hi guys is there anything I can get to ease the bruising/soreness in my shins/legs. I'm training hard at the moment but can hardly walk

Thanks
Ben

Do you wear shin pads? If not thats always a good start. Or maybe not go in as hard and possibly some muscle rub or thai oil it may help the soreness.

get yourself some lesther twins thsi pads, theyre also good for protecting the feet. other thsn than, it will take time to heal, and avoid heavy blocks. Try to kick snd land with the bottom third of the shin, and block with the top part of the shin. aviod the middle as its the weakest there.

cryogel has arnica and a deep heat in it (so good for muscle strain as well) - arnica will speed up bringing out the bruising or you could just buy arnica....

Again do not be over ambicious with your shin conditioing it takes time - hammering them will just be a painful draw out experience....stick to wacking a soft (i.e material filled) heavy bag once you have shins of steel move onto sand filled bags etc - in the meantime take it easy when training against people or use shinnies.

get leg kicks checked are okay, when checked with a shin that is but when your kick is checked with their knee, corrrrrrr.

yeah, if they are really good they will check with the sticky out bone just under the knee ...if someone does this spot on they know what their doing ...it's at this point I would stop throwing leg kicks and save my shins for another day.

I use arnica gel on occasions but shin guards will definitely be a better long term training aid.

yep, switch to some feints, teeps or high kicks.

although depending on the height of the person, the might elbow your shin, that too is ouch.

Yep, did that the other week...thought I'd broken my foot. Swelled up a treat! Did the old RICE and popped some arnica tabs. Was good within a couple of days but has made me think more about shin pads if only for sparring lol.

ha ha ...yeah - I've undertaken way to many toe inspections over the years after elbow meets toe situations - an I'm not just talking about my own toe's - thing that gets me the most about this is it's normally newbie's who do it by mistake as apposed to someone doing it on purpose to hinder you......it's at this point I question once again why I was too lazy to walk over to my bag an put my shinnies on (he ponders whilst trying not to cry and wondering how he is gonna get his shoe on an drive home).