Better protection, better performance
Blood and Iron Martial Arts train fighters in Historical European Martial Arts, or HEMA for short. What does that mean? A lot of hard striking with swords, axes and blunt instruments. As you might guess that makes chest protection really important.
Check out this awesome review they did of our Maxiguard & Econoguard products:
QP Sport is a small company with a big vision: to develop and manufacture the world’s best protective breast and chest guards. Since 1981, we’ve been doing just that from our base in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Over the years we’ve asked thousands of customers what kind of activity they’ll be using their QP Sport Chest Guard for. We’ve always known that we have many customers who use them for Fencing and Karate and other combat sports, but we’re fascinated by the wide array of other sports our customers engage in too.
As you might expect, combat sports and martial arts as a whole feature heavily in the list of codes (see our cool chart below). But we’re also seeing an increasing uptake in soccer (football if you’re a purist), American football, and rugby. Which is not surprising given the level of contact athletes can expect playing these sports at a competitive level. Hockey, Basketball, Baseball and even Paintball round out the list.
We’d love to hear your stories from your chosen sport. Tell us a little about what you get up to wearing your chestguard and any close calls it may have saved you from. If we end up using your story in a website or social media post we’ll not only give you a $100 voucher for our online store, we’ll give your sports club a plug.
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