than your lean back you get knocked out.
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That depends on the skill of the defender, when do you see Muay Thai fighters at the top level get knocked out by a roundhouse kick to the head - never.
 
whoever said you don't block kicks with your forearms in muay thai has never trained muay thai. In muay thai you designate you legs to blocking every roundhouse kick below you head. calf strikes, low kicks and body kicks can all be blocked with the K block.

However, roundhouses to the head, while best to be avoided, are supposed to be blocked with a double forearm block, meaning pull a front block up then rotate it to whatever side the roundhouse is coming in from. it is bad muay thai technique to block a head kick with one forearm, but faster and gets done all the time. But yes, it is accepted technique to block a head kick with a forearm, but the preferred method of a kick block is a double forearm block, thus spacing the impact out over two arms rather than absorb it with a single forearm bone.
 
mhyh92 said:
Go to the nearest mma/muay thaT/kickboxing gym wear pads and have 16 years old kick you with the pads on. You will realize a 16 can easily break your arm blocking a kick. Blocking kicks with your fore arms isn't a valid defense.
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Kicking pads and kicking a real opponent are 2 different things.

It's like theoretically a stomp can crush someones head pretty easily and a soccer kick can break comeones neck pretty easily but that never happened in PRIDE because it has to be the perfect stomp or soccer kick.

Just hitting pads, you get the perfect kick every time. Leg kick a heavy bag and you think you can TKO someone with leg kicks in just 1 kick every time. Hook and uppercut the pads and you think you're fucking Mike Tyson and gonna decapitate someone. Kick a real leg though and suddenly your kicks are 10% as powerful as you thought they were on the bag. Hit a real head though and suddenly you realize you hit lighter than Jon Fitch.

The difference between hitting pads and hitting a person is like the difference between kicking a pole and kicking a pole attached to a spring. When the force doesn't translate to a completely stationary object and instead that object has movable joints, 90% of your power just goes into moving that object instead of damaging it. It's like kick a piece of wood that a person is holding. It breaks and you look like a monster! Kick a piece of wood that's just sitting on the ground. All it does is fly 10 feet away and it doesn't break.

Normal human beings aren't going to be breaking arms with kicks lmao
 
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Jon Jones broke OSPs arm, that’s the most recent I can recall.
 
Wrapup said:
Jon Jones broke OSPs arm, that’s the most recent I can recall.
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And I think OSP has broken an arm or two himself with his kicks on other people iirc, his coach would call out “break it” when he kicked after those bouts.
 
superpunch said:
Kicking pads and kicking a real opponent are 2 different things.

It's like theoretically a stomp can crush someones head pretty easily and a soccer kick can break comeones neck pretty easily but that never happened in PRIDE because it has to be the perfect stomp or soccer kick.

Just hitting pads, you get the perfect kick every time. Leg kick a heavy bag and you think you can TKO someone with leg kicks in just 1 kick every time. Hook and uppercut the pads and you think you're fucking Mike Tyson and gonna decapitate someone. Kick a real leg though and suddenly your kicks are 10% as powerful as you thought they were on the bag. Hit a real head though and suddenly you realize you hit lighter than Jon Fitch.

The difference between hitting pads and hitting a person is like the difference between kicking a pole and kicking a pole attached to a spring. When the force doesn't translate to a completely stationary object and instead that object has movable joints, 90% of your power just goes into moving that object instead of damaging it. It's like kick a piece of wood that a person is holding. It breaks and you look like a monster! Kick a piece of wood that's just sitting on the ground. All it does is fly 10 feet away and it doesn't break.

Normal human beings aren't going to be breaking arms with kicks lmao
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They are. Shin > forearm.
 
Rvd Slmr said:
Gonzagua broke Couture's arm with a kick, Liddell broke Franklin's. It's amazing that they both lost despite such critical damage.

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Chuck broke rich' s right arm the same 1 he knocked Liddel out with ..got to love chucks glass chin
 
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