spearhand

[Sam]

yeah - but as with most conditioning stuff you cause irreversible damage to your joints.....

[Adonis]

depends on how your methods of conditioning it and how often you do those methods.

[Menjo]

agreed

[Sam]

Ok yes - but [generally] especially with fingertips you can cause a lot of damage to the joints... not so bad for the knuckle conditioning

[elbows_and_knees]

Which tells me that it's not worth the risk. you're incresing your chances of arthritis and other things for a technique you may naver use full power on someone. I'f I'm damaging myself, I'd rather do so conditioning techniques I will use more regularly and with power.

[Menjo]

You dont have to damage yourself to condition, with moderation and time you can achieve great things. Everyone knows if you build up your conditioning training slowly and carefuly no damage should occur...

[elbows_and_knees]

sure, that's what they say. It's plausible too. But I would really like to see someone sperhand a person full power, right in the forehead, or into something harder, like concrete...

[Adonis]

thats like punching to the forhead. How many people got there hands broken doing that in UFC, y ou don't see it as common now. One do to the gloves but to people have better target accuracy and also better targerts they go for. Instead of ball there fist and try to pummel the other person with them.

You can make the spear hand work to soft targets but were saying condtion them to make it more safe for you.

[Sam]

yes but still - as far as the trainign goes [which is what ive said before ] there are better techniques that take less time to condition for

[elbows_and_knees]

thats like punching to the forhead. How many people got there hands broken doing that in UFC, y ou don't see it as common now. One do to the gloves but to people have better target accuracy and also better targerts they go for. Instead of ball there fist and try to pummel the other person with them.

You can make the spear hand work to soft targets but were saying condtion them to make it more safe for you.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. Anything is about target selection. But I have a greater chance of injuring myself on a missed spearhand than I do on a missed punch, which is my point.