Does anyone know what the USFA's official position on manchettes is? Their web-site states, "The armed hand, from the wrist bone to the tips of the fingers is no longer target; no manchette required." However, at tournaments I have been told a variety of things: 1) if your lame sleeve is long enough to reach your wrist in a lunge position you can just tuck your glove cuff in your lame sleeve, 2) you have to wear your cuff on top of your lame sleeve and wear a manchette that only covers the target area, which can be accomplished by folding the manchette under, or 3) you have to wear a manchette that covers the back of your hand up to the knuckles but that is non-conductive on the non-target area. Each director that has given me their take on this claims that "it's in the rules".
Basically, the hand is no longer target area. Since the cuff of a gauntlet is below the wrist bone, that is a valid target area. They make sabre gloves now where the cuff is covered in lame material. Buy one or do what the director advises you to do.
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