How to throw a punch without hurting your hand?

I got in my first fight yesterday, luckily for me the other guy was pretty drunk so I won by just throwing one big punch into his face. The bad news is that now I have a fracture in my hand, it was caused by the punch....How to avoid it in the future?|||By not hitting a hard object like the head.





If you are not conditioned to throw a punch, then don't. Be smart and avoid trouble.|||Practice punching without hand wraps, it will condition your wrist and knuckle strength. It takes years to properly train you hands to punch a hard object.



The whole idea of not punching someone in the head and using palms strikes is total BS from people who are too lazy to train their fists properly. Punching to the face is the most fundamental weapon in a street fight. Learning to punch and defending a punch is self defense 101.|||keep your fist at the same angle as your fore-arm (if putting an imaginary ruler on your top of your fist and arm they will be aligned), this will make shure you don't hurt your wrist. And try to wrap your wrist and knuckles with something before throwing a punch this will make shure you don't break any hand bones. The injury you picked up is probably a boxers fracture.|||When punching bare-knuckle, the best way to go is to aim for "soft" targets. This means you will be mostly punching to the body. A hard punch to the Sternum or Solar Plexus can end a fight. A punch under the ribs (liver shot) can end a fight. Low uppercuts to the groin or balls can end a fight. You will have to be more selective of your targets, which means punching quality will count for more than output (quantity).|||The human skull is the hardest bone in the body, and this is why you should never punch there. In boxing and MMA, they can punch to the head because they have nice little gloves on to protect them. I advise actually using palm strikes instead of punches, since it's harder to break your hands that way.





If you wanna punch, you should go for soft spots on the body, like liver shots. Go take a martial art if you actually wish to lear how to do that.|||Avoid it in the future by... NOT fighting, specially a drunk guy.


Don't try to reason with drunk people, just walk away, after all


they're drunk and stupid.





And to answer your question, always align the top or your hand


with the rest of your arm, make sure you hit with your knuckles,


with the first two if possible.|||when i get in fights i tape a slice of prizza on the end of my hand and it absorbs the shock of the punch. try it|||As you throw the punch, rotate your wrist so as to use your fist like a hammer, hitting from the little finger side.|||Well the best way to throw a punch is to put your thumb outside your closed fist. Otherwise you could break your thumb.|||I would advise brass knuckles but that is illegal^^|||Don't "throw" it.