Punched in the side (I guess a sucker punch as he suddenly whaled off and punched me as he passed me) by a guy from one of my undergraduate classes. I was a student at the time. He was one of those good looking guys who suddenly finds a quiet female student attractive when he realises she takes good notes and is doing well in the class. He asked if he could photocopy my notes ahead of a final as he hadn’t been doing well, hadn’t been taking notes, and was an all-around slacker.
I said yes, of course, but if he had any questions, please call me (I wrote my number on the top page of the photocopies packet). He said he was sure it wouldn’t be a problem as I seemed to have such nice handwriting, and because I take notes in outline form.
I guess he figured he could wait until the night before to study, because when I got to the final he was already there, seething, because I don’t take notes in English. I did warn him.
Anyway, a few weeks later we happened to be passing one another in a crowded hallway, him in one direction, me in another, and he quick-smart punched me in the stomach/side as he walked by. Hurt a bit, but there really wasn’t enough room for him to get much momentum.
He was over 6 foot tall, pretty big guy; I was a slender girl. Awesome. (By the way, I did know he was a git being nice to me only because he thought ha ha he could copy all my work and score a good mark. But as I said, I did warn him that he probably wouldn’t be able to read them, so I have no sympathy for him.)
Interesting. I guess it makes sense about the adrenaline masking the initial pain until things settle down a bit.
I was just curious because I recently took a fairly strong electrical shock to the face, and it spun my head and my initial thought was that it felt like I got hit in the chin by a fastball. But after the instantaneous shock, there was no lingering pain since there was no actual impact. But it did make me wonder what a real shot to the face would feel like.
I was in a few scuffles as a kid but no actual punch/counterpunch fights. Now that I’m an old man of 45, wife, job and a couple kids, I don’t see myself ever being in the situation again. Happy about that.
And HotDogWater, that is what I was looking for (what I understood of it, anyway!)
I’ve rarely ever fought (being the skinny kid in class no one had to prove anything by beating me up). I did take a really violent elbow right to the eye during a rough basketball game which looked much, much worse than it felt.
A few times. Punches to the head disorient you so the other person can hit you more/better without taking anything back. I guess they were designed to. When two people fight who are semi-evenly matched, the one who can keep his head & think his way through it wins.
As long as you don’t 1) just stand there or 2) react instead of act, you have a shot. I don’t start fights, like fights, or ever want to be in a fight or near a fight. Ever. Walk away & let em razz. Best win you can hope for.
But on the ground and beaten into meat? I don’t want that either…
The few times I’ve been punched in the head with a bare fist were different. If I was angry and it didn’t hit anything soft - hardly noticed until later. Not angry and hit in the nose - tears in my eyes, unable to see and panicking. My brother punched me in the head one time and my legs turned to jelly. Down like a sack of potatoes. I think it all depends on where you are hit. Unlike John Wayne, I doubt I could take more that two punches to the head before I was unconscious or crying for mercy on the ground.
I was kicked in the face during a soccer game. Stunning at the time, then the blood started. The pain came a little later, like the next day, when my swollen face started throbbing.
Once, in a wreck, I shattered a car windshield with my face in two places. Didn’t even know I had any damage to my face until someone gave me a mirror. The human body can turn off the pain if it wants.
Nah, I got lucky. I didn’t realize it was a cop until after I took his little baton away. Fortunately he was an idiot, he had wandered into the melee without backup and lost his glasses in the scuffle. I didn’t hurt him and we helped him find his glasses and made sure he understood we were the good guys and had been jumped. This was not the entire story, but good enough for him, since there were like 10 against 4. Tasers didn’t exist at the time which was another lucky thing.
On three of the occasions I was attacked I was punched. On two of them it was a single punch to the face which I remember mainly as jarring, stunning, but with no actual pain until a couple of minutes later. Then I had bruising and a very sore jaw, in one case my jaw on my left side made popping sounds at the joint when I chewed or talked and opened my mouth too wide. It took about a month to heal.
The third time (which was the first chronologically) I was punched in the face, arms, back and breasts, stomach, probably 20 or thirty times. I was also hit with the butt of a shotgun several times as well. A couple of times when I was beaten my head snapped and hit against a steel truck bed. Again, it was more of a stunning feeling, incapacitating with little pain - at first. However, by the end of the beating I was reduced to being mostly unconscious, so the pain came later, hours later. Essentially I was covered in bruises and bruised muscles which made the simple act of laying down nearly impossible. I felt like I had taken a ride inside a tumble-dryer for an hour.
I have never punched another human being. I did however once, yes even with my small girly hand, punch a car windscreen almost hard enough to penetrate it (the plastic between the glass stretched). Amazingly, it really didn’t hurt, although two knuckles were scraped so heavily the skin tore off slightly.
On the subject of head hits, I have taken sword thrusts with a smallsword straight into my mask which have hit so hard that it’s dropped me to my knees, stunned. Without a mask even the blunted sword might have killed me.
When I was younger I fought alot. I had a slight temper and didn’t like people picking on me, my brother, or my friends. When I was playing hockey, I wasn’t really an enforcer but more of a stand-in for my team mates that couldn’t or wouldn’t fight.
I’ve been hit and hit people and as others have said, there’s not much pain felt during the fight, I would describe it as more of a numb feeling or sometimes a stinging sensation and then there’s the ringing in your ears.I don’t think I’ve ever been knocked out but I’ve seen stars several times.
The worst hit I ever took was at a friend’s house party and I had to throw a guy out that was a body builder and known steroid case. I’d like to think it was a pretty even fight, I had probably 8" and 40 pounds on him so I picked him up and fired him out the door. My mistake was that his best friend and training partner was waiting to the side just outside that door, so as I exited he suckered me one right above my left eye. If he’s hit me in the temple or jaw, I’d have been out cold but he only split my eyebrow open. I was dazed on my feet and I knew I was in trouble, if we weren’t in such close quarters I may have hit the ground but since I still had the first guy tied up and he was so much shorter than me I was able to regain my footing and throw an elbow over the top that connected with full force and most likely broke his nose and/or cheekbone. Once I regained most my senses I squared off to fight either or both of them, by this time my friends had also made it outside so they decided to turn tail and run.
Then I spent the whole night in the ER getting stitched up and the next couple of weeks with a black eye.
I have been in a handful of fist fights, mostly at bars, one during a basketball game.
When I have been punched in the face, it has always been in the same spot. It’s been a right hand connecting with my left cheek. It doesn’t hurt at the time. If it’s unexpected, it’s more of a shock than anything else. In the basketball game fight I was suckerpunched by a pretty strong guy. As his fist connected with my face and my head jerked like it was on a swivel, I literally saw a flash of stars. Even that didn’t really hurt. I kind of wondered what the hell just happened for about a second, then I retaliated.
I imagine a shot to the nose or chin would hurt more and do more damage. It’s really an interesting thing that the most common punch in a fist fight is thrown at the place it will probably do the least damage, the cheekbone.
Between basic street and bar fights and sports like rugby finding a part of me that hasn’t been battered is tough. Add Mom to all that and ----------
After the first couple the adrenalin cuts in and I usually don’t feel much until well afterwards. Broke my arm once and didn’t notice until I went to drive home and the shifter “felt funny”. Not being real pretty and being sort of thick skulled head shots aren’t going to get you anywhere with me unless you got more than a roll of dimes in your fist; monkey wrench would be the safer bet. But kidney shots drop me pretty fast. My kidneys aren’t great to start with and the whole area is sort of sensitive.
I’ve never been in a fight, but I was assaulted once and took a hard punch to the face/head (and was then shoved so my head hit a brick wall.
Didn’t hurt at all until minutes later. At the time, it felt like being ssuddenly struck by a large, blunt, somewhat hollow object (like a big hard plastic ball or something). I think that was because it made my ears ring.
I also never hurt my hand punching, but I was taught not to punch like a boxer or a karateka.
When we punched -
[ul][li]Hit with the bottom three knuckles, not the top two. The base knuckle of the ring finger should make primary contact. It is easier on the hand.[/li][li]Keep your thumb uppermost. Better wrist positioning, easier to get solid contact with the knuckles on the target.[/li][li]Use a snapping action. My sensei said it should be like driving a nail. You snap your fist into the target, and then instantly retract into the guard position, like cracking a whip.[/ul]But we always used striking to open up the opponent and break his balance so he could be thrown or taken down, and finished with a joint lock or strangle. [/li]
Regards,
Shodan
I’ve puched more than been punched but yeah it hurts a bit, and a couple of times I went all woozy with a vertigo sensation. The ones I hate most are split lips and eye shots, they seem to take forever to heal.
I took taekwondo lessons as a kid (I’d estimate ages 8-11) so I took a few punches there, but they were all with me and the other kids in pads so I wouldn’t count them.
In general, I’m not a very violent person and can’t think of any occasion when I’ve gotten into an actual physical fight. I have never thrown or taken a punch outside of taekwondo and maybe some horseplay when I was younger.
My dad was a street fighter as a kid and a boxer in the Navy. So when I was 14-15 I was always play fighting with him, throwing shadow jabs and punches.
Well, on of those time dear old dad decided to show me how slow my jabs were by tossing one of his fast shadow jabs right next to my face. Except at that same moment I was showing him my smooth head fake move.
Yep, I leaned right into the oncoming freight train. No one was more surprised at that moment than dad. The punch caught me at just a glancing blow but it was enough to spin me around and drop me on the kitchen floor.
Even though I can’t fight for crap I still had some of the old man’s fortitude and managed to not black out. I hit the floor and rolled my eyes a little bit while my mom looked on in horror. She then started punching dad and screaming at him.
I came to pretty fast and had the presence of mind to give dad a big old grin while mom was hitting him and then quickly assumed the “knocked out look” when mom turned to look at me.
She raged on him for another minute or two even though he kept protesting that I was OK. Because every time she would look my way my eyes would roll and my tongue would hang out. And every time she would turn her rage back to him I would grin at him like an idiot.
Afterwards he told me that the next time he was going to throw a punch at me he would make sure he got his money’s worth. I never challenged him again.
Only once. We were in a military club and a fight broke out between one of my guys and somebody else. The guy’s friends grabbed my cohort, so I grabbed the other guy in a full nelson as he was standing up. As we came up, my partner broke free and came flying at the guy I had, and winged a punch at his head. Unfortunately (because of dim lighting and alcohol), he didn’t see me behind the guy. Luckily, I saw the punch coming and ducked my head, catching it full on the forehead. Saw stars for a minute, for sure, but no ill after-effects.
You know what’s funny? Hearing the blows land and thinking “damn it sounds just like the movies”. Smack whack crack. I’ve given and recieved too many. If you are hit from the side it may turn your head too quick and upset your inner ear. It’s what knocks many folks out. I can stand it but you don’t know which way is up for awhile so all you can do is cover as best you can till the world rights itself and try not to fall. Most blows you don’t feel. I’ve heard one to the nose hurts the worst but I’ve never had one there. Most just want to shut my mouth and loose teeth will tighten up again unlike a broken nose which is surprisingly easy to give. My right ring finger knuckle is permanently out of place and I couldn’t tell you what fight it happened in. Still got my pretty face though.
You won’t think about getting hit as much as what place their swing has opened up. It’s the anticipation that is hard. The fight is not so bad. Even when you figure you have lost they usually don’t wan’t a rematch. A lot of times they even want to be your buddy after so don’t worry. I know that’s easy to say but dumbasses these days seem to place such emphasis on being hurt that they pull a gun rather than tote an ass whupping. Bunch of damn pussies. If somebody does pull a weapon punch them as hard as you can in the adams apple. Drive it back to the spine. Never use that unless you have to.
And damn Ms Boods what an ass. I had a woman black my eye so I threw her down and held her as I told her I could hurt her if I wanted then I let go. Don’t do that. She busted my lip. I still didn’t hit her. What an absolute ass your guy was. He needed his ass kicked. I know times are different but any man that hits a woman deserves no respect. He has lost his man card privilages.
Add yet another punch in the face to my long list. A drunk that I refused to allow entry decided to take a swing at me tonight at work. It glanced off my chin as I leaned back to avoid it and then I spun him around, applied a choke hold and rendered him unconscious.
I hate my job.
Yeah Una, sometimes it seems that my life (especially at work) is a real slow-motion train wreck.
Tonight wasn’t actually too bad, all things considered. I was far more capable than the sloppy-drunk idiot who took a swing at me and I managed to end things with no real damage to either of us.
