How old must a child be before I can condition his shins?

Is it me, but, I worry that the question has been asked in the first place !

 

Not a day before he turns 31 years old.

Until then let him be a kid and do whatever sports he wants.

 

seriously, though, I don't think you have to worry. When he sees daddy doing muay thai, he'll naturally want to copy

 

Unless daddy has a body that has broken down with all the shin-splints, weighted backpacks, shin conditioning and other miscellaneous nonsense....

 

^haha, very funny

and Kuma, when the kid is 8 or 9 or ten, add that to the years of training I put in

 

Well, funnily enough, children tend to copy adults regardless of how moronic the adult's behaviour is. Witness republicanism.

 

I wouldn't do it all.

Kicking a heavy bag for training will condition whatever needs to be done.

Please don't hit your son with sticks/do anything stupid.

 

^thats common sense,

nonsense like hannibals post

 

Or your training

 

From a lot of your posts, if you don't back off and use some common sense, you'll be using a cane by then.

Ask your instructor this question. They will tell you the same thing: Wait until he's an adult.

 

^why do you think I ask for advice on here? I take the advice

and I would think someone that is 37 would be more mature than how hes acting one here (hanibal)

 

You have only jut dropped a sprog and you are planning on when you can condition his shins - I think that immaturity us something you would be very comfortable with given those parameters

 

Too bad there isnt a block user button so I dont gotta read Hannibals ridiculous nonsensical posts

You need to focus on your 37 year old self and leave me be.

Simon S thank you, by Shin conditioning all I meant was hitting a heavy bag with his shins btw, I dont beleive in that roller trick to do it. After reading that article my initial thought were correct, conditioning a childs shin is out of the question since the bone will stunt in growth. Thanks to those that contributed intelligently to the thread.

 

Everything Simon said.

 

Slip I respect your opinion but in this case there have been cases; albeit extremely rare, of bone damage at a young age due to extreme conditioning or training. Just like bone scarring from using rolling pins on shins, you're not just dampening the nerve sensitivity, you're thickening the underlying bone in many cases. Think of a karatekas using a makiwara repeatedly causing damage to the joints in the hands, there have been cases of sarcoma's developing in very young long distance runners.

Sarcoma being a malignant tumor of the connective tissue, usually a tendon or a ligament. While I would say the vast majority of sports related training damage would be similar to a stress fracture or an unusual thickening of the bone, there have been isolated cases of tumors arising from over conditioning.

I have been in the medical field for 30+ years in radiology and radiation sciences and seeing these rare tumors could be purely coincidental due to their rarity, proving they were caused by sports might be difficult.