My 800N gloves...^%#^ it!

[Purple Fencer]

Originally Posted by fatfencer

Actually I think I might have a slightly better idea. Maybe.

Take the same foam you used and make a rectangle say 3.75 in long by .75 wide and use it for the area from the wrist to the first knuckle. Make a cut along the width b ut don't cut through. Do the same from the 1st to the 2nd and then again to the 3rd. Sort of like a hockey glove but since the foam is thinner and more pliable and you are using Dyneema and not leather it will then be more dexterous.

I just got whacked in the thumb tonite and thought a pad would be good there. Also my coach loved the glove but thought it may need the back padding extended closer to the knuckles such that when you make a fist or enclose your hand around a grip that the knuckles will be covered.

Thanks for making such a great glove. Its the best I've ever bought.

Fatfencer

The only problem with getting the padding closer to the knuckles is it miight creatye more fo a tabel that could catch the point.

I'm not quite following the idea on the padding you outlined...but then I just got up...

[shlepzig]

Will you be making a version without the padding on the back?

I have got wide hands and thick fingers. When fencing epee, the foam on the back of the hand causes the top of the glove to protrude a bit outside the bell (and a bit of my pinkie on the bottom).

These can make for some maddening easy picks in epee.

Shlep

[Purple Fencer]

Originally Posted by shlepzig

Will you be making a version without the padding on the back?

I have got wide hands and thick fingers. When fencing epee, the foam on the back of the hand causes the top of the glove to protrude a bit outside the bell (and a bit of my pinkie on the bottom).

These can make for some maddening easy picks in epee.

Shlep

Hmmm...not sure if I'd do that....part of the deal with teh padding is so you can take a shot and not feel it.

There ARE other gloves out there that have low profiloe padding, but it ends up being more decorative than protective.

[shlepzig]

I am currently using an Uhlman Grip-Star glove with no discernible padding in the back.

My experience has been that only in sabre would you need a pad on the back of the hand. I have been whacked about the area (fingers mashed by madly wielded foils and such) but have never taken a solid shot to the back of the hand, except in sabre. Fore-arm and such..oh-yeah.

In foil, the padding is a just a bonus, shot on the hand, off-target, nothing done. So I'd keep the padding just to be safe. I have some padded gloves for foil in fact.

In epee only does the padding become an issue, the hand is a valid target and shrinking it down behind the guard is really important. For most fencers it probably isn't a problem, but for me and a couple of other monsters out there I have fenced it is probably an issue.

All in all probably a small portion of an already small market, but I thought it useful enough to bring up.

Shlep

[Purple Fencer]

No, that's allright, Shlep....it's a valid point....but in the greater scheme of things, it's easier from a manufacturing standpoint to include gthe thicker padding.

Of course, one thing I found out was that washing the glove and then putting it in the clothes dryer shrunk the padding...something to add to the ad copy.

I HAVE taken hand shots in foil, btw...trying to parry a flick, or fencing someone who swings the weapon line a meat cleaver.