how do people head butt people without hurting themselves too?
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my go to move in teenage fights was to buckle arms with the other person and headbutt repeatedly. The way to avoid getting hurt yourself is to be aware of the other person’s incoming headbutt timing and move out of the way. If you are the one grappling and pulling them in, you are controlling the distance and can selectively let them pull away a little or pull them back in close. So what I’d do is when I’d see them start coming forward, I’d pull back with head and torso and avoid the blow, then pull them close when I’d come back in to headbutt myself. There’s a natural rhythm to it if you’ve been in enough fights.
1st headbutt: they find out what you’re doing.
2nd headbutt: they realize this is going to be ongoing and will have to fight back with headbutts since you’ve wrapped your arms under theirs.
3rd headbutt: When they come in to match your timing you sway back and avoid the majority of the blow. You start your headbutt just a little bit after they start theirs and their head is forward and stopped when you crash into it.
4th headbutt: They’re a little dizzy and reluctant to headbutt now, they aren’t able to coordinate and go full force into it. Because your headbutt is much stronger they are like the car that lost the car crash.
5th headbutt +: At this point, they are desperate to get away and stop the fight because they can’t collect themselves while you are landing headblows. The 5th headbutt basically finishes them off, and if you keep going past that it goes from “this may do permanent damage” to “this is definitely doing permanent damage, the only question is how much permanent damage am I willing to dish out and accept myself from repeated blows to the head?” I can’t think of a time I ever kept going after 5 for that reason, but I’ve had… maybe half a dozen fights like that when I was young so I’m pretty confident in the technique.
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