1. You're not checking the kick at all and if this is the case then any striker on the planet will take advantage of that.
2. If you are checking the kick then you are not turning your shin out which is leaving your thigh and calf exposed rather than your shin. This is a huge problem because you will find yourself being kicked in the soft tender areas as opposed to the harder boney areas. Your leg should be facing outside of the body instead of straight up.
In many forms of martial arts we condition the body to be able to take strikes and kicks. The only real safe way is to have a qualified instructor teach you how to do this correctly. This is basically having someone kick you up and down the legs first lightly, then after a week or two a little harder, slowing increasing the intensity of the kicks over a period of time.
Unfortunately too many rush this, get bruised and hurt themselves slowing the process, and risking permanent injury.
Body Conditioning!
It will take a while, but that's what you seem to need. There are many ways to go about this. Usually comes from sparring and training.
You can lightly hit your body and increase the power for 20 minutes a day.
-Caution
A note of caution here; there are two different kinds of pain. One is where conditioning takes place; the other is where some kind of damage is being done. You will need to know the difference between the two to know which to push through and which to back off from.
-Conditioning Forearms and Shins
To condition your forearms and shins you will need any hard or semi hard surface. Do your blocks, strikes (not fists) and shin kicks by striking this hard surface very softly and then going harder and harder from there.
This type of conditioning gives you that extra edge because your blocks and leg kicks will be extra hard. I saw a Kung Fu fighter who beat his opponent with 3 swift leg kicks – shin to shin!
-Punching Hand Conditioning
I am not entirely in favour of Makiwara (punching board) conditioning as I believe that it does too much irreparable damage to the hands and I have seen too many old Karateka with gnarled hands. But I believe the makiwara is an essential training tool and don't truly see any thing wrong with it. I have found, however, that a few rounds of bare-fisted boxing on a punch bag does the trick. Again, start slowly and softly and work yourself up to be able to hit with full power.
If you feel that you want to work with a Makiwara, then make sure that you take the proper precautions and learn how to do it properly.
The texture of a heavy bag is very similar to the human body (except for the bony parts) and is a good tool to practice your conditioning on.
Take a Punch
Take a boxing glove and punch your body in various places. Again, start slowly and softly and work yourself up going harder and harder, making sure never to go too hard, especially on your head.
Get your training partner or uke to condition your abs be throwing light and hard punches.
You can punch yourself in the body, your abs, ribs, your chest, your jaw and the upper part of your head. Stay well away from the sensitive temporal and facial bones.
A punch is a serious reality check and it is good to at least have an inkling of what it feels like.
There have been times where I did a lot of heavy sparring and this was one of my favourite warm-up methods.
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Put your weight on the leg or side of the body not getting hit. You're probably rooting your leg into the ground, so it's crow bar meets mail post. What you want is to use your legs as a chain, so that when something hits it, it just swings away and you can absorb the hit over time.
Generally kicks do the most damage when they are fully extended at 3 times your arm length. Or rather their arm length. So if you don't want their kicks to hurt as badly when making contact, go towards them and upset their balance. If you wait at their optimum range, because somebody trained you to do this, then full power hits are like fully accelerating cars. 60mph hurts more than 10 mph. Don't give them the time to accelerate their leg, and make sure their balance is off so they can't stand on one of their legs easily. Thus go in near them and brawl them out at .5 to 1 arm length distance.
You check on or two.
Drink lots of green tea and soy protein to be loking like Yodsanklai Fairtex or Bruce Lee.
Im a well trained boxer (not kick boxer) and I've started taking MMA classes but getting kicked to the thigh and calves are seriously painful during sparring i know most people will say the only way to stop the pain is to get use to it but is there a way i can strengthen them to become more tolerant the pain faster or to make it no hurt so bad
