Can’t argue with any of the benefits Suntzu or BBanga mentioned. But I do think (as Suntzu mentioned) that there’s a good reason for both pieces of equipment.
Yah, both are useful.
For front kick and side kick; with the airshield, you get get satisfying contact from the get-go. With the thai pads, it takes a little getting used to.
agreed on all counts
plus, I thought of this:
as the bag holder you would have to work harder to keep the two pads together so you don’t get hit by strikes slipping between them.
anyway, I’d ordered some thai pads already and was looking at kick shields. I think I’m going to order the blaster. I’ve used it as well and liked it. I’ll try one of the iisports models when I can take more of a chance with my $$
thanks for the suggestions and unless anyone wants to continue discussion on kick shields, thai pads or pad thai sauce I’ll probably delete this after a bit.
cheers yaawl.
hey, I still want to come up that way the weekend of 2-14…oh, smack…that’s valentine’s day…hmmm, might have to work that one out a bit…
..still while you DC/MD folks are looking how does that weekend sound?
still while you DC/MD folks are looking how does that weekend sound?
Hmm… Now that you’ve pointed out it’s Valentine’s Day (which I should have known), I’m not sure. Lemme get back to ya.
yep, understood. I had just been looking at the fact that I have a 3 day weekend that weekend due to Prez’s Day. Since she trains, my girl would be fine with going up that weekend as long as we hit some sightseeing and a good resaurant on sunday but I definitely understand the priority for the 14th.
What about a sunday bash?
Going out of town the week of Feb 16th for work.
Might be around the weekend before, dunno yet.
Would like to actually make one of these get togethers though.
We’ll get back to yah…
You know, you guys could drive up some time instead of makin us drive an hour down there all the time 
ahem…7 hours.
but, an hour more won’t make much diff to me so I’ll can go to MD as easily as DC. I bet parking would be easier from what I’ve heard.
I can agree.
If I’m going to drive, I’d rather drive out to southern maryland or northern virginia these days than to D.C. proper.
The fact that I haven’t yet doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t if we had something set up. 
Parking, traffic, disgruntled ex-kung fu instructors… a nightmare I tell yah
oso – no belly pad use here, but the big trainers vest, yes. i’ve used 'em twice, as some of my larger fellow students own 'em. they like 'em. anything by fairtex will last, and those things specifically let you handle a whole lot more contact than, say, the basic macho vests.
another benefit of the fairtex vest? shoulder movement. most vests are crap for wing chun, because you … can’t get your elbow in enough. 
the under-armpit area keeps the elbow out too much. but the fairtex trainers vest? two of our biggest guys own 'em, and this is no longer a problem when they get geared up for nasty sparring.
rub, sweet. it looked like a winner. I’ll have to wait a few months but those will be on the list.
just dropped 600 on some mats. trying to make a push to gear up and also going to do some print advertising. gonna drop about 2000 in the next couple of weeks
{fingers crossed}