Blisters

[Slivovitz]

I walked 6 miles in an hour and a half to my Kung Fu school today. It was generally easy, the only problems I encountered were blisters; I got them all over my feet and was unable to walk home. As I have never done this much walking on a daily basis before, I have a couple of questions for those who have: A) Will my feet eventually toughen/heal up? B) If not, is there anything in particular I can do to remedy the problem, i.e. tighten up my boots to the point where they're no longer comfortable (I'm currently walking in American paratrooper boots)?
Also, once there, and after having done an hour of punching, and lifting heavy weights, I found myself tired... and not in the "fatigued" sense of the word, I was hardly sweating, moreover in the "I really wanna go to sleep" sense of the word. Would eating a small protein bar or something at the end of the walk help with this?
Cheers,
William

[BobW]

Bonjour William,

You might not realize it but you are cluttering up a very high quality forum with questions most learned at the Cub Scout/Boy Scout level. Your blisters question can easily be answered at the local junior high school. Without looking at your boots and socks, an answer cannot be given from cyberspace.

I already urged you to get a medical exam prior to starting a training program. You are over your head and at risk of hurting yourself. I'm only relying on what you wrote. Besides wasting everyone's time, to include your own, you might want to consider finding a site that specifically addresses these questions.

Saluations,
BobW

[sikter]

Piss in your boots before walking and they'll mold like a golve. :)

[jock]

Piss in your boots before walking and they'll mold like a golve. :)
washing up liquid works even better and wont make your feet stink .
Funnily enough soaking your feet in hot water with full of washing up liquid will harden your feet .
better still catch the bus to your jap slapping lesson :D

[Eagle eye]

If the blister isn't open (I stress this) rub alcohol on the palm of yer feet. Adopt a gradual process, that is, don't soak you feet in alcohol...A gradual process dries the skin and creates a layer of dead skin that hardens your soles. In Mayotte, I walked barefoot on concrete floor and also found it to have a similar effect. After a while, I felt that I had already shoes walking barefoot..

[Beau-Sheep]

Now now William, first of all if the Legions finds blisters on your feet they will helivac you back to camp, if you feel tired in the afternoon have a word with your section sgt and I am sure he will arrange a nap for you.....!

Blisters, you will have them on your feet on your hands and on your back, step one, accept the pain, blisters will not get you any priviliges in the Legion, every ****ers got them.
Piss works, so does alcohol but follow eagles advise and do not rush the job. Inject them with Idodine, painful but works. Pop them and suffer works well to.

You feel tired? When they give you the Kepi they also give you a big bag of tired and you keep it for five years. Do us a favour and suffre en silence un peu?

Learn to take lifes little complaints without telling everyone and asking for advise, you will find if you dont you will attract the wrong kinda attention.

[voltigeur]

I found that clean heavy woolen socks like the Legion supplied in my time, worked the best for me. I never had blisters on my feet. plenty on my elbows from crawling on the hot pavement. (the whole training platoon had to do the crawling (rompez et marche canard) for singing out of tune :)

[Darkwolf]

Or just walk more....I walk a lot and find it good exersise, and you could strike matches on my feet now!lol
If you have recurrent problems then I suggest seeing a podiatrist. ;)

[Slivovitz]

Look, you don't like my posts, then put me on your ignore list. I'm fed up with being bitched at for not 'being relevant', or for being 'antisemitic' or whatever else you wanna label me as. If you don't like what I have to say, fine, don't read it. Bob, you speak of clutter, I'm attempting to get prepared for the Legion. As for the med exam, mind your own business, I'll get to it in my own time. Secondly, you don't run the board, if the owner of this webspace told me I was cluttering it up and costing him money, then fine, I wouldn't post as much. I just wanted to know how to deal with the blisters, soooo sorry if I'm not gung-ho enuf for ya. I used to be gung-ho, it bought me shin splints, winged scapula, and ****ed up rotator cuffs, so I'll save all the macho-man shit for the Legion thank you very much. I ain't gonna walk around soaking my goddamned socks in blood just so I can feel like a "big man" when the day's over, it gets me nowhere.
Yeah so? I was tired. I mentioned it cuz it was weird. I don't get tired like that from working out. I asked if it might have been due to not having eaten enuf. I don't give a flying **** whether "life's hard" in the Legion, I already know that. I'm fed up with being flamed on the internet, it doesn't mean shit, and it only pisses me off. Oh yeah, and thanks to those who actually gave me advice.

[yatez 44]

I put a pair of sport socks under my regular issue O.D greens,never had a problem..

[Beau-Sheep]

OK, pisses you off here? Gonna piss you off a lot more in La Jasse dude! Aint bein a bitch just stating facts

[Eagle eye]

I put a pair of sport socks under my regular issue O.D greens,never had a problem..Bless your cotton socks ! Yatez 44 !
I did the same but didn't want to have mine blessed by anyone on this board starting with the main man in Rome...

[Chris_Lee]

I got two words for you: Duct Tape! Blisters are caused by friction. There is no avoiding them. Apply tape as needed and keep walking. Sounds crazy...It was the easiest and fatest fix I had avaliable to me during my early days in the Army and it works. The only down side is that it hurts like hell. You have to leave it on until it starts falling off. Then you will be left with a a nice natural leather finish. The only answer to blisters is to reduce the friction and to keep walking.

[BobW]

William, my posts are not flames. Your posts are relevant. Your additude is terrible.

You ask questions of participants. I reply. Yu asked about training preparation and I replied mentioning a physical exam eg blood pressure and other vital signs. Others wrote this also. You do not post much. What you do post does contain a lot clutter. Reread them.

Your last post had an = A) = and a = B) =. Your last paragraph had = also =. I consider it my business to answer and I did. Otherwise I'd not participate here.

Training prior to a basic med exam after being alerted more than once about this also shows you also have poor decision making skills.

I personally do not believe you are preparing for the FFL but just working on your hobby. This detracts from those seeking entry into the Legion and those trying to help.

Saluations,
BobW

[jock]

Oh yeah, and thanks to those who actually gave me advice.
So all you need to do is get a large plastic bowl , fill it full of water . add some super soft fairy liquid and a bottle of Johhny Walker , piss in it then soak your feet . Then walk round a concrete car park in your bare feet for an hour before taping up yer feet and putting on 2 pairs of socks before pissing in your boots again.
Simple :p

[BobW]

Bonjour Chris,

Duct tape is a good idea.

I'd recommend wannabes go to Walmart or Watsons or any store similiar and first go over to the health care section and = browse = at all the various products for le pods that are available. They can next go over to the hardware section and get a small roll of duct tape and try it out.

There are some new things in the market now such as adhesive pads soaked in anti-bacterial oinments. Don't know much about this and will defer to Mick and Eagle Eye whenever medical ingredients are mentioned (except cognac).

For those since finished forever with sightseeing trips through parks and wannabes specializing in land-air talking in lieu of combat prep, there are places downtown Paris where une ampoule can be properly administered to with de la creme pour les pieds at salon de beaute. There is a 15% discount if the potential Legion recruit displays Legion insigna on his une trousse de maquillage (non gortex).

Saluations,
BobW
Motorized Infantry - When the going gets rough, carry a Sony AM-FM-shortwave radio with the Radio Shack headphones that can fold away flat.

[Eagle eye]

Just standard medical adhesive tape does the trick. It's called Elastoplast in France with its stretch capacity characteristic: I provided strips to each dude during Alpine training to protect the Achilles tendon from the friction of mountain boots. Very effective. Take the tape off after a good soak.
Motorized Infantry - When the going gets rough, carry a Sony AM-FM-shortwave radio with the Radio Shack headphones that can fold away flat.Variations of this were known with 2eREI VABs: during long-haul commuting from the workplacecumresidence (barracks) to the worksite of Centre d'entraînement commandos...

[Beau-Sheep]

Why carry a radio when one should be looking out of ones APC for bad boys and booboos? A radio? In the boonies? I think not sir, I would not be too impressed if i took over on stag from some bloke with red eyes and a boogie box blasting in his ears... in fact I think I would shoot him and claim an ND

[BobW]

Bonjour Beau-Sheep,

Actually, you're right and I've got to call em as I see 'em (American baseball expression). Everyone is supposed to be a lookout. Now, of course, in practical terms, when it's someone time to go off shift, a radio with headphones is OK. The Mike Fox problem is that the idiot ratio has increased and there is more than 1 story per unit about some idiot who did not remove batteries from the radio and it started blasting during light and noise silence.

An aside; The US Army's 1960s era big radio for something to do with artillery (used by French Army also, when received via Lend-Lease and post WWII US military assistance) designed the AN/GRC-5, known as the "angry 5" had some dial where shortwave could be received. Radio Nairobi Kenya was kept tuned in because they played American rock songs (pre-Floyd).

Saluations,
BobW

[Darkwolf]

RE:coverings for blisters, I would suggest "comfeel" as we successfully use it quite often for ulcerations and pressure areas/skin breakdown in my hospital unit....duct tape could work but don't just yank it off as you will take a hell of a lot of skin as well.....

[Slivovitz]

Bonjour Bobby,
My attitude is only "terrible" when I am provoked. The rest of the time I do my best to contribute to the board, and to be as polite as possible to everybody on it.
I AM serious about the FFL, I honestly don't know what I'm gonna do if they don't recruit me. A hobby tends to be a little bit less than contributing 7 hours of your day to exercise.
Duct tape has been working well, so has piss. ;)
Cheers,
William

[ranger]

why the hell do you guys piss in your boots? :eek: that's just nasty... hot water works fine :)

[thebeni]

Hey Slivovitz, have you tryed Zink oxide tape?

When i was in the RAf Regiment we were told to use it on area where blisters are likely to appear. If you use it, layer it like an aardvarks shell.

[flash010]

look baw jaws you got a shit load o info on it as yatz said sport socks under marching socks worked for me to as boeu said if you do get them iodine into the blister this is an old thread never tryed the piss trick but heard that works to keep your feet clean and they,ll carry you neglect them and your fu.ked mate ;)

[Martin Scott]

Piss in your boots leave overnight, polish in morning and walk in them they will fit you for life. Or if the worst comes to the worst don't join the Legion.

[voltigeur]

I never had any problems with blisters. The heavy woolen Legion issue socks did the trick for me, even in the desert areas. The key is to keep them clean. I do not know if they are still part of the kit.

[rickyhimalayan]

After your blisters has healed completely, William you can try running on sand bare feet, this will harden your feets skin. After 3-4 weeks practice you will be able to run in shoes without getting any blister. Just try to run 1600 - 2200 meters every day on sand this would be enough. Well this trick worked for my friend (even if results may vary).

[Aolain]

Along with some others, I find the pissing in boots odd. Something I have neaver heard of. During my US military service, we would throughly soak the boots in hot water, and then give them a good going over with saddle soap, and then, mink oil. To be honest, however, this did not produce roadmarch-ready boots. Only time made a boot fit like a glove. and there is nothing more important than properly fitting boots!

Given the piss method works, I guess the salts or something or the other in urine breaks down something in the leather.

Like I said, I have never heard of it, but I guess it would be like marinating a steak! Hmmmmmmmm steak.

[voltigeur]

I try to get the insulting posts off the forum, at times I might miss one. If anyone of you, sees your post edited or removed, but not the original offending one, you can let me know. In the mean time use the PM feature for slinging the sh.. around. Or better yet, do not reply at all if you do not like the post.

[flash010]

I never had any problems with blisters. The heavy woolen Legion issue socks did the trick for me, even in the desert areas. The key is to keep them clean. I do not know if they are still part of the kit.
i got a drawer full o them joe good for hill walks ;)

[yatez 44]

You seem to forget about your feet , after a while ..What got me was that sharpe burning pain Between your shoulder and uper neck,you realy hade to get your mind right with that pain.. Once you get it , it would **** up your day.I believe anyone that had some Kilos on there back ,knows what i,m talking about.. (from what ever Army)

[Martin Scott]

Blisters have always been part of the PBI life in what ever army you serve in. First of all look after your weapon better than you would any woman and then look after your feet because without them you are about of as much use to yourself and your section as a one legged man in a arse kicking contest.

[flash010]

You seem to forget about your feet , after a while ..What got me was that sharpe burning pain Between your shoulder and uper neck,you realy hade to get your mind right with that pain.. Once you get it , it would **** up your day.I believe anyone that had some Kilos on there back ,knows what i,m talking about.. (from what ever Army)yip thats were that camping mat comes in cut strips and tape to the sack and straps all these are good and proven tips dont be scared to ask the older ones for tips the best way to not get rub,s and blisters is to keep your self and kit clean :) :cool:

[Jazz]

Hey Slivovitz

I think the easiest solution to yours problems is: get used to it...

Your feet will eventually, as you train them, stop getting blisters (or at least as many), and even then, you'll just have to live with them... That also counts for your tiredness...

You don't want to quit your tries just because of those things, do you?