I've never seen anyone break a bone in real life. I've never even broken one of my own bones. So I don't have much to go on to decide if this clip of a kickboxer breaking his leg is real or fake. But it sure looks fake, especially the way his foot immediately resembles a limp sock once his shin breaks. But perhaps that's what a broken shin looks like.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKMzKYjyq8E&search=shin%20break
coooool
What's odd about the kickboxing vidoe is that it's the kicker not the kickee whose leg breaks. Also the page title on the google video says "Maybe it's fake".
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*More shudder*
I practice Muay Thai (basically kickboxing w/ elbows and knees) and I will tell you that if blocked correctly, a kicker gets far more injured than the kickee. If the defender brinks up his leg so that the thigh is parallel to the ground and the knee is bent at a right angle, the kicker has little to know chance of hurting the defender (if he kicks the leg). I've been hurt before by a sparring partner blocking even light kicks.
1. The "leg" after it was broken, twirled rapidly, with only a sock holding it in place. This type of movement would be typical with a sever compund fracture and would have involved gross amounts of bleeding.
2. The video, in it's epic 7 second length, doesn't really show the kickboxer using the leg very much before the kick. One of two things could explain this: a) he is a below the knee amputee, b) his leg is bent behind him. In either case the tube sock would adequately cover an inappropriately applied prosthetic leg or other object that would simulate a break.
If you've ever seen a compund fracture you know there is a lot of blood, instantly. With a simple fracture the bone retains some of it's supportive strength, what's more is that for the movement of the "leg" in this video both bones of the lower leg would have suffered compound fractures. From the force of the kick and counter-force of the block this seems very unlikely.
And in this case, if you'll look closely and pay close attention, your "sock" theory is flawed by the fact that he isn't wearing any socks; both fighters are barefoot, as is common in this type of fighting.
So all in all, this can be real. You don't have to be spurting gallons of blood to have a serious bone fracture. Trust me, I've seen it and I deal with this type of stuff on a daily basis.
You can do a rough approximation of this by wrapping a pencil fairly loosely in food wrap (loosely because our limbs are full of soft tissue). Then break the pencil without puncturing the food wrap. Then twirl it. It flaps.
However, I stand by what I said of this being a very realistic injury, in the way that the guy fell on it and the way it bent under his body under his weight.
Here's a video link to the verified Sid Vicious break I mentioned in my last post so you can see what I'm talking about. He broke his leg nearly in half and retired shortly after. Just posting this to show how similar injuries really happen.
http://media.putfile.com/WCW---Sid-Vicious---Leg-Break---Wrestlin
The shin is a very very voulrnable bone in the body, you pretty much can't use that part of the leg to attack at low kick. (shin height) I never really understood the use of this low kick.
Why use this low kick if the 'chances' of damaging yourself is so high.
I think a lot of young kick/ thai boxers dont even realize that this technique is not really smart to use in the ring.
People: Its easy to break youre shin, no matter how big or hard you've trained.....
It was this as well as other incidents that made it more difficult to get this type of event legalized in California.
There are several more videos of the exact same break from such kicks. In my school, Kung Fu University, we teach a few ways to intentionally break the leg of such a kick.
It has happened in my schools twice over the years.
The first was a guy who came in off of the street in Phoenix, Arizona and wanted to fight. The second was in Houston, Texas. During a competition with a Taekwondo student, who broke his leg.
Seems to always be the right leg. LOL
Straight kicks using the heel are the most effective and a straight line is much faster than a curve or an arc.
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