Shinai Bamboo Practice

In our long term live in multi-martial arts and fitness camps, we use rely on the Kenpo Fighting gloves (as seen by Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon) as our main combat glove. However, we do not call them Kenpo gloves (as we don’t exercise Kenpo). This is a name seen in martial art supply stores when looking to buy a pair. Some call them Gladiator gloves. We call them, Tiger Claw gloves as they look like the claw of a tiger.

These gloves are perfective for Multi-Martial Arts training as one pair of gloves may be employed in multiple training situations. This is primarily due to it is skillfulness as pointed out below:

01 Open Hand Design for Grabbing

02 Plenty of Padding for Protection

03 Wrist Protection for Weapons Training

Grabbing

The padding is on the top back of the hand but only a piece of thick leather (and in some cases vinyl) is on the palm and under the fingers. Because of this open hand style and design, you may grab rather without apparent effort and use them in combat grappling training.

Punching and Sparring

For sparring, they offer sufficient shelter (in combining with headgear) to be used for full contact sparring. Unlike Mixed Martial Art Gloves – Kenpo / Gladiator gloves have padding that entirely covers the tops of each finger.

The Kenpo glove is ordinarily made of leather even though we have tested out a good deal of vinyl versions. Because each finger and thumb fits similar to a glove – these sparring gloves offer more freedom of movement.

The gloves at the wrist have a shoestring style lace option to keep them tight. What we ordinarily do is pre-tie these so that they may be slipped on and off without having to tie them over and over again. You may imagine how hard this is once you have the gloves on – so if you prefer to lace them up tight, you will need to have an individual that may tie up the laces for you.

Weapons Training

Next, we do weapons fighting and having wrist and hand shelter is important. The thick canvas division that covers the wrist will hold up to strikes from a shinai bamboo sword. And since the gloves are also great for grabbing, you may use them for sword sparring without risking harm to the wrist. For any individual that has expended a good deal of time in Kendo or fighting with bamboo swords, you will know the value of finger and wrist protection. Just get a pair of kenpo gloves, a shinai and head gear with face shelter and you may play Star Wars Jedi Knights all day long (providing your collaborator has incisively the same set of gear).

These are the essential gloves for our Martial Arts and Fitness Camps. The reason for this is that they offer the most skillfulness (weapons training, full contact sparring and grappling without the need to change gloves).

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Shinai Bamboo Practice Photo

Shinai Bamboo Practice Picture

Shinai Bamboo Practice Photo