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It will take a long time, your shins have to get use to the beating. It took me a couple of weeks to get my shins use to the beating. At first I would not be able to kick hard because they hurt too much, but then after a couple of weeks they build a tolerance to the pain and you can just drive your kick through the opponent. Just stay with it and tough it out now because it will pay off later. I know, because I did it.
Few weeks. I do thai boxing, and at the very beginning they make you kick the heave bag with your shin repeatedly. I could barely walk the next few days. But it's a one time thing. Once your shins are used to it, you won't hurt as much. And believe me, blocking with your shin is a hell of a lot less painful than getting hit in the quad 
Andy13 said:
Hehe, sounds like we've got ourselves another Muay Thai fighter... it'll be a few months before you can really take the shit, but your time to recovery will keep getting shorter and shorter as you go. The first bruise may be there for just under a week, but a kick/block of the same intensity will heal relatively faster the next time. Some things I learned:
-you grow (barely visible) calluses - try to get hit in different places each time to get it it over with all at once.
-if it's really painful, like it was for me at the beginning, practice regular kickboxing or just boxing while you're healing to build speed, coordination, and dexterity - pain tolerance will have to wait a few days.
-last, one word: revgear. get yo' broke ass some shinpads after the first few beatings or while recovering, damnit.
L8R.
Wicked Mental
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I wish I could give an exact time, but like muscle building, everyone is different. I would suggest getting a nice bottle of Thai Boxing oil from www.fairtex.com.
PS. Don't go kicking wooden posts either because that shit is only done in the movies.
PS. Don't go kicking wooden posts either because that shit is only done in the movies.
XBiker
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What you are needing is bone density and it takes a while to build up. Just like your knuckles take a while to get used to the heavy bags.
Epsom salt will work, but it is a little difficult to soak your whole leg. What I used to do is soak a wash cloth in a solution of hot Epsom salt/water. Get the cloth wet and lay it over your shin. Not too hot, but good and warm.
XBiker
Epsom salt will work, but it is a little difficult to soak your whole leg. What I used to do is soak a wash cloth in a solution of hot Epsom salt/water. Get the cloth wet and lay it over your shin. Not too hot, but good and warm.
XBiker
willing2be-freaky
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yo
rub a glass bottle up and down ur shin every night b4 u go to bed ur shins will become desensitized to the pain and kickboxing is cool and all but try gracie jiu jitsu because no matter how big someone is if they cant fight on the ground theyre screwed i am only 155 lbs and i whipped a 230lb guys ass in my class!
rub a glass bottle up and down ur shin every night b4 u go to bed ur shins will become desensitized to the pain and kickboxing is cool and all but try gracie jiu jitsu because no matter how big someone is if they cant fight on the ground theyre screwed i am only 155 lbs and i whipped a 230lb guys ass in my class!
1bigpitbull
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Dude I think Big Buck does kick boxing ask him.
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bigpimp
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bro...i was in kickboxing for about 4 years and my shins always hurt.....maybe i was just lucky
healing time
Bro,
Each time you injure your shin give it some time to heal by using shin guards. Sometimes guys are most vulnerable to that type of injury because they panic during sparring and lift their leg to block the motion they see coming and check shins with their opponent, rather than blocking with hands or getting away from strike without checking legs. Once the shin is injured it is easy to keep reinjuring it over and over again.
My shins have been so sensitive from injury that when my opponent blocks a kick even lightly, I feel like my shin was just hit with a bat.
Let it heal
Bro,
Each time you injure your shin give it some time to heal by using shin guards. Sometimes guys are most vulnerable to that type of injury because they panic during sparring and lift their leg to block the motion they see coming and check shins with their opponent, rather than blocking with hands or getting away from strike without checking legs. Once the shin is injured it is easy to keep reinjuring it over and over again.
My shins have been so sensitive from injury that when my opponent blocks a kick even lightly, I feel like my shin was just hit with a bat.
Let it heal
Little Rage
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I know when i started to get into kickboxing back in highschool, it took my shins about 1 year of kicking my chair in the basement (since i didn't have a heavy bag) to get use to the pain... 
This is how guys break boards with their shins.
It takes months of deadening the shins.
What some martial artists do is take a bamboo stick and rub it up and down their shins. This toughens the skin (creating a pad of comfort
) as well as de-sensatizes (sp?) the skin around that area.
After doing that on a daily basis for a while, you can plant your shin in someone's skull without even flinching.
Enjoy!
--Hess
It takes months of deadening the shins.
What some martial artists do is take a bamboo stick and rub it up and down their shins. This toughens the skin (creating a pad of comfort
) as well as de-sensatizes (sp?) the skin around that area.After doing that on a daily basis for a while, you can plant your shin in someone's skull without even flinching.
Enjoy!
--Hess
willing2be-freaky
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you cant kick on the ground
who was the last pure kick boxer (or any stand up artist for that matter) to win a no rules tournament.... nuff said!
who was the last pure kick boxer (or any stand up artist for that matter) to win a no rules tournament.... nuff said!
Re: you cant kick on the ground
If you're referring to the UFC, then you should know that it's merely a vehicle to promote Gracie's fighting style. It's not entirely NHB.
But I agree that ground fighting is important that's why I do Pankration, which is a combo of muay thai & submission wrestling.
willing2be-freaky said:
If you're referring to the UFC, then you should know that it's merely a vehicle to promote Gracie's fighting style. It's not entirely NHB.
But I agree that ground fighting is important that's why I do Pankration, which is a combo of muay thai & submission wrestling.
BloodyMule
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Who was the last, um how about Maurice Smith.
Anyway, kickboxing will take quite a few months for the shin pain to go away. Reason it takes long is, you shins have never had to do something like this so your body isn't used to it, and 2 you wear pads in kickboxing which will protect, yet pro-long the shins from getting used to it. I switched to thai boxing with no pads, elbow's and knee's about 2yrs ago.. That fuckin really hurts. But in time, you get used to it. Hitting your shins at night, very lightly tapping, will help your shins get used to it, and help with the calcium build up. Also, the thai oil, helps a lot! It kinda numbs the nervous system where you apply for a few hours while working out. Good luck, stick with it it's well worth it...
Mule.
Hey willy,
have you ever fought someone in the streets whom out weighed you by 50-70 pounds...
I do I little brazilian jujitsu, and I have been doing japanese jujitsu for 21/2 years. it involves control, breaks, strikes, subimission, throws etc... and I'm also getting ready to do kempo and boxing.
brazilian jujitsu is only good for the ring!!! if someone comes at you with a knife, are you going to grapple him to the ground?? what if it's more than one guy??? you're going to take him to the ground. while the other guys measures have far his going to kick your head???
about a couple of weeks ago my friend decided to fight two bouncers at a bar... he does BJ. I'm being held back by two 300 pounders inside the bar. I just kept my cool. I wasn't looking to get arrested, I had to go to work the next day. i was able to watch through the window. He decided to take one guy down with him and grapple him. the other bouncer came from behind I started to pund his head in. I would have just choked him out if I was the bouncer. anyway... what my friend did was not a good move....
bc, I kept my cool the bouncers let me leave the bar through the front and I wen t aound the back of bar to get my friend that was catching a beating. by now I could see the cop cars coming and even though my friend was getting fucked up they were going to arrest him on top of that. to make a long story short after that night he realized that he was not the bad motherfo he thought he was in class!!
I'm not knocking brazilian jujitsu. I actually love it. but don't tell me you are taking care of 230pounders or whatever. I'm not saying you can't handle a much heavier guy in class. trust me when I firt started I was getting my ass handled by 16year olds!! the kid weigh 130 I was 180 at the time. it makes you think and it put you in perspective. I learned the "leave the ego at the door" pretty quick.
well good luck with your training!!!
have you ever fought someone in the streets whom out weighed you by 50-70 pounds...
I do I little brazilian jujitsu, and I have been doing japanese jujitsu for 21/2 years. it involves control, breaks, strikes, subimission, throws etc... and I'm also getting ready to do kempo and boxing.
brazilian jujitsu is only good for the ring!!! if someone comes at you with a knife, are you going to grapple him to the ground?? what if it's more than one guy??? you're going to take him to the ground. while the other guys measures have far his going to kick your head???
about a couple of weeks ago my friend decided to fight two bouncers at a bar... he does BJ. I'm being held back by two 300 pounders inside the bar. I just kept my cool. I wasn't looking to get arrested, I had to go to work the next day. i was able to watch through the window. He decided to take one guy down with him and grapple him. the other bouncer came from behind I started to pund his head in. I would have just choked him out if I was the bouncer. anyway... what my friend did was not a good move....
bc, I kept my cool the bouncers let me leave the bar through the front and I wen t aound the back of bar to get my friend that was catching a beating. by now I could see the cop cars coming and even though my friend was getting fucked up they were going to arrest him on top of that. to make a long story short after that night he realized that he was not the bad motherfo he thought he was in class!!
I'm not knocking brazilian jujitsu. I actually love it. but don't tell me you are taking care of 230pounders or whatever. I'm not saying you can't handle a much heavier guy in class. trust me when I firt started I was getting my ass handled by 16year olds!! the kid weigh 130 I was 180 at the time. it makes you think and it put you in perspective. I learned the "leave the ego at the door" pretty quick.
well good luck with your training!!!
