question about chins

Jake Lamotta when asked why he believed he had such a great chin answered that he now believed he used a type of self hipnosis before he even knew what it was.He constantly said over and over in his mind,no one can hurt me,no one can hurt me over and over and over even during fights.And they dident,so yes up to a point I believe its mindset.

 

I heard having strong neck muscles help alot. Holyfield did neck excersises so that the muscles would be able to absorb the impact better.

 

Different people believe different things.

Tyson did neck exercises, like curly said Holyfield did/does.

And then like barrington mentioned with LaMotta, Wayne McCullough believes it's all in the mind.

I don't believe the ability to take a punch well and not be hurt or stunned is in the mind because if it happens it happens, but I believe staying up is because it's a question of heart.

 

im not boasting but i have a good chin, i spar alot of older guys and adults and give up alot of weight it makes me quite defencive as i dont want to get hit but i do sometimes and im not that fazed

but my brother also has a good chin but crp neck muscles so his heads being hit around and i reckon hell get KOd alot

i think its the mind, a naturally strong neck and legs but i also have a hard head people have broke hands on my head so maybe thats it

 

Bloody hell, lol

 

Lol, I have pretty strong leg base and quite a hard head, I'm not sure whether that's an indication of how good my chin'll be. It's not really been tested so I wouldn't know.

About the only time I've really taken a good shot was when I was stoned on a night out - posted about it on here better - and got punched bare knuckle and broke my cheekbone lol. I didn't go down but I staggered backwards and layed up on those horizontal metal bars, so I don't know whether I'd of gone down. Probably though. Cheekbone swelled like a *****.

 

just once i had a fight afew years ago with a guy and his mates and i didnt want to kick the **** out of this guy or all his mates was going to go on me and thats mental but the guy laid into me for like 10 minutes and i jsut took it and then walked off unmarked and he walks off with a brokn hand :rofl:rofl

glad to say those days are past me now though

 

I believe it's based on your neck muscles, when you're hit your head swings into another direction. Kind of like when you go in circles really fast. Throws off your equilibrium, the stronger the neck the less impact the punch will do.....well to your head anyways

 

When a guy's broken down enough, you'll often see the vertebrae in his neck shift back when hit by a stiff jab. The bout's usually stopped with the next flush shot once that's started getting bad. Even with the chin tucked properly and rolling with the punches like a Librado Andrade-style beast, I can't imagine that the chin's got any resistance left by that point.

Wish my head was strong enough to break hands! Wow! The best I've ever done is counter headbutts with my own and come away unmarked except for blood spatter... those days are long behind me, too. :verysad

 

You can break someone's hand with your head. When they punch lower your head and take it on the forehead

 

I think it comes down to mindset and heart. You have to have a confident mindset, if your scared to get hit boxings not your game. Sometimes you can get rocked from a shot no matter how good your chin is, thats when heart comes in when you know your opponent can hurt you.

 

i think strong neck muscles only help when you get hit by straight punches

 

I think it's like with punching power. You can develop it to a certain extent set genetically. After that you've reached your limit. Same with chin. But there are exercizes to develop your ability to take your punch. Some things they do in Russian gyms:

-Neck training - as was mentioned before
-lots of training to develop your vestibular apparatus. i.e. to deal with a spinning motion in your head and remain in balance/upright. We did three exercizes.
(1) Doing forward roll-backward roll -forward roll many many times and then getting up and shadow boxing
(2) standing in the centre of the ring and spinning as fast as we could. People would start off at 20 seconds, then build this up until several minutes. It was really funny watching people fall over when they did it for the first time. I would do spinning four times - left and right after every morning run.
(3) combining the spinning exercize with light sparring. One person would spin, the other wouldn't. After the spin the coach would count 8 seconds (like a standing eight count), and the boxer would need to work on his survival technique while the other guy came forward (obviously keeping down his punching power!).

Especially the last exercize was useful for keeping cool when the real thing happened. Obviously, you should be sparring as much as possible. Nothing prepares you to get hit better than actually getting hit. I agree with what some people have said here - how you REACT to getting hit is psychological.

 

personally its all mental with me if you dont give a fukk and just care about boxing til the end i think youll be able to, unless u get ur **** really rocked