Topic: How to prevent losing large amounts of skin off your feet? (doing JJ)
So, I seem to be one of the lucky few who constantly lose skin from my feet when rolling. It seems I have the tender skin of a new born baby on my feet coupled with the fact I have the toes of a monkey that curl up sharply at the joint.
As a result, if I roll without taping my toes up I WILL lose the skin off the tops of 2-6 toes each time. If I don't wear socks (and I HATE to be the guy wearing socks.....) I lose skin off the tops and sides of my feet. I am not talking a the first layer of dead skin....I lose down through the first layer of skin....and then get to live with open soars/pain for days until they heal, which takes 4-7 days.
I have tried a few things:
Taping the toes/feet - it is a pain in the ..... doing it each time a roll
Wearing socks - as I said...hate to be "that guy" - I looked at the "grappling socks", but those seem just as bad.
Put on "Invisible Bandage" before I roll - helped slightly, but still got a few sores.
Just put up with it and hope that I develop callous' - this just resulted in opening up the sores over and over.
Any ideas on what I could put on my feet to toughen up the skin and prevent this???
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