Shin problem or not?

[EvilGun]

Well i've been training in muay thai for about 3 weeks now, at least three time a week and then i do a lot of work at home and where every i can find a bag. Well last week during my class the instructor wanted me to kick the bannana bag so i did, he said no harder, so i did! He walked away and i keep kicking i didn't have any shin pads at the time which was my first mistake. I started to feel some pain that was not like any thing i've felt in the past couple of weeks, need-less-to say i have a hard bruise/"i don't know what" on my left shin now, my right leg (the dominant) is fine but i'm affraid my left is not. The burise color has went away but there is a bump there now, my leg has no pain in it at all, until the slightest, and i do me slightest tap which then causes a pain that feels, kind of like, having your skin torn, like a very intense burning. any comments what should i do?

thanks for any help

[eXcessiveForce]

sounds like a bone bruise, Those take awhile to heal. Depending on how bad it is it can even take a couple months if you keep taping it. It you are really concerned though go to your doctor.

[dbok1]

To be honest bud.....if your serious about training in Muay Thai, don't ever wear a shin pad when kicking a bag or pads period! If you have been training for 3 weeks and this is the first time you've kicked a bag without shin pads, then this is NORMAL. It's even NORMAL when training for weeks, months, years!

Personally, I think your fine.....I have seen worst on myself when I first started (15yrs ago) and to this very day I still get bruises, but no pain. My sugguestion to you is only train when at class and never at home or "anywhere you find a bag". Give it time to feel, maybe even find some good linamet to rub on it, it will help.

Good luck bud!

[Damian Mavis]

Ya stuff like that happens all the time, until it heals you simply only kick with the uninjured leg, and then when that gets injured you don't kick at all and only work on boxing, knees and elbows... and when those get injured you can practice tearing peoples throats out with your teeth.


Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[EvilGun]

See that is the strange thing i haven't use shin pads yet, the only thing i did different is kick the bananna bag instead of the ones i usually kick. My instructor told me to through low kicks, and you know how hard that area of the bag can be, well at least you could imagine how hard it would be if you had never kicked that area before. I really wasn't comfortable with doing it but what was i supposed to say? NO sir! he would have jumped my sh!t!! what has been your method for training shins? do you roll bottles up and down them and all that? and what does the linamet do?

thanks again for your help.

jeremy

[dbok1]

DO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT roll any bottles or anything else on your shins!!!!!!!

Listen- I posted on this topic before but I'll say it again...there is NO EASY way. The only way to condition your shins is to keep kicking. Just Kick, and Kick and Kick.....it will take Months if not Years for your shins to develop hard, everyone is different. The linament will help heal your shins, what I recommend is after each training rub your shins with linament in a messaging matter, rub it in real good, it will help!

Ps. If they start to hurt, then stop.....let them heal and then continue.

[EvilGun]

[QUOTE=dbok1]DO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT roll any bottles or anything else on your shins!!!!!!!
Don't worry, I didn't plan on it. I was just curious, the rolling of objects on shins seems rediculous yet so many people swear by it. We're given nerves for a reason trying to completely deaden them isn't healthy.

thanks agian man

jeremy

[yeung]

i second that! i absolutely agree with dbok. rolling bottles or anything else will damage the shins even more than making it harder. i have been to thailand and i never seen a thai would do that. they only would kick banana trees everyday and apply thai medicines to it and rest. keep doing it and then the shins will be hard.

[Karate_is_cool]

yeah people keep ranting on about rolling your shins. does it even do anything? what exactly DOES it do? oh and by the way what is linament??

banana trees? those crazy fucks lol

[silapathai]

rolling bottles...

I thought it was ok to roll bottles on your shins for the first few months as long as you only rolled/rubbed it downwards and not upwards. The reason being that rolling/pushing/rubbint it upwards can develop "balls" of calcium deposits. A doctor once told me that all this does is flatten out your shin from the natural "honeycomb" formation it's allready in. This doesn't "deaden" your nerve endings, only makes your shin harder. I would like to hear/see why if done properly the rolling of shins is bad. The first 3-4 months I was in Muay Thai I used a old large coke bottle and thai liniment about 15 minutes 5 imes a week and never had any serious problems. The only difference I noticed from me and others that trained as long as I did is that my shins were more rock hard.
I didn't start Muay Thai under a traditional Thai instructor so I'm sure you're right about the Thais never doing this form of training since I never saw it done when I stayed in Thai camps. I wonder if this comes from the kyokushinkai/bare knuckle karate kind of training originally.

[Phestus]

Ive had one of these bumps on my leg for about 6-7 weeks now, long after the bruise itself healed.

It will get better. After 4 or 5 weeks the intense burning sensation when it is lightly touched is gone unless something rubs it funny, but the bone bump is still there.

Incidentally, I got mine kicking into a destruction at about half speed. I am probably lucky I didnt break it. Anyone know where to get any of that liniment online?

[thaibxr]

shin bones

I have only been training for four years but I have had lots of bumps and bruises but they will go away.As for padding we do not train with any protection exept gloves when we fight in the club.As for rolling your shins thats the way I was tought my shins are fine and painless at the same time.