You can bob and weave. That way, you avoid it entirely, and reappear on an edge; a perfect place to strike.
You can indirectly block. You put your arm, and put it underneath their hand, and push their hand up. That way, their arm soars above your head, and you are untouched. Now, you have a nice punch chance right to their ribs. If you make it a quality punch, they will feel pain. Not broken ribs, but it'll tire them out.
You can directly block. You use your gloves to soften the blow, and sacrifice the cushioned blow for a quality punch to the face with your other hand. (On an unrelated note, do NOT use this in any bare-knuckle street fight (for example, some psycho attacked you). Your wrist will hurt like hell, and, as you say, your forearm will be destroyed.)
You can back up. Just straight-up retreat and get out of there. The other guy can do a lot of moves, and doing the correct corresponding move can be fatal if you mess up. When in doubt, don't!
You can dive right in. You punch their punching arm's bicep, and take away their ability to punch you, by directly punching the weak bicep part of the arm. Now, with your already-moving body weight, use that to straight punch them right in the nose.
Some basic moves off of the top of my head.
It is the easiest punch to catch just always have your glove on the side of your face unless you are using it to parry jabs or you are throwing it. Parry a hook? I would love for some fool to attempt to parry a Tommy Morrison or Tyson left hook.
It all really just comes down to your stance and if your looking for a direct block you parry it or you could easily just dodge.
Depends....Pull back head and run away, duck down to the inside, swirve and counter, block, or take it?
I'm 6'. Sometimes 5'11 is what I'm measured at.
I always end up fighting someone I have to look up or down at.
The tall guys, their hooks look like downward straights. They throw them usually while they are flurrying, charging or I am currently blocking something. So I NEVER see their joints or hips or anything. I can't tell when they telegraph those suckers and it's like the only thing I'm stuck with and therefore I end up wondering about it during sparring.
Which causes me to pause and I'm thinking "what in the Blankity blank do I have to do to freaking put something in the way of his arm to get it to deflect or counter it?
The hooks usually have no power (from tall guys to me, because it's done at that stunned time, it's more of a way to open up my arms because I am very worried about blocking so I block and, I block like it's my taxes and if I don't I will owe...so forget that I am gonna do it).
Now with short people.
They do these things called Shovel Hooks. Where it's not projected out or chicken winged or anything. Like first they go into the squatty uppercut stance, hips all pointed out and everything. Then turn it into a jab, so it changes the arc of the elbow.
Then as it's going up from the diaphragm (fist at diaphragm level), it's more straightened out, they turn it into something that looks like a haymaker, by making a completely straight arm and locking up with their shoulder.
All this crazy short person non-sense ends up having their arm do an S shape, but where the two first knuckles are lined up with the elbow and the shoulder.
Then they connect the elbow the their chest, to like destroy any chance of looking for a hook by a curved arm.
Then like, they some how manage to take this attached elbow, S shaped arm. Then like, leap up, KID (from punch out) style, while having their hips, push their arm as they twist.
So the shoulder, the hip, the arm, the locked shape and the knuckles all have this extra power.
So, How are you supposed to, block a hook. Deflect a hook and counter a hook?
Block would be, to me, to smack the arm out of the way or connect the glove to the strike.
Deflect would be to just get something in the way fast enough to stop it. And it would bounce off or something.
Counter would be, to make contact and draw the arm in to lead it in the same motion they did the strike.
And I'm not asking about the incorrect, forearm destroying blocks. Blocks.... Put the arm in the direct path of the strike like it's a nail being shot out of a nail gun and be glad your arm is throbbing and not your temple. Like that poor guy at the end of Evil Dead.... "AHHH AHHH NOOO THE NAIL GUN AHHH!! OW! ....OMG AHHH!!!!" .
No. I know how to do that already.
The blocks where you can connect easily to a counter.
