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future_black_belt
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Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Location: Massachusetts
Styles: Shaolin Kenpo (Green Belt)
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: How to put grips on a bokken out of hockey tape. |
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| My sensei told me that I should wrap hockey tape near the end of my bokken so I can get a better grip so it does not fly out of my hands. I just got my bokken on the 25th of April. |
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obiwansbane
Blue Belt
Joined: 14 Nov 2006
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Location: Canada
Styles: Open Shotokan,
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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i think what he meant was just layer on the tape till u have a kind of jut around the bottom that your fingers will hook onto instead of sliding off... personally... and i just thought of this on the spot so ud be a first to try it....
try buying tennis raquet grip tape, and using that to wrap the handle of your bokken... it might work... it seems like a genius idea in my head right now
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bushido_man96
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Styles: Taekwondo,Hapkido, SCA Combat, and I research Medieval Combat
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like a good idea to me. The sword does no good if it flies out of your hand! 
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marie curie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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Start out with the tape at a slight angle,
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wrap to one tape-width before you want it to end, and then start pulling the tape closer to strait across,
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but the time you are finished with the next wrap around it, it should be pretty much strait across.
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lordtariel
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| obiwansbane wrote: |
| try buying tennis raquet grip tape, and using that to wrap the handle of your bokken... it might work... it seems like a genius idea in my head right now |
One of the guys in my class wrapped his sai with raquetball tape. It works really great, not sticky at all.
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future_black_belt
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Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Location: Massachusetts
Styles: Shaolin Kenpo (Green Belt)
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| lordtariel wrote: |
| obiwansbane wrote: |
| try buying tennis raquet grip tape, and using that to wrap the handle of your bokken... it might work... it seems like a genius idea in my head right now |
One of the guys in my class wrapped his sai with raquetball tape. It works really great, not sticky at all. |
My sai were pre-wrapped and I put PVC tape on the ends of mine so the gripping doesn't fall off. |
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Takusankage Soke
Yellow Belt
Joined: 22 May 2007
Posts: 35
Location: New Mexico
Styles: TAKUSANKAGE SHINOBIDO (Takusankage Ryu Ninpo, Hayai Ryu Kenjutsu, Koto Ryu Koppojutsu)
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If you can't find hockey tape, electrical tape is better than nothing. However, if you can find the hockey tape, you can either wrap it around the handle in a normal fashion, or you can use the method of tsukamaki. There are sites that will show you this better than I can explain it.
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on the post.
