Me poor ol'e 'ands!

[Adam]

It seems to me that the indestructible two-foot rock-hard callous I used to have on my two front knuckles has shrunk a bit, although the leather skin's tough as ever. Can callousing/conditioning disappear over time or through lack of conditioning?

[YODA]

Yes - I used to do all that stupid punching of straw bound posts when I was younger and didn't know any better.

They're ok again now :D

[Scotty Dog]

Originally posted by Adam
It seems to me that the indestructible two-foot rock-hard callous I used to have on my two front knuckles has shrunk a bit, although the leather skin's tough as ever. Can callousing/conditioning disappear over time or through lack of conditioning?

And I'm the one that gets arthritus.......

I ask you :confused:

[Adam]

Doan worry, I have enough arthritis to cripple a third-world nation. The question was intended to be about if I could loose my "hard hands" if I stopped doing anything involving my knuckles?

[Saz]

Yeah, you would loose them. When I was training for my grading, my skin started to toughen up a fair bit, I'm assuming from doing seiken push ups on a hard floor and hitting my bag. Now I've stopped again, the tough skin is starting to go back to normal.

[Adam]

no, i mean the bone hardening, not the skin hardening?

[Saz]

As far as I know, the skin hardening is a result of the bone hardening. It will probably go too, but slowly. It all depends on the calcuim and what not.