Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Proper Shin Conditioning - DON'T KILL YOUR NERVES!

When I first started Muay Thai about a year ago, my coach introduced himself by knocking his knuckles on his shins. This knock produced a hollow sound followed by a gasp amongst the class and him jokingly saying, "These nerves are dead."

After that, this idea of shin conditioning was rooted in my head - shin conditioning was killing your nerves. Subsequently during classes, I witnessed some of the seniors rolling bamboo sticks on their shins, applying pressure as they did. Some of them even tied a couple of thin sticks (the kind you used to make cane) into a bundle and began hitting their shins with it.

As much as I wanted to have shins with extreme immunity to pain, I never dared to venture that far. At first I was afraid of the pain and then, I began researching on shin conditioning and I realised that shin conditioning in these methods kills the nerves in your shins! What is wrong with killing the nerves in your shins? What are the consequences?

Your Nerves are Damaged for Life!
Nerve's are your body's form of communication. The nerves are free ended in a deep layer of the skin called the dermis; they pick up any pain or other senses from the environment and send these messages to the brain (via other nerves), which in turn reacts to the stimuli in an appropriate manner. Nerve damage are usually accompanied by pain, numbness, weakness or paralysis. Some me may feel these symptoms in areas far from the site of damage (referred pain) and this occurs because signaling is defective from all parts of the area which the nerve receives input, not just the site of the damage.

Proper Conditioning of Shins
I would say proper conditioning of shins should come in the following methods:

  • Kick heaving bags and / or Thai pads at least 100 times a day and gradually increase the number of times as your shins get used to the impact. Start by kicking the bag lightly and then slowly increasing the impact as you go along.
  • Stop every so often and massage your shins vigorously, allowing the circulation of blood to return to normal. This promotes faster healing of any damage to the flesh or bone. Remember, if you have a nasty bruise on your shin, stop for a while and waiting for it to heal.
  • DO NOT "beat" or "tap" your legs with sticks, boards, metal, ironing boards, baseball bats whatever. Worst still, DO NOT try kicking bamboo or coconut trees. Even the Thais don't do that. They kick baby coconut trees that have soft trunks. These will cause bruises, knots, bone damage to your shins and will stick with you for a long time.
  • Optionally, you can use soft plastic bottles or rolling pin and toll it up and down the length of your shin lightly. Do this for maybe 15 mins per shin.

One of the more traditional methods still in practice is hitting your shin with a wet cloth. I suppose this will not have that great a damage on your shins as the material is soft. Kicking pads and heavy bags will as well do some damage to your nerves but they repair themself after some time. So instead of working towards creating dead nerves, you are conditioning your shins to take impact.

Shin conditioning is a gradual process, you cannot rush it. The above idea of proper shin conditioning are just my thoughts on the matter. Of course, some Muay Thai practitioners find it better to kill the nerves, especially female fighters as they're shins are less hardy than guys. I personally feel that dead shins are just empty shells attached to the body.

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Unknown said...

Thanks for the tip. I've been training in Muay Thai for about 8 years now and I have yet to roll a pipe down my shins. Heavy bag, Heavy bag, Heavy bag....

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