They would be a good option for guys with brittle hands. Much less likely to break your hand throwing palm strikes. They're also good to use in those odd, in between, striking ranges because it can give you a couple of more inches to extend into the strike.
Palm strikes are useful when throwing hooking strikes to the ear, but not in many other circumstances. To have the presence of mind to alternate between palms and punches is near impossible. Usually it's either one or the other.
That makes a lot of sense. I was thinking it would be pretty easy to fuck your wrist up once you got a bit tired and your technique and accuracy started to suffer, but I've only done boxing and muay thai I've never even fucked around with palm strikes so I have no idea.
For sure they'd be a lot easier on the hands, that's true. I'm wondering though like I just mentioned above, if you fucked up and caught someone with the top of your palm instead of the bottom, it seems like you could really fuck your wrist up, especially if you managed to catch them on the top of the head.
