AdMITTedly not comfortable, but happy to participate
Hello again in 2017 and an awesome new year to all of you. My Chinese friends are just waiting for the end of this month before they pass out the New Year's wishes again- this time with a red envelope or two, but for us- this is a new year filled with glorious prospects (Quiet, you negative folk there in the back!) I am privileged enough to still have relatives who give me gifts on Christmas and this time around my martial arts gift came from my mother (she has actually given my martial arts training a lot of support in spite of the strain of tolerating a son that uses his spare time to kick and punch. :D This year's gift was what you see in the first 3 photos below. Ironically enough- this is what the WKF allows on their competition floors nowadays. The mitt you see in the last 3 photos is what they do not allow. I remember when I saw these half-open mitts advertised in a Taekwondo magazine back in the 90's. I have since seeing the ...