Does anyone here do a wheel kick with their shins like in Muay Thai? If so, how do you train your shins to take blows? I use the shoe string area mostly to kick and I don’t have a lot of confidence in my shins.
Any thoughts would be helpful
The shin is alot harder than the instep and capable of inflicting more damage. There have been several shin conditioning threads here and on the training forum - just do a search.
The “shoe string area” has many small and brittle bones that can fracture pretty easily. It would be better to condition the shins and consume an adequate amount of calcium, which would make it safer for your bones.
I do not find shin conditioning practical.
Former castleva, what do you mean?
If you want to kick with your shins, why shouldn’t you condition them? They’re pretty sensitive without conditioning.
This is not to be taken as ultimate truth.
I would not wish to kick with my shins that much,to kick a shin is a different deal (as noted,weak they are)
I understand the need of shin conditioning for a “serious martial artist” so to speak but I´m sticking with the “priorities”.
I´d think that the time to condition one´s shinbones (which may crush under pressure of a heavy kick) could be spent training something.If you do your kicking for good and possibly cross-train with walking/running or weightlifting (resistance is what we´re looking for) you simultaneously strengthen various areas (bone density increases)
I realize how ppl of the old days used to do all kinds of rigorous conditioning which might have been necessary to stay alive,some of the exercises going as far as conditioning the throat or hammering the chest for conditioning are some of the more scary and highly dangerous examples.
However,some of these legends may best be left alone.
Many vital areas cannot be conditioned wisely,and it is rather questionable if that is something to strive for.
One could condition his head (or try to) in order to not fracture it if push came to shove (alternatively,as in Chinese saying there was a man who was afraid that the sky would fall on his fragile head.However,the other guy reminded him that it is rather unlikely and he would better take his time being worried about something else) or if he would fall off the bike,fortunately we do have helmets for that.
If for shin´s sake,best try to do it carefully to save the nerves.
Well why couldn’t shin conditioning be part of one’s priorities? I mean, in my opinion, shin kicks are quite important and it’s not a big deal to condition them.
Yeah.I see.
You will eventually set your priorities and that´s a reasonable thing.
We’re all different.
Harmonious point. 
Folk science at it´s best.
I suppose I could post these too.
http://www.fightingarts.com/forums/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000035.html
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5131
If you condition your shins be carefull… If you go too far you could seriously screw the rest of your life up… your shins will get calcium on em and if you dont keep conditioning the turn too mush Thats not good:(
turn to mush?
I guess doing a load of roundhouse kicks with your shins to a heavy bag regularly is the easiest and most practical way of conditioning the shins and insteps. And maybe put shin pads on and practise shin blocks with a partner.
Originally posted by SevenStar
turn to mush?
Yea if you dont keep conditioning it will turn to mush and you cant walk!!!
Not good
i dont need any shin conditioning
if i need to kick in a fight, my boots are solid enough
Surfer, that’s a myth, like muscle “turning to fat.”
Doesn’t happen.
Nope Nope
My instructor does muay thai… He did it for 20 years, he stopped for awhile and now his calcium turned to mush!!! He told me…
Not good now he cant strech or walk right!!!
Edit:
Wait he broke his leg nevermind!!!:o
Originally posted by premier
I guess doing a load of roundhouse kicks with your shins to a heavy bag regularly is the easiest and most practical way of conditioning the shins and insteps. And maybe put shin pads on and practise shin blocks with a partner.
yeah, that’s also probably the safest way, and the way that I would reccomend.
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came to jamaica and held a seminar before the fights. he was introducing the american style kickboxing.
he said that he wasnt much of a fan of muay thai method because of the shin kicks. he said a considerable amount of thai fighters developed blodclots in thier legs and died later on in life due to shin kicks.
mind you this ,in my opinion ,might have been due to improper or non existent conditioning , i do not know for a fact.
I have never heard of people sustaining injuries on a significant scale and dying later on after thier retirement due to these blodclots.
Does anyone know enough on this to discuss.
I train Sanshou, the kickboxing rules are weird and they dont incooperate as much as sanshou offers. anyway just asking since this is about shins.
All the MT coaches I know with some age on them are going strong and then some.
I still believe it’s a myth. It makes no sense at all. Could also be genetics, disease or nutritional issues.