It would still be unfair and frankly dangerous for women. Yes it's a vulnerable spot. No it doesn't make men weaker than women in a fight.
The original ufc fights had no prohibition on groin shots. Plenty of martial arts were designed for combat not sport. None of them entirely dedicated themselves to trying to hit the opponent in the balls.
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How is thay an even match? You punch a dude in the balls he's done
So according to your line of thought, in real life, when there are no rules, men and women are about evenly matched?
Of course not. Yes, men have this weak spot, but they're still way stronger.
I would enjoy seeing such matches. I think it would be very interesting and difficult to know who would win with such rules.
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I´ve been training martial arts since I´m 8 years old, so I have quite a bit of experience in fights with mixed gender.
Men usually are taller, giving us more reach and other tactical advantages, like making it easier to kick your opponents head. We are also stronger, wich is a huge deal. Strength allowes us to take a lot of hits without taking much damage while making our attaks more dangerous. If I fight an average women I can ignore a large part of her attacks without taking much pain. This is due to rules that forbid attacking weak spots like neck, eyes, knees and groin. She on the other hand has to be extremly carefull, since most of my attacks could cause enough damage to her for me to follow up with a fight ending combination. While she is forced to go all out I can decide if I want to tire her out while holding some of my strength back or if I just go all out, too and overwhelm her. I have so many advantages and absolute controll over the pace while she has pretty much nothing going on for her. It´s a very onesided fight and not much fun for anyone.
As a teenager I didn´t use a groin cup, since I couldn´t really find one that properly fitted. While aiming for the groin on purpose was forbidden, there always was a risk that one of the kicks accidentally hit the groin. Boys where always very carefull about that, but some girls where not. So I had some fights with girls that I knew had a bad aim with their kicks. Compared to fights where groin shots where not such a risk, I couldn´t just fight as if I was invincible. I had to focus way more on my own defense wich releaved some of the pressure from her. I also couldn´t easily overwhelm her with hyperagressive attacks without opening myself to the significant risk that one of her counterkicks hits my groin. Over all it was way more fun to fight her then to fight the girls that made sure to never accidentally hit the groin. It was painfull sometimes, but a kick to the groin isn´t more painfull then a kick to the liver, so i didn´t really mind that. I already knew I didn´t want to have kids so I wasn´t too worried about injuries. It is martial arts after all, any failed kick that hits your knee might prevent you from ever doing sports as unrestricted as now again. Every hit to the head can cause brain bleeding and possibly kill you. Compared to that the risk of groin injury doesn´t sound that bad anymore. Overall it was a even fight that was fun for both of us and allowed me to enjoy a lot of adrenaline. Covering up the mans weak spot without giving the women some advantage in return also didn´t seem very fair to me at all, and I hate being unfair.
There are more options the just allow or forbid groin strikes. You can allow only specific attaks (front leg kicks because they are weaker then rear leg kicks or punches wich are generally weaker then kicks). Usually groin cups are designed to prevent your soft parts from taking the hit and if I wear mine I dont feel any groin pain, even with a strong kick. You could allow some padding to reduce the pain of such a hit to a reasonable level and reduce the risk of injury without completly taking groin strikes out of the equation. The problem is, as soon as you propose something like that face to face you´r most likely considered a weirdo and people might start spreading unpleasant storys. I might just take a look at the next Krav Maga club (I´ve never done this MA before). If there's a women nearby who wouldn´t mind using groin strikes in a sparring Krav should be the most likely place to find her.No. If you allow groin strikes against women and men, it wouldn’t change anything because you can also strike women in the groin. If you just allowed them against men, I still doubt it would change much. The physical differences are just too significant. Guys would win every time, and women would likely be left with life threatening injuries.
there would be a lot of badly injured women and everyone would be outraged. I agree this would result in some men getting badly hurt, but this would not be the norm, and would not cause much outrage
It can definitely balance each other but the fights would be shorter. One hit to the balls and it's over.
Anyone who knows anything about fighting know that would not be enough to fill the gap there is between women and men.
The ball hits are the worst and girls have a homing device for hitting the balls at any opportunity so the guys would lose.
LMAO girls would destroy guys
Yes, I love it, I wish girls kick my testicles 😍
yeah xd xd
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