slapping yourself in the face

[Jab89]

i think that punching ursellf thing can help u alil actually, i do it when im driving and listening to a hardcore song lol...but if u wanA strengthin ur jaw chew gum constintly, i used to chew on my action figures when i was a kid and now my jaw is pretty toned haha.

[futurechampion]

sumtimes for my training i let opponent hit me and then knock em out

[JayCoe]

Getting hit, properly, like put in the post above may do a little because it is about getting to grips with what you're going to recieve. When Ali used to use his famed 'Rope a dope' style he would practice for hours by lying on the ropes getting hit. It wasn't about "perfecting the art of defence" which I don't doubt they did quickly, it was about getting him to grips with what he was going to recieve when he did it. As for slapping yourself, hitting yourself and so on, it will not do anything of real worth. It wont do anything physically, as in harden the bones, and it's doubtful it'll do anything psychologically to prepare you as a slap is not a full on hit. As for chewing gum, it would strengthen your jaw but so what? How will this help your boxing? Maybe every so often if you fight in a gay version of the red light district a boxer might drop his guard to admire you're toned jaw which allows for you to take him out, but other than this very very very unlikely occassion, it's of little worth.

I'll just put this in plain black and white, if you randomly hit yourself because you want to look cool, are listening to hardcore music or anything else, you're not cool, you don't look scary, you look ******. Was in the gym my oldest brother, his regular, it's a real "muscle gym", mostly based on weight machines and the majority of people who go are those big bald guys who usually have a big ass belly but can lift a **** load. So I was lifting some "weights" (I put the " because I guess they would have been kind of pathetic in comparison with what these strong men lift) and my brother slaps me and goes "come on!", the only thing it achieved was to make me laugh. If you're actually a fighter in your mind, if you're actually aggressive then such blatant acts of attempts to look hard are laughable.