*Warning!! Photos in this article are horrifying for sensitive readers!!*
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Why there are so many fighters who broke their own shin when they kicking the opponent’s leg in fighting tournaments?
The reason is: Those fighters who broke their own shin are smashing their own weak bone wrongly to opponent’s strong body part.
Some instructors are often teaching their students to aiming the Round Kick to opponent's thigh like these:
The fact is: Kicking the opponent’s thigh using Round Kick is ineffective technique because thigh have strong and thick muscle.
And if the opponent blocking our kick using a Leg Block, our shin will crash their strong knee part and we will break our own shin. Thin bone vs with thick bone, that's will be very hurt.
Round Kick is only effective to kicking opponent’s soft and weak areas like ribs and calf.
Even if the opponent blocking our kick using Leg Block, we will not break our own shin because our shin is not crashing the opponent's strong knee part. Thin bone vs Thin bone so it won't break.
Sometimes the opponent's hanging leg will be carried along with our kick, so it won't feel hard to our shin.
One interesting question is: When we aiming our Round Kick to opponent's ribs, they often blocking our kick with Leg Block and our shin hit their knee too. But why our shin is not break here?
Because when the opponent doing Leg Block too high to blocking our high Round Kick, their balance is unstable, their body mass become weak. Sometimes the opponent also will fall when trying to Leg Block-ing our high kick like these:
The impact on our shin is not too hard, sometimes there is no impact. That why our shin will not break here (based on my personal experience in Taekwondo and Kickboxing).
By the way, there are also several alternative kicks that we use to kicking opponent’s leg like Sweep Kick to ankle or Stomp Kick to side knee.
