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ESA-Shotokan
Orange Belt
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:20 am Post subject: Gumshields |
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One thing that bothers me during hard kumite is ensuring my gum shield doesn't fly out?
What do you people do to combat this problem? If I kiai, it has to be with teeth together or else the gumshield will hit jodan before my fist does!!
Is a double sided gumshield better? |
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Goju1
Blue Belt
Joined: 04 Jul 2003
Posts: 266
Location: Coronado CA
Styles: IOGKF Goju Ryu
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| Never had a problem with this, just change your kiai for sparring (the only time we absolutely have to kiai during sparring is for gradings anyway) |
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Rich_2k3
Red Belt
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 778
Location: United Kingdom, Leicestershire
Styles: Trodai Karate
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Just sort of growl or shout in ur breath, u dont need to kiai.
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ESA-Shotokan
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Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject: Kiai |
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Hmmm doesn't help a lot as my kiai tends to throw people off a lot, especially in freestyle, so I use it to that effect. 
I'll have to work on something. |
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tommarker
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Joined: 22 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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is the mouthpiece well formed to your teeth?
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ESA-Shotokan
Orange Belt
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: Gumshield |
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| tommarker wrote: |
| is the mouthpiece well formed to your teeth? |
Yes. If I move about and the such, it will stay in, even with my mouth open but once I go into full attack mode, it will pop out about 50% of the time, so hence a distraction. |
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aefibird
Black Belt
Joined: 26 Oct 2003
Posts: 4416
Location: UK
Styles: Past and present: 2 styles of Karate, TKD, Aikido, Wing Chun, some Tai Chi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, maybe you ought to think about trying another sort.
I've had to get my dentist to make one for me, as gumshields that seemed to fit really well when I wasn't sparring just lost all their effectiveness when I was going full whack. They tended to pop out unless I kept my jaws claped shut together (which is not a good thing to have to do).
The one I've had made for me is great, and going to collect it was one of the few times in my life that I haven't utterly hated going to the dentists!! 
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ESA-Shotokan
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Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: Dentist |
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Yeah the dentist option may be the one to go for, despite it being £40!! Got to be worth a try.
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Ripper
Orange Belt
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
Posts: 150
Location: Netherlands
Styles: Shotokan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:20 am Post subject: |
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The thing I do, is to heat it up in hot water. It gets weak and while it is still warm I put it in my mouth so it forms to my teeth.
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ESA-Shotokan
Orange Belt
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject: Gumshield |
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Yeah I did that with the hot water-thing but the gum shield still pops out. The one I bought had to be hot-water moulded to start.
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