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I'm looking for some gloves for heavy list SCA fighting that will replace the hockey gloves I have. Will these pass marshal for heavy list? Has anyone every dealt with these folks? Good, Bad, OK?

http://www.zenwarriorarmory.com/catalog ... egory%3D41

I doubt they will. Looks like there is much less padding than a hockey glove. Basically it's a glove with maybe 1/4" Minicell / PVA foam over the fingers.

Those gloves are for fencing and wouldn't offer enough protection for heavy fighting. It is a reliable company in my experience.

Well shoot. Hockey gloves are so bloody expensive around here and we have to make them look like something other than hockey gloves.

It is good to know they are reliable folks to deal with. If I ever take up fencing I'll have to make an order with them.

The quality is good for the money but they don't offer enuff protection for the heavy list. they might be a valid option under demi gauntlets while looking a bit better then the mylec gloves often found with EGG gauntlets.

Even if they would pass, I would not trust my hands to anything other than a rigid gauntlet for protection. Not worth the risk.

Those are for Cut & Thrust only. Even then, there are a few gaps that you don't notice until you get hit in them (and believe me, then you notice!).
I would maybe use them under a set of clam shells, or even finger gaunts made to fit them. But by themselves? You will be getting an x-ray...