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Locate Fine MMA Grappling Footware ---------- If you do any sort of martial arts grappling, you know that protective equipment is of the utmost importance. Anybody who has the stones to go into a sparring match without a cup on, wont be standing for

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If you do any sort of martial arts grappling, you know that protective equipment is of the utmost importance. Anybody who has the stones to go into a sparring match without a cup on, wont be standing for for long. Theres protective gear like the heavily-padded foot gloves that I wear when Im instructing, so I dont do a spinning kick and unintentionally take someones head off if they happen to miss a block. But the protective equipment I want to extol the virtues of today are the martial arts sparring shoes.

I use the martial arts shoe for two extremely precise reasons. The first is that after I did a series of practice bits against a wooden sparring dummy, I walked out of the gym with several bone-deep bruises in my feet. Now, bruises are the price you pay for any contact sport, including mixed martial arts. Even a little extra bit of padding would have kept me from limping funny for two days. My buddies and colleagues were making fun of my little tentative steps to avoid putting weight on the tops of my feet from a particularly painful bruise almost a fracture in the bone.

The foot has so many tiny bones. And almost no flesh. almost no fat. No protection. Weak bloodflow. At least mine do. Pain sticks attached to my legs!

I suppose Im a slow learner. Later that month, I did the same exercise and about destroyed my big toe when I miscalculated the distance to the wingchun wooden dummy on a kick instead of contacting it with the arch of the foot, I did a direct full force kick with the point of contact centered on the toes. The joint suffered, the toe swelled up to double its regular size, and only pure blind luck kept me from having an injury.

OK, so kicking wooden dummies in bare feet is a foolish idea....

I went looking for things to save me from my own senselessness and found martial arts sparring shoes. Now, those sparring shoes are different from tournament foot pads. Theyre light enough that you wont develop compensatory habits to adjust for the weight and while they don't have as much protection, its the difference between kicking a wooden dummy with your bare foot and kicking it with a pair of tennis shoes on.

On top of that, they greatly improve traction on the ground, and stability when doing workouts and drills. Given how much I like Kung Fu styles, and how acrobatic they are, that extra traction was much appreciated. While its not fun to be tossed on your posterior by a sparring partner, its less fun to do it on your own because you slipped.

Also, to be honest, it was good to come home from a training session in the dojo without feeling like I was being a whiner because my feet were hurting. Trust me, these things saved my marriage my wife was making fun of my new dance steps when I was busy beating the crap out of my feet and whining about it when I had to take out the garbage.

Did I mention that I dance? I'll save that story for another article. She saw the movie Shall We Dance and the dance lessons quickly followed. I don't know what hurts more, learning to samba or kicking that wooden dummy!

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Yoshi Kundagawa is a writer covering the mixed martial arts world. You can his free reports at http://www.martialarts3000.com/mmaspshdilow.html

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Yoshi Kundagawa is a writer covering the MMA world. You can visit his blog at www.martialarts3000.com/mmaspshdilow.html