Originally Posted by Crompsin

Yeah, we still do that for competition and testing. Sure, it's good to toughen up your feet, but it's bad to damage them to the point where you're limping around when you fight the next day. Fight smarter, not harder. You can toughen up your feet with katas and bag drills... don't try to toughen 'em up in the ring... that's the wrong place to multitask. I also never have any embarrassing high-kick-heel-slide-ass-plants when I wear these rubber toe sock thingamajigs... something that happens occasionally when I spar barefoot with those way-too-slippery Century pads. Fall-down go-boom.



So do socks, I suppose. Stop playing by the rules!