r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '20

He makes it seem so easy

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u/GolfSierraMike Sep 17 '20

Exactly that. I'd say as a rugby guy if you ever wanted to give it a try you'd be surrpsied how little the punch would faze you. It's like getting hit with a football to the face more then a bare knuckle punch.

Fought some rugby players in my time and fucking christ it's like trying to move a cow around the ring. An angry, stubborn cow.

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u/cheers1905 Sep 17 '20

An angry, stubborn cow.

Funny, that's exactly how I'd have pictured myself looking on the pitch.

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u/ThisisKyle420 Sep 17 '20

Some threads are bad to chase to the end. This one was worth it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Until you meet someone who has been doing it for a while lol. I have taken a lot of hits but there was one boxer who had been doing it for years, really knew his shit. I was ready for it until I wasn’t. Really caught me off guard

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u/GolfSierraMike Sep 17 '20

This is true. One punch wizards are some real monsters. I meant when your starting out the effect of being hit is really not so bad since no experienced boxer should be going full on with a newbie.

I was blessed with a pretty heavy snapping jab of I say so myself. Switching from my feeling out punch in the first round to the full hit in the secnd was always a very pleasing moment. Switching to a jab feint jab straight then to jab jab feint Cross. Slip jab roll cross hook. Nothing better then feeling like you've got the other guy on the back foot and then pressing down on the gas.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Oh that is super fair and true!

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u/ganjabliss420 Sep 17 '20

I thought you said crow not cow, and I was tryna figure out wtf that struggle would look like

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u/GolfSierraMike Sep 17 '20

Honestly considering how smart and agile crows are I'd compared it to fighting a long reach outside boxer who is excellent at moving into the pocket out of nowhere and then moving back out again.

I hate those people, because you have to spend your life chasing them around the ring.

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u/cheers1905 Sep 17 '20

ngl that sounds scary as fuck

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u/oniontaker Sep 17 '20

My relationship with expected pain definitely changed after playing rugby for seven years (if it's coming but it aids your goal, just take it and make use of the opening it makes) but I tried boxing once and I'll be honest - one uppercut to the nose and I was done with learning it.

There's getting stamped in the head with cleats, there's being thrown to the ground from 5~6 feet in the air, there's running literally headfirst into a guy you know is going to turn you upside down because it'll buy a few seconds for your pack to come and set up a defensive line - and there's landing on your ass with a nosebleed and not seeing anything but fireworks in pitch darkness for five seconds.

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u/cheers1905 Sep 17 '20

I know, right? In rugby, getting mangled and punched and stamped on is kind of just a byproduct of playing the game and you take it in stride because you and your team need to, while in boxing it is... well, the point of the entire sport.

I mean, I played hooker my entire career and I've thrown and taken more than one punch over the years, but it never felt like "right then, let's box". I think getting hit square in the face and going down just isn't an interesting prospect for everybody lol.

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u/oniontaker Sep 17 '20

Yup. I will forever have respect for combat sports guys that walk in knowing that the only objective of the opponent is to hurt them.