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| | point of contact centered on the toe.
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| Sparring Footware
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| | The joint suffered, the toe swelled up to
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| If you train in any form of martial arts
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| | twice its size, and only pure blind luck
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| sparring, you know that protective gear
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| | kept me from having a visit to an
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| is critically important. A man who has
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| | emergency room.
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| the stones to begin a sparring match
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| | OK, so kicking wooden dummies in bare
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| without a jock on, wont be standing for
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| | feet is a stupid idea....
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| for very long. Theres protective
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| | I went in search of things to save me
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| equipment like the well-padded foot
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| | from my own senselessness and found MMA
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| gloves that I wear when Im drilling, so I
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| | sparring shoes. Now, those sparring
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| dont do a spinning kick and accidentally
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| | shoes are different from tournament foot
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| kick someone in the head, kick someone in
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| | pads. Theyre so light that you wont
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| the face if they happen to miss a block.
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| | develop compensatory habits to adjust for
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| But the protective gear I want to extol
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| | the weight and while they dont offer as
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| the virtues of today are the MMA sparring
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| | much protection, its the difference
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| shoes.
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| | between kicking a wooden dummy with your
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| I use the MMA shoe for two extremely
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| | bare foot and kicking it with a pair of
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| precise factors. The first is that after
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| | boots on.
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| I did a series of practice drills against
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| | In addition, they also improve traction
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| a wooden sparring dummy, I walked out of
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| | on the floor, and stability when doing
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| the dojo with several bone-deep bruises
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| | workouts and drills. Because of how much
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| on my feet. Now, bruises are the price
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| | I like Kung Fu styles, and how acrobatic
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| you pay for any contact sport, including
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| | they are, that extra traction was quite
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| mixed martial arts. Even a small bit of
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| | attractive. While its not fun to be
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| protection could've kept me from limping
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| | tossed on your posterior by a sparring
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| funny for two days. My friends and
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| | partner, its even less fun to fall on
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| co-workers were making fun of my little
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| | your own because you slipped.
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| tentative baby steps to avoid putting
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| | Plus, to be honest, it was good to come
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| weight on the tops of my feet from a
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| | home from training in the dojo without
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| particularly painful bruise almost a
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| | feeling like I was being a sniveling,
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| crack in the bone.
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| | whiney brat because my feet were sore.
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| The foot has so many miniscule bones.
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| | Trust me, these things have saved my
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| And almost no meat. No fat. Almost no
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| | marriage my wife was making fun of my
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| protection. Weak bloodflow. At least
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| | new dance steps when I was busy beating
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| mine do. Pain sticks attached to my
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| | the crap out of my feet and whining about
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| legs!
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| | it when I had to take out the garbage.
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| I suppose Im not a fast study. Three
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| | Didn't I mention I can dance? That's for
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| weeks later, I did the same drill and
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| | another article. My wife saw Dancing
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| just about smashed my big toe when I
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| | With The Stars and I was dragged to dance
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| mis-judged the distance to the wingchun
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| | lessons immediately. I don't know what
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| wooden dummy on a kick instead of
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| | hurts more, learning to tango or kicking
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| hitting it with the arch of the foot, I
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| | that wooden dummy!
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| did a direct full force kick with the
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