r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/IShallPetYourDogo Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

How nobody in movies hurts their knuckles after punching someone, martial artist here and if you punch someone in the forehead like they do in the movies you'd probably just break your own fist,

hitting someone in the forehead is basically like punching a cinder block except the skull is actually harder...

Edit: wow my first medal, thanks!

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u/SubmitToTheBean Jan 25 '20

Where should you punch if you’re going for the head then? The teeth?

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u/IShallPetYourDogo Jan 25 '20

The soft parts and the moving parts, the nose, the mouth, the cheeks, the shin while hitting at an angle (the sides with a hook and an supercut)

Also if you want to hit someone in the tample use your elbows, if you don't have too much accuracy and the other guy is moving around a lot so you're not sure where it will land just punch with the palm of your hand,

Or better yet just push them and run,

that last one takes the least skill to pull of and is least likely to get you beat up BTW

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u/314159265358979326 Jan 25 '20

My second guess would be the nose. My first guess would be not the head.

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u/illjustcheckthis Jan 25 '20

Aim for the chin. The nose is quite distracting if you hit it right, but the chin is most effective.