Contact and Range Calibration Drill Book: Put the Kick on Your Shin and Keep It There

Mat Manual companion guide to "You're Hitting With Your Foot, Not Your Shin." Print it. The article explains why the foot keeps collecting the bill. This book recalibrates you: freeze tests for every kick height, step-length and trajectory drills, a contact audit system for every set you throw, pad-holder standards, a four-week rebuild with an eight-week extension, and logs that prove the contact moved.

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SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ☐ Calibration work starts at quarter speed with freezes. No full-power kicking until your contact passes the Part 3 audit at moderate speed. Power on wrong contact is how feet break. ☐ Stop any set when contact falls apart. Tired, reaching kicks injure the foot they land with. The set ends on form, not on a number. ☐ Sharp pain, one-spot tenderness you can point to with one finger, pain that worsens over days, swelling that does not settle overnight, or any suspected fracture: no kicking on that leg, and get it assessed. Conditioning soreness fades between sessions. Injury pain keeps its address. ☐ Checking drills (Part 12) run at agreed intensity with shin guards in partner work, agreed out loud before the round. Shin-to-shin contact is trained progressively, never as a surprise test. ☐ Head-kick calibration is done on pads and the bag only in this book. No head kicks are thrown at partners in the drills that follow.

Part 1: The Contact Map (Post This Where You Train)

The one-sentence law. If the foot or ankle is the first thing to arrive, the kick was thrown from the wrong range, on the wrong path, or both — regardless of how it felt.