Ok we have all bought equipment for the sport and it’s either been a bad product or not lasted, so the aim of this post is to try and identify the best in each field to save us all wasting money etc.. Although I appreciate everyone has different tastes and preferences, some of these products are well know to be better and for that reason used by many people training. Gloves = Cleto Reyes or twins/fairtex/windy if on a budget! Feet protectors = TopTen Shin protectors = Fairtex Head Guards = Topten/Twins/fairtex Kickboxing trousers = Blitz Hand wraps = Twins/Fairtex Gum Shield = shock doctor/Wipps Practice Pads = Thai style Twins/Fairtex Focus Mitts = Twins/Fairtex Do you agree/disagree if so why and what do you consider to be better? is there anything else that needs to be added to the list?
Gloves= Twins or Possibly Windy Feet Protectors= They are all crap but if I had to choose....Fairtex Shin Protectors= Nationman for Elastic, Twins for Thai Style, Rogue for MMA style Head Guard= Twins Kickboxing Trousers (when forced to wear them)= Twins Hand Wraps= Twins Gun shield= Shock Doctor Gel max Thai Shields= Twins Focus Mitts= Twins For the record I find Top Ten and Fairtex to be vastly overrated and overpriced. Contrary to the above I am not a Twins fanboy, but I have tried pretty much everything else and only twins cut it for me.
Can't comment on much of the equipment there, but i've found my fairtex gloves a much better fit than the twins a couple of my mates have. but that's just personal opinion. in terms of hand wraps, despite owning some twins wraps i use my mtgs much more as i find the twins have a short velcro attach strip, so the excess velcro hooks end up flapping about everywhere. again, that's personal conjecture mainly based on my "right big 'ands" and scrawny childlike wrists.
Gloves= I use TWINS 16oz to train and KING 10oz lace ups to fight in Feet Protectors= Adidas' new ones. WAY better than top ten! Shin Protectors= Any generic cloth ones to train in, SAP to compete in Head Guard= TWINS to spar/train Kickboxing Trousers= Just the club trousers. Anything loosely cut with lots of room Hand Wraps= Lonsdale (I always put a band of athletic tape round the knuckles and wrists whatever pair i'm wearing. Gun shield= OPRO Custom (Dentist moulded) Thai Shields= Twins by far (Though we don't use twins ones!) Focus Mitts= I quite like ProBox pads