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Head butts are effective. Do you remember when you were a child playing with other children on the playground and you accidentally bumped heads with another child? Probably one of you starting crying while the other stood there confused, with little or no pain. One head struck the other in a snapping motion. The head that did the snapping had little pain, the other head had excruciating pain.

The face has a lot of fragile bones, teeth, cartilage, etc. while the skull is one big bone. The face usually comes out with the worst injury in a collision with the skull, but that does not mean the skull is immune from injury. Sometimes, after a collision, there are teeth imbedded in the top of the offending skull.

Many instructors say you should head butt using the front of the forehead near the hairline, since the bone is thicker in this area. However, if you look at the bone thickness of the skull (you see it is as thick, if not thicker, on the sides as it is in the front or back.

The skull is not round, it is more of an oval, similar to an egg: narrower from side-to-side than from front-to-back. Anyone familiar with stunts and tricks performed using an egg knows that an egg is much stronger when force is applied to it on the ends than it is from the sides. This is a characteristic of an oval object. Thus, the skull is stronger when force is applied from the front or back than it is when force is applied from the sides. The neck muscles that move the head forward and backward are much stronger than the muscles used to move the head from side to side. This means a forward or backward head but is much more powerful than one using the side of the head.

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