What the!? AAAAH Kendo feet!!!!

[Rohr]

So i've been thinking for awhile now that it would be pretty fun to have a "dirty kendo foot" competition ^^. Basically, take a picture of your nasty callused kendo feet and post it on the forums for all to rate. This will require a lot of participation to make it interesting so please just take a few minutes after kendo to post a picture of your foot on the forum :D! Also, please don't turn this thread into a "Oh muh gord your foot work sucks; why are all of your calluses on the tops of your feet!?" thread, just keep it simple :).

***(I just use photobucket.com to host my pictures... you can upload a picture right to their site in a few seconds and it lays out all the coding for you at the bottom. Registration is pretty easy also... I think it only asks you for an email address and a password... don't worry about spam... I have been posting pictures on photobucket.com for about two years now and they have yet to send me something.)***

Heres my foot... it's sort of a pathetic foot because I have only been doing Kendo for about 4 months now.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/roflpictures/IMAG0031.jpg

[Omnis]

At least get it your camera to focus right. I don't get blisters... just callouses.

That's a nasty foot, though. Haha.

[paradoxbox]

My feet look worse than that and I haven't even started kendo yet, I have a callouses that must be 1cm thick on my big toes.... :| Maybe it's time I buy new shoes.

[Newbie]

My second ever training session of kendo I got such a big, deep blister that never healed properly because I do a work out barefoot every morning, plut I'm on my feet alot all day, that I ended up with this never healing big flap of skin that I kept having to stop training to go and strap up with tape (then the tape would bunch up and come off), plus I was hobbling at work. I had to stop kendo just after I finished the beginners' and it took over six weeks of no kendo for it to heal.

A friend got me a tabi for Christmas and I had my first session back on Monday (back in the beginners' again) and now? My feet are fine :) Though at least a couple people have given me shit for being soft. So I tell them in no uncertain terms exactly why I wear one and that seems to shut them up :D

[Lucien]

I was doing jigeiko the other day. I looked down at my foot and I thought that I had a sticking plaster attached to it. I figured it had fallen off someone else's foot so I took off my kote to pull it off.

I gave it a good yank, only to realise it was flap of my own skin.

Unfortunately, I don't have a photograph of it.

[Rohr]

looked down at my foot and I thought that I had a sticking plaster attached to it. I figured it had fallen off someone else's foot so I took off my kote to pull it off. I gave it a good yank, only to realise it was flap of my own skin... lol aaaaaaaaaaaaaw XD. I always get some nice grippy flaps of skin on the centers of my feet.

[Omnis]

Do you guys have neutral feet, or do you overpronate? I'm pretty lucky because my feet are pretty much perfectly neutral. Anyway, I'm thinking that overpronators (flat-footers) must blister a lot heavier than neutral-footed folks.

Any testimonials to prove this thought?

[Rohr]

MMMM... Could be... I have only three major blisters/calluses and I usually have my heel very high (I get comments on it all the time... really need to work on keeping it lower) with all of my weight on my big toe.

[Omnis]

Yeah, I can see that. Haha. I'll take pics of my foot as soon as I get my first mega-blister. Don't know when that will be, though.

[runsyi]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tweety...43.jpg&.src=ph (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tweety_marshmallow/detail?.dir=/5267&.dnm=c443.jpg&.src=ph)

[Taisaburo]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tweety...43.jpg&.src=ph (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tweety_marshmallow/detail?.dir=/5267&.dnm=c443.jpg&.src=ph)

O____________________O That, er, looks kinda bad... you might want to get that checked out by a doctor espeically the very top of the bottom of the foot.

[samurai999]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/roflpictures/IMAG0031.jpg

nah.. that isn't too bad. You have a blister on your toe though. My 0.02$(US) but try looking at the position of your feet the next time you are at kamae.. And runsyi, stop showing us your nasty feet. Besides, it don't compare to T Lees. ahaha

Tim

[nebosuke]

Rohr, you might want to make sure you are keeping your foot straight, the way that callous on your big toe kind of wraps up onto the side makes me think you could possibly be turning it.

[自由に私の毒液は流れる]

can you wear shoes in kendo? i have a fear of gettin all sweatie, slipping, and fallin on my ass.

[Newbie]

No shoes. You can't move properly.

But on another note - talk about kendo feet. Friend was helping me learn the first three kata in his back yard tonight and I sliced my foot open on a sharp piece of rock sticking up out of the bricks. It's a doozie - about seven inches long or so and razor thin. So we taped it up, I put a sock on and we kept going :) Doesn't really hurt..... yet.

I reckon now I've just started in armour my footwork's gotten naff. I've started getting callouses and blisters from the dojo floor through by tabi. Now that shouldn't happen.

No photos though, unfortunately. Wait till I've figured out my digital camera.

[dohrt]

http://home.comcast.net/~kendolife/images/lfoot.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kendolife/images/rfoot.jpg

Some days I don't get much blister, and others, I get really bad - must be my footwork - don't know if I'm twisting, or not keeping my feet straight, but this last round (mostly healed in the photos) I am pretty sure happened during some haya-suburi - I was unusually hot that night, which may have also contributed. My left foot where the skin is now dead was a huge blood blister which partially healed, got re-bloodied, healed again, and then finally tore (no more blood, yay !). It hurt a lot when it had blood in it, but now it isn't bad at all. Felt fine last night at practice.

[Rohr]

Oh wow ^^! That is one mad callus.