taekwondoguys

In Muay Thai, I'm just curious how in the world you all develop your shin's to be so strong? In all seriousness, how many boards can yall break with your shin? Not foot but shin? Same thing for elbows. Jim.

Spookey

Dear Sir,

Keep in mind that the bones of the body are sized based on their functional necessity first and formost. However, it has been proven that impact strengthens bones. Your heel is the hardest "bone" because it receives to most impact (do to walking). If you impact any striking tool (shin, elbow, knucles, ect.) with repetition that tool will strengthen. Also, repetitive triggering of the nerves in that area makes them less sensitive, or better yet you become less sensitive to them.
Please bare in mind that you should use caution while impacting any striking tool. Be careful not to injure yourself and also work up to things!
A few suggestions! As with knuckles, start with something firm yet cussioned like kicking pads or a heavy bag. Also, introduce more power as you go (not all out at once). Furthermore, as related to nerve conditioning take an object such as a short (light weight) portion of broom handle and repetitively tap it along your shin. Many recommend pushing a pop bottle held horizontaly up and down the shin causing friction! I belive this too could prove beneficial for the introduction and stimulation of the local nerves.
Finally, start slow, dont injure yourself, and remember how at some point in time (say for instance during sparring) it hurt to get hit, but eventually, the more you got hit the more hit you could take! Same principle applies!

TAEKWON!

adacas

always remember when two objects come into contact with eachother the softer substance will wear away first. take care.

__________________
Estalilla Kabaroan

gregimotis

Heavy bag and thai pads. No board breaking

__________________
.
.
I am Tired. Tired. Tired.

dbok1

There is no easy way or shall I say fast way of conditioning shins. It takes years of kicking (the right way) in order to develop "harden" shins. Without getting into the phyic's of the body, to keep it plain and simple....Just kick! Kick heavy bags, thai pads 3-4 days a week of constent training is the only way!

Also taking care of your shins is really important, good rub downs and linaments will help heal.

Best way to know if your doing it right......if your entire shin is not black and blue or all "torn" up after each practice (especially for newbie's) your doing it WRONG!

__________________
David Bokman
Senior Instru. Under "Sakasem"
Body Arts Gym
Muay Thai & MMA
www.bodyartsgym.com
Philadelphia, PA

Damian Mavis

Taekwondoguy, they don't break boards in Muay Thai ya nitwit, in fact they don't break boards in most arts. Try not to make TKD'ists look bad by asking "special Ed" questions ok?

I know of muay thai fighters that have broken through 4 baseball bats tied together. Try to compare that to the amount of boards if you must.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

adacas

your right they don't break boards...they break legs!

__________________
Estalilla Kabaroan

freshiro

haha i think it was in kickboxer or some other movie where a guy was warming up by slamming his shins into cement pillars in a building. just kickin the sh*t out of the things. haha

Rudolphuss

I think it was a metallic pillar because everytime the dude kicked it, there was a "gong" sound.