Headbutt training?

[Adam]

Since I consider headbutting to be the most powerful weapon in my repertoire, I would like to hear how you people train in to improve this technique. Personally, I hammer my head a lot of times against a punching bag, but I get woozy from it and I also think it might be very bad for my brain and neck. And how do you train actually using it in a fight, since even a weak headbutt would break noses and remove teeth. Any tips?

[YODA]

Good headgear with face cage protection.

[Andrew Green]

Originally posted by Adam
Personally, I hammer my head a lot of times against a punching bag, but I get woozy from it and I also think it might be very bad for my brain and neck.

LOL!!!

Sorry.

Thats just funny.

Don't head butt a heavy bag, it's just weird

Going to make yourself punch drunk without ever getting punched

[Freeform]

I normally just 'place' the butts on my partner, except Tintin who I headbutt in the guts whilst I pulled his ankles last week

Midget go wheeeeee!

Then the rest of his Aikido class threw down on me and I had to crawl away

Col

[Hakko-Ryu]

keep headbutting until you start developing calouses on your forehead! then you'll have a super human headbutt...HAHAHA

[Mike Flanagan]

I couldn't believe this when I read it. You make yourself woozy? No insult intended, but that's just stupid. Use the bag for targeting and distance training, but don't batter your head into it.

Today I had lunch with a friend of mine who's a consultant neuropsychologist. He regularly assesses the cognitive functioning of people who've received head injuries, both major and minor. I mentioned this thread to him. I won't repeat what he said about the concept of headbutting a bag until you feel woozy, but suffice to say we both laughed lots and lots.

Please stop doing it, while you can still understand words of more than syllable.

Mike

[cmaauk]

I have to agree with Mike on that one!

Yes please do stop, head impact = concussion = compression = possible brain damage and maybe death.

Andrew Morrell
Cobra Martial Arts Association
www.cmaa.co.uk

[johndoch]

Headbutts on the heavybag??

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch to me

[Adam]

Duh...............Uuuuma?

You might be right that my general martial arts idiocy and near-obsession with Shaoling conditioning has gotten the better of me. I think I'll stop, hitting the bag with my head wasn't fun anyway, it hurt a bit.

Thank you for saving my brain from near-retardation by the age of 18, although I'll probably manage to achieve that anyway with my training mentality

[chaozkingz]

Adam, I have no idea how to explain how loud i laughed when i read about what u did...

but i guess a headbutt like any other strike comes from your stances anyway... so just to add power maybe push with your body more?

i see u r doing judo, so just practice ur breakfalls and wrestling heaps and it should gradually build up ur neck muscles.

[Chinesericeboy]

Use hands and feet....nice joke though...

[Mu4D'D1b]

When i read the main topic i was going to reply that i'm doing the "Knocking head on heavy Bag technique" too but now im almost shy to admit it lolll

But Adam at least know that i'm with you lol

[Saz]

I don't see how you can train a headbutt, i think its one of those things you can't practise in class. Maybe you could think about headbutt timing more, like when exactly you would strike with one. I think you've bought into the Mas Oyama training headbutts thing a bit too much on this one Adam Thank god you don't have a lampost

[Joe karate]

Just take Yodas advice and get a face mask.

[tl Eric]

Hey all, this is my first post so let me know if I follow ettiquite correctly.
I have heard of a training technique for conditioning your head for headbutting etc. Wrap a length of silk around your head twenty times then headbutt a wall or something of the likes between 150 and 250 times per day. Every three months remove a layer of silk and repeat process, so gradually when you get to one layer of silk and then remove silk all together and you will have a fantastic new trick of being able to headbutt a brick wall without feeling any pain. Not that I would do this myself as I consider brain cells too valuable, not to mention few and far between.