what hurts more?

Question

a kick to the body or a punch to the body
and how do you use the footsword and which area do you strike it to the body

anyone who has got into a fight using martial arts, did you get punched or maaybe in a clinch

Answer 1

How much either one will hurt depends a lot on your level of conditioning.

Having been a competitive Kickboxer, I can tell you that at my peak of conditioning I could take a roundhouse kick to the body and not even flinch. It would hurt some for the next week or so after the fight, but not at all at the time it was delivered. Punches to the body tended to have more of an immediate effect. The reason for this is that a ten ounce boxing glove has a smaller striking surface than a shin. The shin would spread the force of the impact over a larger area. Punches with the smaller surface area of the glove focuses the force, and that force is felt deeper in the body.

Sorry, I am not familiar with the term "footsword". Maybe in Muay Thai we called it something different.

Answer 2

Kicks are more powerful, so by nature they are more painful, however, a properly executed hand technique can cause far more damage than a kick. It really depends on where, specifically, you want to hit them. For pain, one of the best places to hit is the upper lip. There's a huge pocket of nerves that are very close to the skin. The groin, solar plexus, and just under the sternum are good, to. For damage, you want to hit between the ribs, at the spine if you're behind them, kick at the knee, or--especially deadly--strike with a backfist at a point right near the temple. I can't tell you exactly where it is without being in person--I'm bad at that kind of stuff. ^_^ Anyway, if you can strike hard enough to penetrate 3/4 of an inch (not that difficult, surprisingly), you'll paralyze the heart and diaphragm (which controls breathing). It's a killing blow, so don't use it unless your life is threatened. Hit slightly less hard, and you'll knock them out or double them over, but I still wouldn't do it just in case you do hit them hard enough to kill them.

Answer 3

It depends on where the place has been punctured. If you get kicked in the groin, it'll probably hurt less than a punch, cause a hand is smaller. But on more sensitive areas use your fist, and on less, use your legs. Legs are stronger so they can take on the sensitive and non sensitive areas. A punch can hurt really bad, but yet so can a kick, but you have to use them both the correct way if you want it to really hurt.

Answer 4

The kick or Punch to the body depends on what part of the body and how hard it was. I'm guessing if they were both in the same place and the same amount of force that the kick would be much harder.
Footsword you usually attack the mid section or even the head if you get the chance.
I got into a clinch at a dojo when I was practicing and we were using knees, but I got out of it fast so nothing happened.
Dim Mak is also known as the Death Touch Martial Art and utilizes blows to pressure points of the body in order to compress maximum pain and force to that one area.
www.dimmak.com

Thanks for your time.

Answer 5

Depends on who you talk to...

You could be talking to somebody who is quite a way along in the study of internal martial arts who might give you a response such as:

Pain is an illusion!

OTHERWISE there are such variables as:
What part of the body?
and
How much more force (if any) is there in the kick than in the punch?

Answer 6

Generally, a back kick is the most powerful kick, but using the proper techniques, any other kick or punch could be as deadly.

Answer 7

the straight punch to the heart under the fifth rib is a kill any good snapping blow foot or hand can rupture the kidneys liver or the spleen or the breaking of a rib into the lung at the lower floating ribs upward or at the lung meridian at the fifth rib down under the armpit is a lung puncture kill , read an old blackbelt magazine at the library with the title , chi power through DIM MAK its been called Black Dragon Kung Fu its a rebel style of hand and low kick southern kungfu ,, read a book on the medicine of shoulin temple they explain slow killing techniques with blows to organs or the chi points ,,

Answer 8

It depends on who's doing the punching or kicking.

Answer 9

Got punched in the stomach once, knocked the wind out of me. I was paralyzed and my opponent took the opportunity to finish me with an uppercut. Ouch.

Answer 10

Now I for one have not been puched so hard that it hurts. I try to avoid the attack but put the hurt on the other guy.

My Chinese name is Shi Kuen (stone fist), for good reason.
I try to hurt my opponent in any way I can, be it a strike to the leg or arm or any boney area while they try to hit me. I will punch their arm at the wrist, or forearm bone side, or on the shin or femor bone side, beleive me this detours alot of people.

Pain is not a welcome feeling especially when you are going to try to hit someone whom you know is really going to inflict pain on your body.

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