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- From: rtang@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (The One Your Mother Warned You About!)
- Subject: Re: The art of head-butting!
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:46:31 GMT
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- In article <1e9t94INNgts@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bp652@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gil W. Lau) writes:
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- >In a previous article, shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) says:
- >>I've always wondered, how do you pull off a successful headbutt without
- >>hurting yourself? I've experimented/practiced a little bit (ow!), and
- >>found that the part of the skull about three inches above the eyebrows
- >>is a TOUGH spot in the skull. It's ABOUT where the hairline recedes. I
- >>hit a wall w/ my head and it didn't hurt.. too much. :) Call me
- >>insane.. :)
- >You're INSANE!!! I hate to see the twenty-odd other times you did
- >it against the wall and found out that part of the skull was not as
- >tough!! *wince*
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- Man, thats right up there with blocking with your groin! <ouch!>
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- >Basically you've got the right part of your skull to use. Never use
- >your forehead against your opponents like you always see in the movies.
- >What you want to do is to slam your crown moving in a straight line
- >into the guy's face. This is what's been taught to me, but I kinda
- >doubt I'll ever use it in combat. A good knee smash to the groin
- >should do the trick!
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- But think of this Sam, if you posted BEFORE you started you
- experimented with the hardness of your head, you could have gotten
- the right spot "right off the bat". Or more like a bat to the head.
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- I am just curious, HOW MANY times did you knock yourself out, Sam?
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