how much pain can you take?

[migo]

I've found my pain threshold is inversely proportional to how well I know my opponent can fight. If I know they can kick my ass easily I can't handle the pain all that well, if I know I can win I can ignore pretty much anything and do my thing. I guess I compare the pain to the likelihood of additional injury, and the greater the likelihood in the shorter time, the more I react to the pain.

[Garland]

I can't get off without pain...and it keeps getting worse.
Now days, I need the girl to tie my jaded nuts around the door knob of an open door and slam it shut for me to get anything out of a sexual encounter.



















Not really...but it makes for an interesting mental image huh? SNAP!

[7r14ngL3Ch0k3]

I know what im about about to talk about is not real fighting but just bare with me. Last night i was at my friends house and his older brother and his friends were there. I was pretty bored so I asked anyone if they wanted to wrestle with no pins and the loser is the first to tap out. So one of my friend's brother's friend accepted. I weigh 130, and the guy I was about to wrestle weighed about 145. So no big deal, accept for the fact that he had wrestled all four years of highschool. We head to the backyard, shake hands, and I immediatly shoot for a single, and he cradles me to my back and keeps alot of pressure on me. But we're going for tapouts not pins. While struggling out of his cradle and getting into guard(where I was most of the time until the end), others watching realize that im bleeding heavily out of my nose, and at this point I use everthing I got...still rolling around...I have control of his head for my guard and hes still trying to cradle and choke me...We ended up on our sides and thats when I rolled into mount... He tried rolling me through and he exposed his back. I immediatly showed no mercy with a RNC because of all the pain and bleeding he put me through. I used so much strength in the RNC and tapped so fast...I still held it and then came another wave of taps and I realeased. When we rose to our feet, the neck area of his shirt had so much blood stains. But because i pretty much got my butt kicked through out the whole match, it just made me want to win even harder. Many people were suprised at how the tables turned in the end, and i was definetly dissapointed in how I bled and how I didnt get takedown and the mount which I usually do when I wrestle or grapple people out of school...But this was sort of a reality check.

[slayer31]

controlled pain is different from outside pain... someone making you eat a knuckle sandwich doesnt hurt as much as something much lighter done to yourself in my experience. im sure it varies though.

[kanik]

My pain threshold used to be pretty high, recently its been turning to crap, my frienmd kicked me in the neck a couple times while sparring which made me quit. Shameful!! He didnt kick too hard, hard enough. But i should have, and next time will, keep going. I guess the best way to increase ones pain threshold would be to keep going, and keep going while sparring, training, fighting or doing whatever.

[Tom Yum]

Pat Smith, K-1 contender and Sabaki Challenge fighter said in his UFC 1 prefight interview that he "loves pain!"

Ken Shamrock, proceeded to take him to the mat and pull an ankle lock on him. He had quite an expression of pain on his face, tried to elbow Shamrock's shin and muscle his way out...but Shamrock never let go.

Morale of the story - we're not good at gauging how much pain we can go through until we actually go through it