Things players say to me

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Henchman99942

I don't know jack about MA.

But it seems to me that you should not be practicing by kicking people in the head.

I didn't kick actual people in the head on a daily basis any more than a boxer punches people in the head on a daily basis. However, the boxer trains to punch people in the head, and a TKD tournament fighter trains to kick people in the head.

Kicks landed on the head count for more points than kicks landed on the body (usually), and strikes landed on limbs Just Don't Count. So you do a lot of training to get good at landing full strength blows at headish-like targets. Then you do practice sparring, where you aren't using full-strength blows (and everyone is wearing body armor and head protection) and train landing blows on actual defended heads, lightly. In full contact matches you put those two parts of your training together and punch and kick people in the head. Yay.

You can see why I didn't do tournament fighting.