March 5, 2010 at 11:10 pm
#24801
Gary856
Participant
But even then the point is you’re not stiff-arming superman style so your hand/knuckle get knocked backward which cushions the impact. Like eon wrote (he said it better than I did) there is generally no weight behind the hand/knuckle. I think this is why a lot of high-end gloves use soft armor (padding) in the knuckle area, even though they’re at a price point where they could use hard armor if they needed to. You’re more likely to have broken wrists than knuckles. in a head-on or T-bone your head/shoulder are likely to take the brunt of the impact.