How To Kicking Opponent's Leg Without Breaking Our Own Shin

*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 Check, our shin will crashing their strong knee part and we will break our own shin. Thin bone meet with thick bone, that's will be very hurt.

Round Kick is only effective to kicking opponent’s soft and weak areas. Like side chin, ribs or calf.

 

Even if the opponent blocking our kick using Leg Check, we will not breaking our own shin because our shin is not crashing the opponent's strong knee part. Thin bone meet with 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 out shin.

One interesting question is: When we aiming our Round Kick to opponent's ribs, they often doing Leg Check and our shin hit their knee too. But why our shin is not break here?

Because when the opponent doing Leg Check 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 Check-ing our high kick like these:

The impact on the our shin is not too hard, sometimes there is no impact. That why our shin will not break here (based on my personal experience).