MARTIAL ARTS APPAREL

Apparel for the Martial Artist

Uniforms are not the only important apparel for a martial artist. Having training sneakers, warm up suits, shorts, and pants can go a long way to making you more comfortable during your training. Casual apparel, such as t-shirts and caps, proudly display your devotion to your sport and yourself with martial arts emblems and designs.

Outerwear

Having outerwear is an important part of both martial arts training and competitions. When you train, you sweat. The harder you train or compete, the more you sweat. If you were to walk outside directly after a grueling practice or round of competition, you could easily get ill. Most martial arts uniforms are meant to absorb sweat, which keeps them wet for quite awhile. A cool breeze can easily turn a champion martial artist into a sniveling, coughing, sick martial artist. Warm up suits can help not only with keeping the muscles warm and loose before competition, but can also keep the heat close to the body when one goes outside, in order to help avoid both sickness and a stiffening up of loose muscles.

Training Sneakers

While a majority of martial arts disciplines require their pupils to go barefoot, that does not necessarily include outdoor training. Some instructors will try to toughen your feet up by having you run on snow or hard ground, but in the case of hot cement or hard rocks, training sneakers can come in extremely handy. These light, flexible sneakers are meant to slip on and off easily.

Some disciplines actually require shoes. Kung Fu students are required to wear Kung Fu shoes. Kung Fu shoes are generally made of cotton. Some have rubber soles, while others have cotton soles. Both types are very light and flexible, and the cotton sole shoes have the advantage of being great for street wear as well as practice.

Casual wear

Nothing shows your devotion and love of your sport more than casual martial arts apparel. It may not be socially acceptable to wear a gi to school or work, but a t-shirt that has your dojo’s name and symbol is. There are many t-shirts out there that represent the various martial art disciplines, so no matter what you train in, you are sure to find something that you love.

Training equipment, weapons and gi’s are extremely important to your martial arts training, but casual wear and other types of martial arts apparel are there to help you enjoy it more by making it more comfortable, or by allowing you to show the world how you feel about your sport.