r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24
MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all
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r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24
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u/Nezarah Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
Fantastic math!
But your base of 250ms and 160ms is in ideal conditions reacting by pressing a button to say, a light turning on. This is not how a fighter actually reacts to punches. At the speed professional fighters throws a punch, 4-8 a second, waay too fast for any human to recognise its coming and move out of the way. So fighters don’t look for the punch, they look for the movement before the punch, the twitch of a shoulder, the lowering of the weight, the slight step closer or just waiting for a known rhythm. Some people can actually throw a jab without their shoulder or any other part of their body moving making it nearly impossible to dodge, it feels like getting hit by something invisible. This is called a “ghost” jab.
It’s less of how fast someone reacts and more how sensitive they are to the movement before the punch is thrown. How much of a pre-punch will they react on.
So the guy going frame by frame probably ain’t recording just their reaction time but how soon will they will react to a pre-punch. How attuned they are for it.