Palm-strike detractors like to point out that fingers are vulnerable to fracture because they stick out when making contact. This definitely can happen, but no one I know personally who has used palms — including Bas Rutten — has ever fractured a finger in barehanded combat.
This doesn’t mean it has never happened or can’t happen; I just don’t know of anyone it’s happened to. In all my full-contact, all-out, barehanded fights in training and real life, I’ve never hurt my hands. Likewise, none of my training partners or students has,
