Iron Shin Training

[Dark_Evo_ChaosX]

Anyone interested in learning how to do Iron Shin Training? I'll post a link to a guide later. *I'm not going to do it right now in fear of immature people hurting themselves :P*

[Velvet_Nightmare]

What exactly is "iron shin training?"

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

According to Wikipedia, it is basically kicking stuff and getting hit in the legs in order to toughen them up for martial arts training.

[Eris]

According to Wikipedia, it is basically kicking stuff and getting hit in the legs in order to toughen them up for martial arts training.

Sounded like some sort of ailment... Like trench foot, or tennis elbow.

[rpgwiz99]

According to Wikipedia, it is basically kicking stuff and getting hit in the legs in order to toughen them up for martial arts training.

Who wants to get kicked in the legs? It sounds crazy to me.

[Faceless111]

Monks would do this by kicking bamboo throughout the day and it actually breaks your bones, then reconstructs them stronger than they were before. I personally, feel no need to do this. But I did see on TV the two world-record holders for iron-bone training. They'd break huge piles/walls of brick and wouldn't even get hurt. Like one of them would break ten bricks with just his forehead. Ouch. Not for me.

[Dark_Evo_ChaosX]

^your shin doesn't get kicked, you do the kicking against say, a padded tree. And faceless, you don't actually break your bones. you jsut take advantage of bone wolfes law.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Well, like I said, I just read it off Wikipedia.

Iron Shin- Use a rattan stick to tap on all the areas of the shin and occasionally roll it. This can also be practiced with a partner kicking shins against one another. At more advanced levels kicking trees can be used to harden your shins

[Dark_Evo_ChaosX]

Well yeah, that works too 2000. It's just that the tree is most effective.

[Faceless111]

And faceless, you don't actually break your bones. you jsut take advantage of bone wolfes law.I didn't mean an actual fracture. Your bones consist of a tightly compacted osseous tissue. Iron shin training means you break this tissue and then it reconstructs itself into a stronger, denser tissue, which is how you get the "iron" in "iron shin training."

[Sagat]

Muay thai kickboxers do this all the time but use the rubbery banana trees as opposed to a roller on the shins because the roller can produce micro fractures that will make your shins brittle with age, while the banana trees offer just enough elasticity to prevent that.

[Dark_Evo_ChaosX]

Sagat, inform me, do Muay thai kick boxers do iron body/shirt/palm/fist/forearm also?

[Sagat]

Do my knowledge they only really do it with their shins, the rest is all on pads