Question about pads for FMA Stick Sparring

Capt Ann:
it's enough, also in shinai sparring, to wear only hockey equipment: helmet, gloves, sth for knees. If You want to be very safe add some elbow and shoulder pads or full-body hockey stuff.

 

Try this link in the US, I am sure they can give you what you need for a better price than the Kendo Armour and you may find it will take more of a battering too. A lot of Kendo guys in the UK are starting to use the WEKAF equipment (having your wife own her own company helps you find out this info ), Anyway back on track, these guys are good people and know their stuff. I am pretty sure they can help you.

http://www.docepares.net/home.html

Best regards


Pat

 

ytou can try this combo for size: arnis (wekaf) helmet + hockey glove + elbow pads (roller hockey) + knee pads (roller hockey) with a live stick.

it encourages movement bec you're gonna get hurt if you don't but more or less, you won't get killed.

 

Shooto dont forget the cup

 

They're having a brew too?

 

We use foam rubber/plastic escrima sticks, along with karate handpads (the little ones) and plexiglass faceshields. The foam rubber sticks are quite cheap (I think we got ours for 5-6 bucks a pop at Century), and you could easily substitute fencing masks/hockey gloves/full plate armor for the rest of the stuff. The foam rubber sticks still sting (a LOT), but you don't have to worry about breaking someone's fingers with them.

 

believe me, afterwards you'll need a drink.

 

Oh the pain, don't you just love it, Now this is my favorite way to spar.
some people who watch say I'm mad for doing, and they are right
But it is as close to the real thing as you can get without actually going all out to really hurt each other and the pain teaches you a lot.

I love pain, especially when inflicted on others

But I would suggest if you are a beginer start with the full body armour, then go on to the padded stick with just helmet and gloves, then once you have the expeariance go for the live stick and limited armour type of sparring for it is not for the faint hearted and it hurts like hell, which is nice

Regards


Pat

 

you could try using helmet and padded sticks only (use lthe light core padded sticks). then you could move to ligh core padded sticks and just squash glasses. move back to helmet and heavy core padded sticks (the one with a thin rattan core) only. the weight approximates live sticks.

there will be pain. yet, more importantly, there will be lessons learned bec of the pain.

 

Mmmm, I'm loving it already.

 

sado-masochist!

all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!all hail pat for he is a sado-masochist!

 

Incorporating padded training sticks to your real stick training can be very effective, if the right padded stick is used. Often times the padded sticks are either too padded or too whippy. The result, students are unable to transition between padded sticks and real rattan without having their timing or technique thrown off. Additionally, they get a false sense of invulnerability. A good padded stick should be safe too use, but also maintain most of the attributes of a real stick.

 

As I get older, I appreciate padded stick training. I like it. My body likes it.

-B

 

I just got some padded sticks in from Manila to test out for my wife,

Very nice, the sting still feels like getting hit with the stick but minus the bruises, saying that a few knuckles were rapped on Tuesday night which is nice.
One poor guy got hit in the gonads by his son, no box :cry: Nice one Peter That brought a stop to the bout eh!

But don't you just love the sound of bare rattan on flesh and bone

Regards

Pat

 

It often suprises me how little merit some people give to using padded sticks, when they are so quick to sing the praises of using padded hands i.e. Boxing.

We sparred with padded sticks, fencing masks and light street hockey gloves last night - the sticks are the same weight as our 31" x 1.5" rattan. I got my left hand cracked through a street hockey glove.

 

never done that!

ive been stick fighting for a around a year now and have yet to use padded sticks but would love to get on a helmet ,gloves etc and get stuck in

especialy knowing the pain of rapped knuckles all too well

 

I hear you there mate

The padding don't help the wrapped knuckles it just help the pain take a little longer to set in

 

hmm sounds good all the same pat
i'll bare that in mind
what would you pad em out with ?
foam rubber and gaffer tape?

 

yup they were quite nice, bit diffrent to armour though. well he should have moved then shouldnt he?

 

gloves

After getting suitably pounded in a recent training session ...

I have decided theres a big difference between gloves for sparring and gloves for training in ...

I just ordered some hockey gloves of Ebay ..... it seems to be the place to get stuff from, although i've never used it before ...

Hopefully these should stop my hands getting beaten to crap with "hit the hand" drills