How to take a punch well?

[AlexKid]

ie you gonna get hit how do you limit the damage the punch causes?

Should you make you neck and head as stiff as possible and go WITH the power with your hips/body?

Or is a stiff neck etc a bad idea? I know being blind sided sucks because theres 0 stifness in your neck, but also noobs tend to go stiff and take more of the impact than they have to, should it be in the middle?

Hows it done and how does it the best?

[Syf]

You take a hit by having felt worst before.

When you see your own blood it's a gut check

When you feel worst than you ever have before that's where your mettle is truly challenged. It will either break you or set your expectational ceiling up higher for the next time. Some people can do as much neck ups as they want, if their mental ain't there, then a clean hard shot will fold them like origami.

If you can fade a shot do so, if not, brace. If you get caught clean with a hard shot without having faded or braced, then chalk it up to experience and draw upon your mental and intestinal fortitude to keep it together. Intangibles are very much so a factor in taking a hit. Intangibles that cannot be taught.

Show 'em what you're made of!

[Syf]

One more thing of course.... Balance. Keeping stance discipline will go a long way to making you more durable.

[Rockin']

you just eat it and then immediately bust him a couple back.

A good number of punches that you get hit by you might not have seen coming........

[AlexKid]

go with the punch as fast as u can to minimize the detonation on your head

[GTTofAK]

There is some physiology behind it but most of that you are just born with. Guys who are known for having iron chins like Chavallo or Vitali had think ass jaw muscles that they were just born with. Remove Vitali's think ass jaw muscles and you have his glass chinned brother.