Protection

I would've probably gone with Scarlet Johansen...

I've got a black uncut CCM face cage going spare... £20

If anyone would like to buy some 661 kyle straight knee pads I have some that I don't use, as good as new.

How much?

You tell me. Can bring tonight

You tell me. Can bring tonight

Just looked these up and they are similar to my own so because of that, I'm out.

Will jump in queue for the knee guards pk, Jamie might check em out

I will bring them tonight

scarlet is scarlet. sandra would be more careful.

Playing polo drunk is definitely a bigger issue than high sticking.

#IMO

And as for alcohol. Well that's quite a big issue really...

On a personal level I've made the decision not to drink at tournaments, until I'm done for the day (I still need to work on drinking the night before games though....) That's just for performance reasons, rather than anything else. I don't care if others do, as long as they aren't dangerous, which would hopefully get called anyway.

I decided to wear protection after playing against a drunk Bill

I'm switching my hockey gloves to some carbon knuckle dealies tonight, see if it makes a difference to mallet handling. Makes me anxious to be going against trend though.

I wouldn't worry, plenty of people (including me) use the carbon knuckle ones. I really like them. I've tried bigger ones like hockey and cricket ones, and find them really restrictive.

Which ones are you getting?

I have the RockGardn FATE gloves:

Sandra Bullock!?

you've got no chance cam, sorry mate.

I dunno, I think Cam has a bit of the Sir Lancelot about him... I'd put a tenner on him...

lancelot never got his own bird, he nicked arthurs.

I wouldn't worry, plenty of people (including me) use the carbon knuckle ones. I really like them. I've tried bigger ones like hockey and cricket ones, and find them really restrictive.

Which ones are you getting?

I have the RockGardn FATE gloves:

I got the fake Oakley ones from eBay, for £10 I figured they were worth a try. Wore them last night, and they were good. They're pretty close-fitting, so much easier to turn mallet over on the fly than what I'm used to. Despite the thick neoprene there; the tops of fingers and thumb feel slightly vulnerable compared to hockey gloves. The RockGardns look like they're better than the Fakleys in that respect, but rest of hand is well protected.

http://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/q_hurling+helmet/sortby_best_match-desc/

the tops of fingers and thumb feel slightly vulnerable compared to hockey gloves. The RockGardns look like they're better than the Fakleys in that respect, but rest of hand is well protected.

Yeah, that's the one area you don't have much protection with that type of glove, mine are the same, but I've never really injured myself there, I find it's mainly the knuckles that get hit.

I seem to have mislaid my mallet hand rockgarden, any recommendations of a cheap alternative I can pick up in central london before saturday?

sorry, maybe is obvious, but what is a mallet hand rockgarden???

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I have some Rector knee pads if anyone wants them - http://www.blacksheepstore.co.uk/images/_L6W00116.jpg
Tried them on today and found them too small for my legs.

I'm coming up to the London open so you can have a closer look there if you're interested - I'll be playing for Fah-Q

anyone got a good wrist guard I could buy/borrow/try out tmrw? Right arm.

For sale: cricket face cage. Steel, unused, comes with bag of nuts and bolts. £10, collect at London Open. First with cash wins as I can't respond to PMs or owt from my phone.

Someone's flogging a Bern helmet, £35:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread69930.html