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You can kick full force with shin guards on and it won't hurt even a fraction of what a kick without shin guards. Maybe if you're untrained of if you're much smaller than your sparring partner if will hurt.
Calf kicks would hurt even less since it's double shin guard but if it's effective you'd still use it. Slapping knees in sparring don't hurt either and you use it all the time. It's sparring anyway, not actual fighting.
Calf kicks are used in Thailand and anywhere else in MT fights b/c that's what sweeps usually target and land on?
Your comparison of using the inner thighs during sparring for knees is flawed, because hard knees can do massive damage that's why it's not thrown hard and/or just slaps with the thigh. But hard kicks to the thigh during sparring is accepted as good training. And sparring is a form of competition....so if both have on shin guards and I get cracked in the thigh hard, I'm not going to get even by kicking his calf where he's basically guaranteed a block w/o doing anything due to his shin guard.
What do you mean it doesn't hurt. Will you let me kick you in the thigh 10x with my shin guards on? No flexing, just keep the lead leg light in the MT stance.