Shins

[Kumori]

What are some ways I can condition my shins ?

As of right now , I am using this iron rod i have thats about a inch thick and ways around 2 lbs to roll up and down my shins and lightly tap them.

Are there any other ways I can condition them / Am I doing it right?

[yamesu]

I kick a heavy bag (60-80kg's) with my instep's and shin's daily, this helps to prepare the shins for hits to the muscles/skin, and helps to show oneself how the body reacts to a full force kick impact.

Just get a heavy bag and proceed to roundhouse kick.

This way you can kill to birds with one stone and practice your technique while strengthening your shins and feet.

Osu.

[CanuckMA]

You are doing the absolute worse that you can do. You will permanentaly damage your shin. Just use the heavy bag.

[Ben Martin]

or if you cant get access to a heavy bag u can put some sand in a bag then stil that inside a sock have enough sand so it fits the foot part of the sand then tie a knot in the ankle part and wrap the ankle bit ove the sock againwrap around 3 mor socks doing the same then 1 more sock but dont wrap the ankle bit over use tis as the handle and you have made yourself a mini sandbag.

[Ben Martin]

btw there is a good topic in the kickbozing section with all this info

[Aodhan]

What are some ways I can condition my shins ?

As of right now , I am using this iron rod i have thats about a inch thick and ways around 2 lbs to roll up and down my shins and lightly tap them.

Are there any other ways I can condition them / Am I doing it right?

Please, PLEASE tell me you are finished growing!!

Your bones have a covering called the periosteum, that thickens the bones as you grow. A hard enough impact will kill the periosteum in a small area, resulting in a "dent" in the bone.

You want the nerves in the skin to be used to impact, not the bone itself, so get a heavy bag or similar and whack your legs against that. The whole Van Damme kicking a tree thing is just movie fantasy.

Aodhan

[Kumori]

Yeah , I dont think I am done growing

Im 14 right now

[Aodhan]

Yeah , I dont think I am done growing

Im 14 right now

Don't be too sure. The only way you can know for sure at that age is to have an x-ray done of the epiphyseal plates at the ends of your bones. I grew about 7" over my first two years of college (Thank god!!), and I was 19/20ish at the time.

Aodhan

[Goju_boi]

my college bio teacher said that guys finnish growing at about 25 years old. I forgot about girls though.