Headbutts in fights

[phorsenuf]

So I'm (sort of) watching a movie and there is a fight scene where one guy head butts the other and the guy on the receiving end falls down and is dazed. See that a lot in movies. But why is it (and yes, I know it's just a movie) the head butt'er', doesn't fall down as well. Wouldn't the force be just as hard for him?

One of those Sunday afternoon ponders I guess.

 

[HonestAbe]

Well, you're supposed to head butt the opponent in the nose with your forehead. That will knock the other guy silly.

But straight noggin to noggin really depends on who has a higher tolerance for pain and where along the evolutionary chain you are. Either way, when we did this as kids, it always hurt both of us!!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

That commercial where the girl head butted John Stamos she was able to go on eating yogurt

 

[ChrisFL]

I've thought about that too...I guess you have to be either A.) experienced in how it works...or B.) trained to not let it hurt you....like the Shaolin Monks who train by hitting all kinds of things on their heads, bricks, bamboo, wooden planks, etc.

Anyway, maybe the Mythbusters could test it sometime

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Ermmm. . .because movies are not real life? In real life, if you fall more than a few feet, you break something. In real life, if you crash through a window, you wind up with a lot of bleeding cuts that will require first removal of the glass and then stitches - and possibly the repair of all the things you've cut up in your body! And in real life, you head butt someone, you both hurt.

Of course, in real life, you can't "clean up" a digital photo to find a killer on a grainy old surveillance camera that's been filming since 1996. And you shouldn't stop CPR after 20 seconds and decide that the dude is dead. . .

I am now getting off my soap box before this turns into a long laundry list of things that are "tv reality" before I work myself up, LOL. Suffice to say that anything that you see on TV is completely suspect and probably untrue.

 

[phorsenuf]

Ermmm. . .because movies are not real life? In real life, if you fall more than a few feet, you break something. In real life, if you crash through a window, you wind up with a lot of bleeding cuts that will require first removal of the glass and then stitches - and possibly the repair of all the things you've cut up in your body! And in real life, you head butt someone, you both hurt.

Of course, in real life, you can't "clean up" a digital photo to find a killer on a grainy old surveillance camera that's been filming since 1996. And you shouldn't stop CPR after 20 seconds and decide that the dude is dead. . .

I am now getting off my soap box before this turns into a long laundry list of things that are "tv reality" before I work myself up, LOL. Suffice to say that anything that you see on TV is completely suspect and probably untrue.

Yes, I know it's not real life, said that in my post. Was just some light-hearted fun on a boring Sunday afternoon is all.

 

[Sgt Mickey]

But why is it (and yes, I know it's just a movie) the head butt'er', doesn't fall down as well.
One of those Sunday afternoon ponders I guess.

WHy would you need to get on a soap box???? It is a hypothetical...I know it isn't really but why question
She obviously realizes it is a movie. (see her remarks above.)

 

[Stitchfans]

All I know is that, the other night when my 19 month old grandson head butt me and hit me in the face I saw stars. He walked away with a smile. That is until he saw I had tears in my eyes, then the smile disappeared

 

[Sgt Mickey]

All I know is that, the other night when my 19 month old grandson head butt me and hit me in the face I saw stars. He walked away with a smile. That is until he saw I had tears in my eyes, then the smile disappeared

awwww Children seem to have tough heads. I remember getting quite a few head butts from mine too and they always were fine.

 

[topolino]

The high part of your forehead, just under your hairline, is the hardest part of your head. Like another poster said, if you use that part of your head to butt the face, and more specifically the nose of the opponent, it can be damaging.

It's not just in the movies; It happens in real fights and in boxing matches. In fact in boxing it is illegal and usually results in the cutting and bleeding of the buttee.

 

[ladypage]

Like everyone else said, it depends on where and how you hit it, I think. When I was about 12 I was wrestling with my brother and head butted him, he went down, and I walked away laughing. And he definitely has a stronger tolerance for pain than I do!

 

[HonestAbe]

Guy I work with has 3 yr old boy and 5 yr old girl. They head butted last week and he just strolled along like nothing happened and she was in tears on the floor.

The amazing thing was when the boy decided to crawl over the seat and reach for his GI Joe (l'il guy has figured out how to escape his car seat!) on the dash and shattered the windshield in the Suburban with his noggin. He didnt realize that there was glass there. He apparently just went "huh?" then grabbed his GI Joe and strapped himself back in.

 

[SandrA9810]

I always find it funny how crime shows can open with one guy giving a fell swoop to some one over the head and kill the person, but later in the show when he's fighting with the cops that he's the one that winds up only getting knocked out by a blow to his head.

A single gun shot can result in instant death, but no one dies during an all out gun fight with a hundred shots fired.

 

[low-key]

It does seem like it would hurt your head, Im gonna invent the Buttbutt move, where you knock someone out by crushing them with your butt

 

[low-key]

It does seem like it would hurt your head, Im gonna invent the Buttbutt move, where you knock someone out by crushing them with your butt

and you could fart on them when you leave to establish total domination

 

[snarlingcoyote]

It does seem like it would hurt your head, Im gonna invent the Buttbutt move, where you knock someone out by crushing them with your butt

I'm not saying I would go to the theater and pay $10 to see that in a movie, but dang, I would certainly get the DVD when it came out.

 

[low-key]

I'm not saying I would go to the theater and pay $10 to see that in a movie, but dang, I would certainly get the DVD when it came out.

Coco and Jeniffer Lopez could have a death match

I need to stop , Im not in the 5th grade

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Coco and Jeniffer Lopez could have a death match

I need to stop , Im not in the 5th grade

You have the male answer to Magic Mike!

 

[Sgt Mickey]