Synthetic Knuckles For Your Feet?

[Termite]

I like my key-ring thingy better. That it looks like some Japanese sex symbol, and not a weapon, is a bonus.

[HTRN]

It's fairly obvious what they're for - extracting money from mall ninjas.

[Yogimus]

It's fairly obvious what they're for - extracting money from mall ninjas.

Tactical timmies

[Steamforger]

Weird, because those carbon knuckles are NOT for punching. They are to protect your hands in the case of contact with concrete/engineblocks/etc... A good solid punch with one of those tactical knuckle gloves, and you learn really fucking quick why boxing gloves are soft. The hardened "protector" sucks at distributing impact force to the hand.

Ummm. I think you and I are thinking of different things.

[Yogimus]

Indeed, I was referring to the gloves. My apologies.

[MarkD]

There there's This. I think I would rather just hold two or three of my car keys jutting out from between my fingers like wolverine, than even take the chance of having to defend my use of something like this.

That looks like a good way to hurt yourself......

[Nicodemus]

There there's This. I think I would rather just hold two or three of my car keys jutting out from between my fingers like wolverine, than even take the chance of having to defend my use of something like this.

That looks like a good way to hurt yourself......

It would probably hurt the other guy more but the shitty wrist alignment required for square contact plus the metal sounds like a win/lose.

The way I teach is to throw your rear strait and uppercuts with a fist and lead strait and hooks with an open hand. The reason is the rear strait and uppercuts have the force and angle to damage the wrist with an open hand and the hooks the angle and force to damage your hand with a closed fist. The lead strait, well, and accidental if not incidental finger to the eye on top of a jab, why not?

When you make a fist you engage the flexors which are pull muscles, working against the rest of the body to push the hand towards the target with maximum force. At least outside 90 degrees. If your elbow is at a right angle or less then close your fist the force goes from extension to retraction, if more, extension is continued through the motion. If your elbow is outside 90 degrees closing the fist robs power.

Like yogi mentioned above, gloves weren't introduced into boxing to protect the person being punched but actually the person throwing it. Too many bare knuckle boxers broke their hands shortening fights.