Herb Dean head strikes rules video

    by Hars: Herb Dean

    herb dean put out a vid explaining the rules on back-of-head strikes

    Transcript (en)

    The White House card was amazing. I can't imagine a way it could have been better. I could tell by some of the comments online that I owe you guys an explanation about the rules and how I refereed the fight. First of all, all respect to both fighters. I'm talking about Gan and Paheya. Amazing fight. Okay, so let's get into it with this rule. Okay, the rule we're talking about is the back of the head, and that's confusing because It's different than boxing, and the way we enforce this rule is we focus on the nape of the neck, and that's really what the rule should be called. The nape of the neck or occipital junction also covers the spine, and it covers a line right here with one inch variance to either side, so right here. So this is what we'd go over in a rules meeting. I would let them know that this area is a foul, off limits, that this area is a fair blow. here is a fair blow turn to the sides we can see it here here is a fair blow here is a foul hopefully that's useful to you guys and clear things up at all also I'm going to make another video about telling the story about the history of this rule and how it was made and I think that might explain why this is here because I think that's more there for politics but I think it is an interesting story so