Conditioning shins...

[Nick]

What's a good way and will doing so make me unable to walk by the time I'm forty?

Later...

[Thai Bri]

Many now say that kicking the bag and pads is enough. But I'm not so sure. That crunching bone on bone sure does hurt alot more.

[retired]

Yeah i should know!!!!!!!

http://www.defend.net/deluxeforums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7101&highlight=broken

[darrianation]

Kicking a good sturdy heavy bag will do the trick. It takes time but it works.

Also sparring, I take a lot of leg kicks while sparring and my partner and I both do a lot of leg shields/blocks. This means lots of shin to shin, knee to shin, and even elbow to shin. This happens often. All this will lend to tougher shins as well as other body parts.

[terry]

One note: You can condition your shins, but you cannot condition your patellar tendon.

[Cain]

couldn't khun kao or someone create a "howto condition shins" sticky topic? there is a lot of questions about it and many seem to lazy to use the search-function. So a Conditioning-how-to would be great! or.. that is imho

[Nick]

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I glanced over the pages and I couldn't find anything on it...

...well thanks for the info, anyway.

Later...

[Jamiefighter]

Just kick pads and the banana heavy bag on the lowest part (hardest part-where all the sand builds up). I would not recommend rolling bottles or hitting them with bamboo sticks, I used to do that and all it did was wear down my shins and did not necessarily harden them. In a thai fight, however, your adrenaline will be flowing so hard you will not feel the pain of clicking shins.

[Ghost]

Quote: "One note: You can condition your shins, but you cannot condition your patellar tendon."


Thats hilarious i like that a completely abstract coment.

I spend sooooo much time contemplating my petallar tendon

[retired]

Jamiefighter
Quote "In a thai fight, however, your adrenaline will be flowing so hard you will not feel the pain of clicking shins".

Yeah right.......what about when you've kicked someone so hard & your commited to the kick that in the last moment the opponents body twists & your shin connects with their hip bone.

The result: After impact the Fibia & Tibular Bend & snap in two like sticks.....But wait it's not over YET.....the kick with so much momentum carries on after this & wraps past the persons waist.........then when the force is exhausted the foot stops it's enjoyable journey & the brain (not knowing about this yet due to adrenaline) tells the leg to return back to it's starting position........& then STAND on it.......the broken pieces now useless pass by each other on their new journey into parts of the leg not seen before......then when the body collapses under the now weak stance CRASHES backwards onto the canvas comfortablly landing on the bum (how lucky).......seconds (seems like minutes) pass before people realise why your holding up your foot by the big toe as you release it in the confusion only to see the foot fall to the side in a fashion not even seen by the greatest of yoga masters......THEN it clicks in your brain OHHHH F*****K something is slightlly wrong here......& someone thankfully throws the towel (not in the ring dummy!!!) over your head........deep breaths later & you decide in the comotion to PHONE your misses (yes people were shocked) to tell her you wont be coming home tonight & may not be home (being 2hrs drive away) for a while.

Anyway if your interested it hurt a bit in the ambulance & they gave me gas while pulling leg into traction (strange trip) & called out many names i never knew.....Broke on saturday nite, operated on Sunday morning, stood on crutches Monday morning......Medical Wonders.....I was impressed.

3 mnths later i was back in the gym!!!!

http://www.defend.net/deluxeforums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7101&highlight=broken

[terry]

Originally posted by Ghost
Quote: "One note: You can condition your shins, but you cannot condition your patellar tendon."

Thats hilarious i like that a completely abstract coment.

I spend sooooo much time contemplating my petallar tendon

That was a statement drawn from experience, not an abstract statement. If you catch a hard thai kick in the patellar tendon it sucks. Your patella will be probably be dislocated, and re-setting that is VERY painful.

[JP Prideaux]

Originally posted by retired

Yeah right.......what about when you've kicked someone so hard & your commited to the kick that in the last moment the opponents body twists & your shin connects with their hip bone.

The result: After impact the Fibia & Tibular Bend & snap in two like sticks.....But wait it's not over YET.....the kick with so much momentum carries on after this & wraps past the persons waist.........then when the force is exhausted the foot stops it's enjoyable journey & the brain (not knowing about this yet due to adrenaline) tells the leg to return back to it's starting position........& then STAND on it.......the broken pieces now useless pass by each other on their new journey into parts of the leg not seen before......then when the body collapses under the now weak stance CRASHES backwards onto the canvas comfortablly landing on the bum (how lucky).......seconds (seems like minutes) pass before people realise why your holding up your foot by the big toe as you release it in the confusion only to see the foot fall to the side in a fashion not even seen by the greatest of yoga masters......THEN it clicks in your brain OHHHH F*****K something is slightlly wrong here......& someone thankfully throws the towel (not in the ring dummy!!!) over your head........deep breaths later & you decide in the comotion to PHONE your misses (yes people were shocked) to tell her you wont be coming home tonight & may not be home (being 2hrs drive away) for a while.

Thanks, mate. Once again I wont be able to have a good nights sleep after reading that

[Khun Kao]

So how would we go about having a "sticky" created?

I'm down for it. We could create a sticky post with a few of the most common (but different) methods of shin conditioning, as well as the philosophy behind training that way...

Khun Kao

[Ghost]

Yeah alright Terry

[Cain]

well, i think one of the mods have to set it sticky, if I'm not very wrong.. btw, personally i dislike elbows.. just where the shin ends and is turning into a foot.. (i don't know the english word.. ) that hurts..