Headgear: What type does everyone use?

[rogue]

What type of head gear are you all using and how hard are you sparring with it? My old boxing head protection is getting retired and I need something new that will offer good protection for a LARPer.

[MasterKiller]

Century Headgear. (http://www.centurymartialarts.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&categoryid=70437471-c50b-44f2-aaf5-483851413a85&subcategoryid=8a158be3-6ab8-4936-abba-ca5672706930&itemguid=f7e5d913-35ca-47dd-a1c3-6f066c9afea3)

[rogue]

MK,
Are you using it with MMA gloves, boxing gloves or both?

[MasterKiller]

MK,
Are you using it with MMA gloves, boxing gloves or both?

Boxing gloves. We use a San Shou format to train hard striking.

When I do MMA training, we use 7-oz training gloves (http://www.combatsports.com/detail.aspx?ID=23985) without headgear, but keep head contact light. These let you strike on the ground and wrestle and still offer decent protection.

I NEVER spar with just 4oz gloves. Those are for fighting, not training.

[1bad65]

Masterkiller gave good advice.

We will spar at times with the 4oz gloves though, but only with Pancrase rules.