Shin Conditioning Is A Must

[D.Cobb]

Are you conditioning your shins to spar in your dojo/dojang/kwoon or are you thinking this is important for self-defense?

If the former, are elbow strikes to the shins allowed or is that a foul? I don't see the point if your style does not allow for leg kicks and you are not doing for self defense.

If you think you are doing it for self-defense purposes, how many times have you been attacked at the shin level?

Miles

In the ring we get to see multiple leg strikes, and if we want to defend against this then we need to condition our shins, becaus we are going 3, 4 or 5 3 minute rounds. In self defense, we want to be finished with the whole sorry mess in a matter of seconds. Don't give him room to kick effectively close the gap on him and bash the living s**t out of him. Put serious intent behind every strike, don't think about points, points will get you dead. Kick his knees out, stomp down his shins, if the shins don't get hurt then the ankles will. Attack the pressure points on the insides or outside of his thighs with your knees.
None of these attacks can be conditioned against.

--Dave