conditioning shins?

[bleek124]

what is the best way to condition your shins?

[Titan]

Kicking the heavy bag a hundred times a day. You should never kick anything that's harder than your shins or like roll a coke-bottle along the shins.

[( o Y o )]

I went to a Seido dojo in Osaka just before Dynamite and they had this cool thing with a kind of bag hung horizontally full of.....what it was I don`t know but it felt like sand though significantly heavier. It was used specifically for stengthening the shin.

[Newtieg]

Kicking the heavy bag a hundred times a day. You should never kick anything that's harder than your shins or like roll a coke-bottle along the shins.

Why is rolling coke bottles along the shin bad?

[Titan]

Why is rolling coke bottles along the shin bad?
Cause it's a bit pointless. Your shins aren't getting stronger by rolling heavy objects on it, and you won't get stronger shins by kicking the bag and by general conditioning. The bone is what it is.

Conditioning is about damaging the nerves in the area. That's why you kick something less sense than the shin-bone -- otherwise you damage the bone -- but hard enough to desensitize the nerves.

Kicking to damage nerves is a safer way to condition your shins because it's no potential bone-damage due to it. As a result, your bone never gets harder but you can tolerate more pain cause you feel less.

NOTE:

Some people run out and kick trees, knowing that back in the days, fighters would kick banana trees. Banana trees are soft and like rubber. :-)

[GarouMAX]

Kicking the bag/pads over and over again.

I'd also like to add that even the most experienced of fighters still feel some pain when blocking a low kick directly with their shin, no matter how many years they have been kicking the bag. You just learn to deal with it after awhile.

[bleek124]

thanx for the info. much appreciated. i told that to this kid in my jui jitsu class and he was telling me that at some seminar he was at the instructor was saying to condition the shins by banging them with someone elses shins, i told him what you guys said . it seemed like he didnt want to listen.

[unicorn]

It's not only damaging nerves :) (hehe, I listen again how it sounds : damaging nerves)

It's also about breaking small vessels - like capillaries and small veins - until the scar tissue is forming a sort of padding around the sensitive areas. Then the circulation in the area becomes scarcer and it doesn't cause too much bruising.

It has a two-edged side = once you hurt the area too much, it becomes easy to tear around the big scars, and hitting objects which are too hard and have no elasticity can also cause small cracks in the bone, which leads to risk of having the shin broken. Mind you, the bone in itself is insensitive, what hurts is the periosteum (= connective tissue at the immediate surface of the bone), so you might really hurt yourself bad before knowing. Most of the shin breaks of those horrendous clips (the guy who fought Van Damms, then Pettas against Gur) are actually injuries which were liminal before the match without those guys being aware, which got ruptured at full extent whilst receiving a pretty regular bang.

Also, hitting objects which are too hard can cause too large clots by bruising excessively, and traumas of the periosteum turning into bony lumps which hurt like hell when hit again.

Just take your time, patience worths millions :)