Gloves?

[Jorge Martinez]

Anyone knows where I can buy (by Internet) somo good protection gloves to practice?

Tks a lot

[Jaron Bernstein]

I like these:

http://www.galls.com/style.html?style=T ... al_catalog

[Mars Healey]

When I'm sparing, I use lacrosse gloves.

[Justin Lompado]

I practice with plain deerskin gloves. They are stronger than cowhide and so can be thinner, giving you more dexterity and feel than you might expect. However, this does not mean you have to sacrifice grip, and that's why I like them.

[Jeffrey Hull]

This website does not say the brand, but it sure shows some protective gloves with a nice design:

http://www.aviea.org/armas.html

Thanks to Francisco Uribe for pointing out that whole website to us in another post. He has a couple translations there, by the way.

[G.MatthewWebb]

The gloves look like the Galls brand which can be found in the link provided in a previous reply in this thread.

Matthew Webb

This website does not say the brand, but it sure shows some protective gloves with a nice design:

http://www.aviea.org/armas.html

Thanks to Francisco Uribe for pointing out that whole website to us in another post. He has a couple translations there, by the way.

[Mars Healey]

I practice with plain deerskin gloves.

When I'm just practicing using my waster, I use goat skin gloves. But for sparing with the padded swords, I need more protection. That's when I use the lacrosse gloves.

[Will Adamson]

If you're going to use lacrosse gloves, try to find some used ones that have really been beaten up. They aren't as bulky as hockey gloves, but newer ones can be rather stiff and just bulky enough to alter how you handle your sword.

[Mars Healey]

If you're going to use lacrosse gloves, try to find some used ones that have really been beaten up.

We have a store here called Play It Again which sells used sporting equipment. I picked my gloves up dirt cheap. I did look a new gloves, but you're right, they are very stiff.

[Axel Pettersson]

revivals medium sparring gloves are ok for weighted shinai sparring at full speed, great movement, grip and feel aswell.

[Will Adamson]

We have a store here called Play It Again which sells used sporting equipment. I picked my gloves up dirt cheap. I did look a new gloves, but you're right, they are very stiff.

That is the best place to get whatever sparring protection you might want. I prefer lacrosse stuff with a hockey helmet. I thought I'd like the lacrosse helmet, but it hasn't been very good to me.

[Mars Healey]

I was at Play It Again looking at the hocky chest protectors with the attached shoulder and upper arm protection, but it really restricts my High Guard. Anybody here use them and have any thoughts?

[Will Adamson]

You rarely have to put your arms above your head in hockey, especially if you're a goalie like those pads are made for. Shots come up from the ice, so that is what they are designed for. You really shouldn't need any type of chest protection anyway unless you're doing rapier.

I'm working on a different approach to "padding". I'm trying to get some more upper body muscle.

[Mars Healey]

You really shouldn't need any type of chest protection anyway unless you're doing rapier.

I'm taking Poleaxe/Halberd as a secondary weapon at my school (WSTR) and I'm looking for added protection. That's why I was looking at the hockey armor. I've also looked at the motocross armor and it seems lighter, but I haven't tried any on. I'm a big guy, 6'1", 52" chest and a svelt 270 lbs. It's hard to find things in my size.

[Randall Pleasant]

Mars

I do understand you wanting extra protection for poleaxe & halberd. I just want to point out that in longsword sparring and freeplay within ARMA our director John Clements has suggested that for safety reason that we not over do the amount of protection we wear. If you wear a lot of protection then you will not feel a lot of blows, thus your sparring partner will start hitting really hard so that you do feel the blows. These overly hard blows are what can break fingers, hands, heads, etc.