Donkey

I'm going through the same thing so I asked my Muy Thai master (at the time he was kicking an Iron post with his shins, no lie). He said it always hurts (this after 30yrs boy to man). He also said that u learn to ignore the pain and also that u don't usually feel the pain during a fight ( u shure as heck feel it after the fight). But most importantly don't train to get hit, train to attack and win. Don't try to condition parts of your body to take punishment, condition your body to fight (heavy bag, thai pads and lot s and lots of sparring and I do mean full contact and light).

Listen in the end you have to go full contact. Of corse this depends on what level your at and what style u take. In traditional muy thai schools they recruit the kids at 9 or ten and they usually fight (full contact) a week after they've started. Then they start to learn at the schools. I see a lot of BJJ fighters who are 20yrs old out of Brazil with over a 100 victories so they've been fighting since young. Both of these types of fighters in their respective styles usually wipe the floor with anyone else because if it's not full contact it's not real and tne rest is just theories

Looking for a grappling school; and how to tell the real from the fake? BJJ or MMA : I got a choice of two schools where I live one is listed as a Brazilial Jiu Jitsu and the other is a hardcore fighters stable where they beat the crap out of each other on a daily basis. I also compete in muy thai and am not sure I can afford the injuries from the stable. How do u know if a BJJ school is genuine?