Glave me baby!!!

[mordreth]

Mordreth -- I know someone who got his thumb broken in one of these, fighting glaive. So I guess it depends on the bazooka..

Dang
That's the first one I've heard of, my opinion has just been modified

I broke my thumb in one too, "fighting" greatsword. It was just a simple tip fracture, no dislocation. I was just tapped right on the tip (where there is no padding in the street hockey glove).

("Fighting" is in quotes because I was just warming up, really)

Would that have been a "tap" from Paulie?

[audax]

If you're gonna fight glaive, fight glaive. Don't fiddle with using a sheild. The whole beauty of using a glaive is not having to carry a sheild.

Adding a buttspike increases your options. It won't interfere with using the cutting edge.

I am not understanding the thumb and finger loops thing. I fight glaive and I change hand positions and grip all the time. Loops just sound like they'd get in the way.

[Saburou]

Become ambidextrous. Every practice, every time you hit the pell, every time you think about a shot, try both right hand high and left hand high.

I played crease defense in lacrosse for six years, so it comes naturally to me, but it's also one of the best things about my game.

[Urban]

my left hand is in the strap and finger loops on the back and the rest is just guided a little by my right hand all told i get about 8.5 feet of reach.
Thank you all!!!

Why do you strap yourself to the glaive? I didn't realize anyone did this, sounds like a dislocated shoulder waiting to happen.

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

Mordreth -- I know someone who got his thumb broken in one of these, fighting glaive. So I guess it depends on the bazooka..

Dang
That's the first one I've heard of, my opinion has just been modified

I broke my thumb in one too, "fighting" greatsword. It was just a simple tip fracture, no dislocation. I was just tapped right on the tip (where there is no padding in the street hockey glove).

("Fighting" is in quotes because I was just warming up, really)

Would that have been a "tap" from Paulie?

Yeah, that was Pauli. Let it be said for the record that I have feeble little finger tips. In the last 10 years or so I have broken 3 finger tips more or less exactly in the same fashion (once playing softball and fielding a grounder with the wrong hand) and once when a sword tip some how wandered into my plastic basket hilt.

[mordreth]

I'll have to argue that his "warm up" calibration wasn't that far off from a lot of peoples "last round at a tournament" level

[Dmitriy]

I guess one is fine with the gauntlets as long as he doesn't get too uppity and start winning tournaments, then

One design feature of these gauntlets that makes them great for glaive work, and that I've insisted on for the metal ones I've used, is the open wrist. Letting the cuff be open (without it completely flopping off your arm) allows for much more dexterous glaive work.

[Sigifrith Hauknefr]

Naw, it was just a tap in exactly the wrong spot on the thumb of someone with brittle finget tips.

[mordreth]

I guess everything is a trade off between mobility and protection - my all time favorites were a good quality pair of Kote, covered with sole leather - the heavy padding across the thumb / index finger covered the most vulnerable part of my hand.
They got bounced at a Pennsic by the EK earl marshall, I protested that they were legal per the rules of the list, he asked how, I replied that they were good quality kote with a heavy reinforce
his reply was "THOSE are kote, damn, I have to redo the rules - you can't use them"
The lacrosse gloves I scrounged were very good quality, and the injury to the base of my thumb was massive
I haven't had a whole lot of use for that particular gent since