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Originally Posted by ESi
Not if you kick bamboo like van damme does.
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Actually, you're not far from the truth. I used to fight, now I coach a team. When I start working with kids on stand up (kick boxing) I tell them buy a 1/2 inch wooden dowel at the hardware store. Three times per week, spend thiry minutes smacking each shin. Start lightly, and, over the course of a couple of months, smack harder and harder. It builds scar tissue and calcifies the shins so that kicks don't hurt nearly as much.
For the first year, there's nothing you can do about it...get used to your shins being sore.
My guys mostly complain about (if you can believe it)...matt burns on the top of their feet from single and double legs being executed without wrestling shoes on. Our ground training mixes BJJ and wrestling in the same session (sometimes)...so they get matt burns.