Tweetthis is why in Thailand they start out kicking a tree all day day after day until it's numb and hard then they start getting trained

Tweetno pain no gain!!! I agree hurts like a son of a *****!

TweetFrom what I understand it will simply hurt until the nerves are so damaged you can't feel the pain anymore.
then the skin and tissue become very scarred and hard.

After that - you should be OK.

Good luck. I don't think I could do it.


Sal

TweetIVE READ THIS,Do NOT hit or rub your shins with any hard item! These can cause small cracks in the shin and can cause them to break along those lines if you kick hard. Best thing to do is to hit thai pads or a lightly padded heavy bag, My kick boxing trainer says he used a hard type wooden stick and rubbed up and down his shins until the nerve just went dead,took years but it happen.personaly jipped if your up there in age then why suffer. unless if your going to compete then yeah go for it but for us older guys I wont be kicking a tree any time soon. My body aches after 1 hour clas to begin with. theres a Heavybag specifically designed for Shin hardening

TweetDo you not use shin pads? The shin pads are supposed to protect the bone and condition the shin at the same time. Our teacher never used to let us participate without the guards.

Tweetwhen I was over there, I saw these guys w a coke bottle taped to a broken golf club handle. They would just tap the shin bone at first. then progress up to harder whacks and finally work on trees and posts. The bone starts to form ladder like structures along the stressed areas. There were guys kicking the crap outta palm trees. Same guys punching trees and post too. They start by punching into a bin of rice, then course sand, then small gravel...progressive resistance training!
These guys are the reason I got my ass on a plane and came home.
Mui Thai is not for those afraid of commitment. You have to be willing to break and crack bones to earn the fists of stone...
I was just not one of those guys!

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Originally Posted by tn94z

Do you not use shin pads? The shin pads are supposed to protect the bone and condition the shin at the same time. Our teacher never used to let us participate without the guards.

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been using pads for a long time but i do intend going to some local competitions with my class mates. my coach says i need to train the shins or the pain the first time without pads in competition will cause me to disengage and turn my leg so it dosnt hit the same spot. he says you can wreck a knee doing that.

nigbo told me to use a rolling pin and lubricant and roll it out once a day.

trained sunday, my legs look like they are from a corpse. i tool the day off today to let them rest and ice them. knees feel fine. thighs and shins are ruined.

maybe i am too old for this. very disheartening for me as i love doing it and want to keep up with the young guys. my wife thinks i should just stick to BJJ only

Tweetwhen we get into our 40's jipped its sometimes better to save our body then to beat it up and do a martial arts thats not as physical on us.doing and learning the motions and hitting the pads and stuff is all good but to start competing at a older age sometimes we cant. I understand that we want to compete but it comes a time to say we cant do that much. unless a person is natural gifted and has the ability to do all that stuff and he doesnt hurt,but the majority of us are normal guys. I spar at half speed we dont go full contact kick ass bust ya in the mouth but we do get hit and kicked

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Originally Posted by jipped genes

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been using pads for a long time but i do intend going to some local competitions with my class mates. my coach says i need to train the shins or the pain the first time without pads in competition will cause me to disengage and turn my leg so it dosnt hit the same spot. he says you can wreck a knee doing that.

nigbo told me to use a rolling pin and lubricant and roll it out once a day.

trained sunday, my legs look like they are from a corpse. i tool the day off today to let them rest and ice them. knees feel fine. thighs and shins are ruined.

maybe i am too old for this. very disheartening for me as i love doing it and want to keep up with the young guys. my wife thinks i should just stick to BJJ only

Okay, I see. If you are not wanting to really get into competition, maybe BJJ alone is that bad of an idea. I used to love doing it too, but I just wanted to learn the art and not compete in Muay Thai. You could just focus all of you time and attention on BJJ and compete there.

TweetI THINK THIS IS THE BRIDGE MOST OF US ARE AT...WE ARE GETTING UP IN AGE SO THAT OUR BODIES ARENT LETTING US DO WHAT WE THINK OUR MINDS WILL.

GETTING OLD SUCKS! TAKE IT EASY JIPPED AND DONT BANG YOURSELF UP TOO BAD! IVE BEEN OUT FOR 2 WEEKS WITH A PARTIALLY TORN HAMSTRING AND IT SUCKS SITTIN ONTHE SIDELINES WATCHING EVERYONE ELSE. I WOULD HAVE RATHER WENT OUT AND RODE AT 65% ALL SUMMER THAN TO GO 110% ON ONE SATURDAY AND BE OUT THE NEXT MONTH. I GUESS ILL LEARN TOO

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Originally Posted by O2BESOHUGE

I THINK THIS IS THE BRIDGE MOST OF US ARE AT...WE ARE GETTING UP IN AGE SO THAT OUR BODIES ARENT LETTING US DO WHAT WE THINK OUR MINDS WILL.

GETTING OLD SUCKS! TAKE IT EASY JIPPED AND DONT BANG YOURSELF UP TOO BAD! IVE BEEN OUT FOR 2 WEEKS WITH A PARTIALLY TORN HAMSTRING AND IT SUCKS SITTIN ONTHE SIDELINES WATCHING EVERYONE ELSE. I WOULD HAVE RATHER WENT OUT AND RODE AT 65% ALL SUMMER THAN TO GO 110% ON ONE SATURDAY AND BE OUT THE NEXT MONTH. I GUESS ILL LEARN TOO

O2

IVE BEEN RYING TO TELL YOU THAT FOR A LONG TIME NOW. IVE FINALY LISTEN TO MY BODY WELL SORT OF AFTER 4 SURGERIES IN THE LAST 3 YEARS. LIFTING AND DOING KICK BOXING 3X A WEEK I'M JUST BREAKING DOWN MY BODY

Tweetthe thing is i havent been damaged. just hurt there is a diff. i am fairly durable and other than a broken foot and dislocated finger i have never had a real injury in MMA. hell i got hurt more power lifting in a month than i ever have fighting.

just seems i have to try 2X as hard for 1/2 the results as the young guys.

am i past my prime? i dont feel old..............i guess as my youth slips away it goes so slowly i dont notice the step slower every year and the one less rep but cumulatively it has effected me.

i am going to stick with it until i just cant. i can walk again without limping (train again tonight)

maybe its just pride, i am the oldest in my class (next oldest in 32) and they call me old man. never really bothered me until now. i feel i have somthing to prove. hope my pride dosnt get me wrecked.

i feel like the old lion on the discovery channel that has held his pride for years but now there are younger lions threatening to kick kick him out which is the end for the old lion, i know that wont make much sense to the young fellas. is 40 old?

Tweeti had a buddy that used to smack his shins with a pipe. when i told people he did this for martial arts, they all looked at me like i was lying, lol...i didnt see the dude for a few years and the next time i did, he was a baaaad dude, lol.