Thanks for all of the advice guys! I guess I am going to have to suck it up and get better shin guards while I'm toughening them up to let them heal - and yeah we do spar a lot - we basically train knockdown first - karate second - at least that's what it feels like. My first class was a fight team training class - I was destroyed (more like crippled acutally). . . but it made me want to do it again, and again, and again. Thanks for the encouraging words - I don't get a whole lot of encouragement in this Kyokushin endeavor of mine from the folks in my life. I guess that's why we have forums like this. Also, I guess I have to accept the fact that yes - at 32 - I have to be more patient about my training. When I was 21 and doing Ving Tsun five days a week - I remember how tore up my hands and forearms were all the time - they took a lot of abuse - always a brownish hue from conditioning and fighting - the pain I didn't care about and I recovered quickly - now - eleven years later it's a little slower to bounce back.
On the upside - having hurt shins all the time has made my hands able to hit like a freight train and my hand technique is great - but unfortunately my kicks are pretty piss poor . . .Ahh patience and time.
Thanks for the help guys and I guess I'll check my "Man Ego" and go buy some better shin guards.
Osu!
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