Santa Brought Me the New Rival Headgear!

[fraidycat]

Review to follow.

Initial impressions: it's VERY light but it feels like it protects well -- makes my old Everlast full-face seem heavy and thin by comparison -- and it's very comfortable. Micro-suede liner and lots of adjustability. Visibility seems good -- as good as you can get without Olympic-style headgear. We'll see what it does in the ring.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[Kayo]

Merry Christmas man, tell me how it is cause ive been plannin to order it for awhile and was just waitin for some christmas $

[Down4TheCount]

does anyone have any experience with rival gloves , for the most part it seems people like them but alot of the guys in here provide better opinion than some of the people i talk to so i was just curious is anyone has a pair and really reccomends them .

because while they are expensive , they ship from canada so i wouldnt have to pay the ridiculous ups charges that us canadians get killed with when getting stuff from title or ringside. thanks.

[Big $teve]

Looks good - Merry XMAS

Steven

[Kayo]

does anyone have any experience with rival gloves , for the most part it seems people like them but alot of the guys in here provide better opinion than some of the people i talk to so i was just curious is anyone has a pair and really reccomends them .

because while they are expensive , they ship from canada so i wouldnt have to pay the ridiculous ups charges that us canadians get killed with when getting stuff from title or ringside. thanks.

Already made that mistake. My trainer uses Rival Gloves and he loves them

[Down4TheCount]

Already made that mistake. My trainer uses Rival Gloves and he loves them

let me guess you ordered an 80 dollar pair of gloves and by the time they got to your house you had to dish an extra 40 $ right ? ****in legalized crime i tell you lol .

worst part is i even email both of them telling them about the bull**** canadians have to go through and they give you the same old bull**** about " oh well thats the company we use ".

[MrZeus]

Looks good, make sure you let us know how they hold up

[MrZeus]

I think I can make the blue one look ***y

[Kayo]

let me guess you ordered an 80 dollar pair of gloves and by the time they got to your house you had to dish an extra 40 $ right ? ****in legalized crime i tell you lol .

worst part is i even email both of them telling them about the bull**** canadians have to go through and they give you the same old bull**** about " oh well thats the company we use ".

Yeah exactly plus shipping and handling so you pay the same amount to get it over as you do for the actual equipment you buy.

[fraidycat]

Something I noticed on this headgear; it's longer in side profile than it is in forward profile. Which means it's shaped more or less like a human skull, as opposed to my current Everlast headgear -- and other headgears I've owned -- which, when buckled together, are round. I'm hoping that this oblong shape will reduce the degree to which the Rival headgear slides around when I get hooked. When I have it buckled on, it is very hard even to pull the headgear from side to side because of this shape. I'm tempted to have my crazy German brother in law, all 6'6" of him, put my gloves on and crack me a couple: "Here, hit me with a haymaker and see if this headgear spins." But I'm not that ******.

We're into, what, 100 years of this as an organized sport, and 3000 years of it as a sport in one form or another, and it takes (no offense) the freakin' Canadians to come up with an ergonomic headgear that actually fits the shape of the skull. Someone's thinking up north. Props.