I would guess because you need to be closer to land one and it would leave you more exposed to counters, plus the opponent might check it anyway (though not as often as Thais).
How would having a conditioned shin help if you get hit on the calves?
Well, the calf kick is supposed to target the calf, not the shin. The conditioned shin plays a role in the checking, but really its the checking missing more-so than the conditioning in MMA.How does having a well conditioned body help with getting hit you're asking?
No that's not what i'm asking. I am asking how having conditioned shins helps with taking kicks to the calves. It clearly states:How does having a well conditioned body help with getting hit you're asking?
Gonna have to disagree there. Your muscles do get conditioned to take shots. Take a year off from kickboxing and leg kicks will feel way more painful then they will a few weeks down the line after taking them. That's why a lot of gyms temper the legs by having students trade unblocked leg kicks. Look up "Body Tempering".
Of course, but some people will have weak ability to take hits no matter what. Myself as an example; I can pretty much any hit to the upper body, to the legs not so much. It's something I've always had and of course it will also depend on my level of fitness and preparation. Others just have rock hard legs, for example Rodtang or Rodlek, it's something innate with their body type. Anyway, my super-conditioned abs will not transfer to the thighs, nor will my shins being conditioned help my calves.
Distance doesnt change much whether its calf or thigh from what I've seen. And anyways a Dutch style low kick exposes you much worse with how close you have to be to chow down. Some of these European guys really dont even try to check low kicks sometimes, look at that Russian guy that rodtang last fought. He just absorbed rodtangs low kick to his thigh over and over, rodtang probably could have disrupted his movement at least if threw more to the calf
Having conditioned shins isnt going to prevent the calf muscle from being damaged just like it wont prevent the thigh from being damaged.
Sure, and even people with conditioned legs can still get stopped from leg kicks. I feel like I can take pretty hard leg kicks but I took one high on the thigh last year that put me out for over a month. I feel like I was kind of weakened when I took it as I was sick the weak prior with what may have been COVID since it only effected my lungs, but regardless I had a baseball sized lump in my thigh and it even effected the hip joint. I'm just now getting back into sparring.
So everyone should just not throw kicks to the thigh anymore then either and assume that the opponents thighs are too conditioned?
