Truth about PUNCHING for self-defense

A popular "know it all" topic of the Martial Arts is whether a person should, or shouldn't use PUNCHES during a self-defense situation. Of course just about anyone who participates in any level of BOXING from professional to Mike Tyson's Nintendo knock out game, will surely warn you that their punching abilities make them indestructible on the streets. They truly will have no doubt in the effectiveness of their punches during street combative even if the only fight s that they have ever been in have been for sport in the ring with rules.

The flipside of this coin would come from the Martial Arts community where you would be sternly warned that punching during self-defense is incorrect, and that only open hand Martial Arts type strikes are appropriate for empty hand to hand self defense.

I must admit that I sway more in the direction of agreeing with the Martial Artist. Most people SHOULD NOT even consider punching for self-defense because first of all, they don't know how to punch correctly with precision. Additionally neither the hands of a boxing enthusiast or world class professional boxing champion are conditioned to be tough enough to win in a collision against the thick bone of the human skull. My vote had always been alongside "no punches" in self-defense until I looked back on the truths from my life. The truths of REAL fights on the REAL streets. Truths that allowed me to give you the truth about punching for self-defense in this video.