People say a bigger fist means harder punching but I don't believe it

[TidWell]

Lennox Lewis Hands even got Adrien Broner shook

 

[DagOban**]

Who needs science, we got Drain Bamage!

 

[MotorCityCobra]

 

[magicmarker]

There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Would you rather play dodgeball with baseballs than golf balls, probably baseballs. Easier to pick up visually and less damaging.

In order to visualize it in mma you have to eliminate all other variables.

Take a fighter like Carwin or Francis and imagine them hitting you in the face or body with different size hands and everything else being equal and there are pros and cons to both sides of the spectrum. Too big and it’s less likely to land directly on the button, but harder to avoid altogether. Too small and it could break your bones very easily but also be easier to avoid the shot.

There are diminishing returns as well as exaggerated advantages at both ends of the spectrum.

 

[legcramp]

Someone didn't take physics 101

 

[rockylion]

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Who's wife is this?

 

[airic_15]

This dude has built in boxing gloves

 

[jeremyemilio]

If you think about it, consider this situation:

If Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko both punch with a pretty similar force. Which I think is pretty likely because Brock had great size but not great technique, and Fedor had decent size but great technique and ferocity. So lets just pretend for the sake of this test that it balances out.



So let's say they both represent 100 punching power and lets say Brock has a hand size 10 and Fedor has a hand size 7, people often think you multiply the power by the hand size to get how much total force is there but that's wrong. What you do is divide because force is because spread out over the area of impact.

So Brock hits you for 100 over an area size 10, that means you only feel 10 damage.
Fedor hits you for 100 over an area size 7, that means you feel 14.285 damage.



Brock's fist is like getting hit by a big tree stump, which sucks but Fedor's fist penetrates into you like a spear piercing deep tissue and organs.

No.

If you're talking about the force that the fist exerts on the chin to make it move (vs the force that the fists exerts on the jawbone to penetrate the bone itself), then the idea of force being more concentrated with a smaller fist is pretty much irrelevant.

The bigger fist is heavier, though, which creates more momentum.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

I noticed Kahbib has small hands. He seems to hit pretty hard.

Not sure where you get that idea.

 

[Based and White Pilled]

This is a dumb thread, but I'll bite.

A good punch doesn't land with the entire hand so you don't need to divide by the surface area to come up with the force. You aren't starting with a pressure.

Force (and momentum) are greater with greater mass. A larger hand hits harder when thrown at the same velocity.

 

[Skankhunt420]

F = ma.

M is for Mass

So yes

 

[KingKali]

"When George Foreman hits you, it's like a Mack Truck hitting you at 40 miles an hour. And when Joe Frazier hits you, it's like a Pontiac car hitting you at 100 miles an hour. It's a different feel to it, you know? But they both hurt."

George Chuvalo

 

[Regal Boy]

below is a long meandering explanation of what we all already know.

Bigger hands usually mean higher overall weight which increases punching power (up to a point).

If you're "arm punching" (and thus punching incorrectly) then bigger hands could add more force because there's more mass on the arm.

With proper punching technique, you are punching with your skeleton, the entire skeleton is moving as one solid structure and all of the flesh and meat that hangs off the skeleton comes along for the ride which makes the overall mass equal to your weight. When this happens, hand size isn't a relevant factor at all, because the whole body's mass is being multiplied by the acceleration of the skeleton (or as much as the skeleton is unified via proper body unity into the punch).

If you are 230 pounds and punch with proper skeletal alignment then that is 230 pounds of mass moving at whatever speed you're moving at. It doesn't matter whether the hand is big or small at that point, it's still 230 pounds of mass moving. Larger hands are advantageous there because they can take more damage (remember kinetic energy moves both ways). A 230 pound person that is hanging their weight off of a more gracile skeleton will break their own skeleton under their own generated power more easily than a person who's frame is bigger naturally. But they will both punch with equivalent force regardless of the shape of the fist if both of the skeleton's are moving with equal speed.

 

[gevoudane]

First its technique, then its all about speed and mass.

 

[kickpuncher]

haha
Explained this to someone in a bit of different way but same stupid face response. Said would you rather get hit with a basketball or baseball at 100 mph ?

I think I'd rather get hit with the basketball at 100mph. How about baseball or football at 100mph?

 

[Fahcough]

I think I'd rather get hit with the basketball at 100mph. How about baseball or football at 100mph?

baseball, been hit with a few of them 70+ (not in head) Football is pointy

 

[west42]

Does finger size matter? Can have large palms and skinny fingers

It probably makes masturbation difficult

 

[smart.feller]

There was an old OC punk band called Drain Bramaged

I remember them! I used to have the "I Won't Be" album, saw them a few times around Fresno, CA in the mid-late 90s.

 

[r-harper-1]

big hands small penis

Nope

 

[Bacco]

In terms of Power, no great difference

But in terms of durability big hands are far better equipment

Also having big hands usually traslate into have big bones on general wich Is a great trait to have for a fighter