Quick and dirty hidden leg protecction

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Quick and dirty hidden leg protecction

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I need some hidden legs and I need them before this weekend. I COULD just yank the knees off my current 14th century legs and add some fanless cops but I'd really like this be a last resort.
Anyone tried hockey pants before?
Any other ideas?
Again, these will be hidden so appearance does not matter.
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Just put on baggy pants over your 14C legs.
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Some of the local fencer crossovers wore hockey pants to fight spear at Pennsic. I can't say how well they worked though.
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Blaine de Navarre wrote:Just put on baggy pants over your 14C legs.
I have nice, fancy, prominent fans on them that'll shred the clothing.
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I wear hockey pants and hockey knee/shin protectors. They're light, move well, and are thick enough to take the sting out of a solid blow.
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If you have any kydex around it's the work of an hour to make a pair of kydex quisses. I also have a pair floating around if your in real need, I can ship em to you. PM me if that's the case.
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I use mcdavid thump shorts and floating knees. Not great leg protection but not bad either.
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I used hockey pants at a couple practices just to find out what it would be like. They worked fine, I'm pretty sure I got hit in the legs as much that day as any other day. If anything they worked better then the steel legs I originally started fighting in because of the built in padding.
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I could next day you some of our aircraft aluminum splinted legs. They are light, strong and you can wear them under pants....
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Hit up your local bike shop and get some moto-cross legs. The ones I got ran around $70.

looked something like these:

http://ak.buy.com/PI/0/500/226665249.jpg
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I picked up a pair roller hockey shorts at Play It Again Sports for under $20.
We'll see how they work.
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Lucian Ro wrote:I picked up a pair roller hockey shorts at Play It Again Sports for under $20.
We'll see how they work.
Depending on the padding, you might end up needing to add some thing kydex for a long-term solution, but it's easy enough to pull the pad out, cut the kydex, and then shape it over a 1 gallon paint can. (Which then makes the shorts pretty damned protective.)
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Zoombang shorts and hockey knee's here. No problems what so ever.
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