What is the chemistry of mma fighting?

Question

Getting knocked out, choked out, bruises, cuts, nerve stuff, shin numbing, sweat, internal damage.

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by this question.

Like what chemistry is involved? I think you might mean what physiology maybe...

Each one of those things are specific things.

Getting knocked out:

Generally caused by a rapid acceleration of your head causing your brain to bounce around in your skull causing concussive trauma. Brain shuts consciousness down to focus on life sustaining functions.

Can also happen with a quick motion that interrupts the brain stem, (usually your flash k.o.s that you see when a fighter gets hit across the chin, rapid rotation of the neck it twists and affects the brain stem, instant unconsciousness. This is actually most knockouts you see in MMA. This is what happens when you "hit the button" ie. the chin.

Getting Choked out:

Simply cutting off the blood supply to the brain depriving it of oxygen. You can also choke someone out by preventing them from breathing via airway obstruction, or simply not allowing their chest to expand. Long story short, brain doesn't get as much oxygen as it needs to function, it shuts down consciousness and focuses on life sustaining functions.

Bruises:

Trauma to any layer of the epidermis (skin) or busted blood vessels. Basically any damage will cause some blood to form at the area of the injury. A bruise is simply blood raised to the upper layers of the skin.

Nerve stuff:

Regulated by the nervous system, consisting of the brain and it's functions, the spinal chord and a system of nerves. Uses electrical impulses in the form of ADP energy. Most nerve type damage generally comes with an injury to the neck, or even the joints in which the nerves go through.

If you mean nerve stuff as in pressure point, or nerve cluster manipulation, then there is a little bit of that in MMA, mostly as a means of causing uncomfortability and getting your opponent to move. Typically by pressing a pointed type appendage (elbow, knuckle, etc) on a pressure point (nerve cluster) it causes pain and uncomfortability. These are generally nerve centers where multiple nerve pathways join together. Pressing on them causes pain signals (basically your body's way of letting the brain know that something is wrong) to the brain, which causes them pain, etc.

Shin numbing:

By repeatedly striking with the shin, you develop a pain tolerance and also desensitize the nerves that run along your shin, allowing you to absorb more impact with less pain. You can also cause microfractures in your bones, that heal up and cause your bone to become denser. Your body can be trained for pretty much anything, it adapts. You swing a hammer long enough and often enough, you get better and better at it, your muscles get trained, you become more effecient, etc, etc. THis is an example of that, you nerves become less sensitive, your brain allows you to kick harder, and you have less pain.

Sweat:

Your body's cooling mechanism. When your body temperature rises it releases sweat from your sweat glands to evaporate and cause cooling on your skin, it also uses this process to release heat.

Internal Damage:

Less often seen in MMA in reality. But there is some trauma to the kidneys, and liver as they take shots. Generally it is nothing majorly harmful, as it just bruises the surface of the area. You may have blood in your urine, some aches. Generally very little internal organ damage is done, mainly because there isn't the high impact in MMA as there is other sports.

For example football where you have a 200lbs guy running full speed, getting nailed by a 250lbs guy running full speed the opposite way. Lots of energy generated there.

Since there isn't that high speed impact in MMA, most of the forces generated aren't usually enough to lacerate or cause major organ damage.

Hope that helps...

I mean one could go into a lot more depth about each and everyone of those things. There is some chemistry involved on the cellular level, but in most of the above listed things you are looking at physiological incidents.

Hope that is what you mean...

Answer 2

Amalgamation, strategy, adaptation, conditioning, maneuverability, positioning, leverage, and heart.