collarbone strikes

[sonofjay817]

I've always heard that it only takes seven pounds of pressure to break the clavicle. That being the case, why don't we see MMA competitors using collarbone strikes. It seems to me it wouldn't be that hard to strike someone there. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad they don't because I don't care to see that level of brutality, but as far as I know, there isn't a rule against it.

 

[ArtOfDrowning]

Because......










































































......there is a rule against it.

 

[Rod Farva]

That actually sounds very difficult to do. I wouldn't want to spend the fight trying to hit a guy in the collarbone

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

Start practicing Axe Kicks bud

 

[Concrete Whale]

north south knees could be utilised

 

[Degen Gambler]

I've always heard that it only takes seven pounds of pressure to break the clavicle.

 

[BC]

Because......










































































......there is a rule against it.

Yeah don't you know the rules TS?

 

[reveler]

do you even clavicle bro?

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Man.. just don't tell Jon Jones about it.

 

[Scuba]

I also would like to see judo chops being utilized

 

[Richard Fannin]

I remember a fight in which one of the (both japanese) guys (the smaller one) stepped on the bigger guy's foot when he was trying to move backward and immediately punched him right in the collarbone, retreated and waited for the ref to stop the fight (bigger guy was obviously injured).

It was a pretty old fight by sherdog's standards, aka more than 15 years ago; maybe in Shooto?
Since then I've always wondered why more fighters didn't try to use that technique...
If someone recalls a similar fight, please post If someone recalls a similar fight, please post

RF

 

[thehighking]

I got a punch in the clavicle before, very close to a fracture and it was very sore for at least a week, it was an annoying dull pain always there that hurt even more every time I swallowed . But I don't think even a broken clavicle would be enough to stop a person from fighting. With adrenaline it might not even be noticed until the fight is over

 

[Gratis]

Because......

......there is a rule against it.

I looked it up and the rules only explicitly prohibit grabbing the clavicle, didn't see anything in regards to strikes.

 

[Candy Routure]

I broke my Clavicle and it fucking sucks.

 

[thehighking]

I've always heard that it only takes seven pounds of pressure to break the clavicle.

If it only took 7 pounds of pressure then children all over the world would be crippled trying to carry their school bags with broken collarbones

 

[dildos]

 

[azerty]

7 pounds seems like nothing, pushing your clavicule very lightly is probably about 7 pounds of pressure, if not more. so i don't really believe this, seems like the old "if you uppercut someone in the nose you can push their nose's bones into their brain" or how in the movies it only take a light twist to break someone neck

 

[Billy no mates]

Don't know about 7 pounds.....but it would be very difficult to hit an active opponent accurately with a descending technique Andy Hug was king of the Ax kick if anyone could of managed it it would've been him but I don't recall him breaking any ones collar bone .

 

[My name is]

surely it takes more than 7 lbs . I've heard it takes 8 to rip an ear off

 

[FinBJJ]

7 pounds of pressure where? In which direction? In what circumstances?
I suppose 7 pounds might be enough in a situation where you have a clavicle taken from an elderly female cadaver put in a vice or some shit and put the pressure in the middle of the bone.
But breaking it with strikes seems very unlikely to me, better chance with takedowns.