How to train yourself for taking the hits to the shins?

[40 cent]

hey cloud dragon whats a escrima stick dude?

[ramymensa]

I've read somewhere about another exercise for conditioning the shins. take something like a broom stick (the idea is to be rigid) and roll it on the shins, like when making cakes Some say it works. Just up and down on every shin.

[TheDevilAside]

I've read somewhere about another exercise for conditioning the shins. take something like a broom stick (the idea is to be rigid) and roll it on the shins, like when making cakes Some say it works. Just up and down on every shin.

 

That actually does work, but I'd say the best way to 'condition' yourself for pain is to just learn how to ignore it. Try this, whenever you get hurt, if you cut your thumb, you fall and scrape open your knee (I miss those injuries, that hasn't happened to me since I was 10) or whatever, try just ignoring the pain, almost as if nothing had happened. Eventually, you will have conditioned yourself mentally instead of just physically, and you still feel the pain, but you will be able to remain focused. Keep on practicing in your dojo, after about a year, you'll become accostumed to taking hits almost anywhere. (I say almost because I still can't take hits to the groin and I don't really think any male here wants to 'condition' that area with an escrima stick or broom.)

Once you get some adrenaline running around you, you won't even feel your shins

 

...yeap, that's 100% true.

 

 

hey cloud dragon whats a escrima stick dude?

 

Sorry, I know that question isn't directed at me, but I might as well answer it if I can, right? Escrima is a filippino martial art. Escrima sticks are 2 ft. long, wooden (apx. a little less than 2 ft.) sticks that escrima practicioners use as their weapon. That's a pretty simple description.

[Dijita]

Well, I did 6 fights yesterday with my classmates as a part of testing. First time I really did some contact fighting without the blockers. I kicked someone shin on shin, and you know what? Adrenaline rules! I mean I felt it, and had that slight thought that it's going to hurt later, but it didn't really hurt that bad. After I got home though, my shin had swollen so much, but I just iced it up and it doesn't really hurt now unless you touch it.

 

Anyways, I have my first tournement this Saturday (Mar 20). It's just a small tournement but I'm looking forward to it, I think I'll do alright.

 

Wish me luck!

[SevenStar]

Once you get some adrenaline running around you, you won't even feel your shins

 

I don't know about 'desensitising' your shins. If you are blocking someone's foot with your shin, it shouldn't hurt too much.

muay thai and kyokushin (at least, the kyokushin guys that I've seen) thorw a roundhouse with their shin, not the instep.

[SevenStar]

If you have access to a heavy bag, kick it after everyclass, for at least 50 reps or so. your shins will get tougher.

[Mc. Steve]

In a light contact competition, you should use your instep, becuase you get foot pads, but you should keep in mind that if you kick full power with your instep, you stand a good change of breaking your ankle. Bag train with roundhouses using your shins. Then when you get in a fight you can kick people in the leg and take em down. Wheey

[cross]

I do the same as some of the other guys said: kick the heavy bag with your shin, and if you get the bag at the right height you can swing it so it comes in at your leg and you can practice shin blocks, i know its not the same as blocking a leg coming at you but it works your shin.

[yamesu]

Ok, this is how we do it at my Kyokushin dojo.

 

one step sparring;

 

attacker = gedan mawashi

 

defender = sune uke

 

repeat a million times......................

 

this gets your shins hard pretty quick. (you should notice the difference after one session, although id reccomend resting the conditioned area for 2-3 days afterwards.) Also when drilling be sure to move your leg back to the ground AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE, sooo many people leave their leg wavering in the air for a second, giving time for a quick gedan-geri to the weight bearing leg.

 

kick a heavy bag (mawashi) for 5-10 min straight connecting with only your shins, make sure your technique is correct though, as havin your knee angled wrong can cause bone-structure damage if you impact too hard.

 

Just ask your sensei if your tech is proper.

 

Other than that I sit in Seiza, (ahh, almighty seiza,) for 10min a day, and that seems to help with strenghthening ny shins and instep. (sometimes they go numb.....hehehe)

 

With Sune Uke it is my understanding that the block(check?) is done with the muscle on the outside of the shin, not the bone itself, but shin-to-shin contact is inevitable in Kyokushin Kumite.

 

Just wear the thin pads that cover your shin and instep untill your confident enough to go bare styles.

 

OSU.

 

BTW, the Kyokushin Full-contact Australian titles were on yesterday, it was AWSOME, there was a heap'o blood and everything. Some wicked fighters as well.

 

Good luck to the Auzzi Kyokushin team thats going to compete in Japan in late 2004.

[Dijita]

BTW, the Kyokushin Full-contact Australian titles were on yesterday, it was AWSOME, there was a heap'o blood and everything. Some wicked fighters as well.

 

Good luck to the Auzzi Kyokushin team thats going to compete in Japan in late 2004.

 

I would have loved to have watched!!

 

Osu!