do you wear shin/knee pads?

[Tack]

I don't do alot of sliding when I play, but I do drop to my knees alot in bunkers, or crawl over stuff. I use JT E-Motion pads. they are really confortable and they fit really good. the great thing about them is as you move they will move with you instead of binding at the knees. The other thing I like about them is that I have taken more bounces off them than anywhere else. I even walked up on a young player who was well hiden, he took about six shots at me. All six of them bounced off my knee pads, I spun and shot him out. This was from about 10 feet away. After the game the boy came up to me and asked me how I didn't get a brake. He looked at me like I was super man for the rest of the day.

[SirOssis]

Originally posted by pbguy888
I dont use any pads... When I slide , I dont go directly on my knee's. I go like baseball slide.

thats how I slide as well yet my knees will still clip something(and the last time was a sapling stump that I hit so hard that I still got a cut right on the kneecap through my old wrestling knee pads).

After that I went out and got some hard shell pads. I went out to Play-It-Again-Sports and picked up some really nice rollerblading knee pads. They are full wrap around neoprene(slide on... have to be worn under pants so they gotta be baggy) and also have velco straps. They have about 2 inch thick foam between the neoprene wrap and the hard kneecap cover. These things are so soft and comfortable that I was playing the next weekend on my knees kneeling directly on the stitches.

[RetroEclipseMan]

I used to sport the renegade knee/shin guards until I got my dye pants. Now I just wear pair of the JT knee pads that I got for free from a friend. Don't really have much use for shin guards since my pants are baggy enough to get bounces when I'm running. Probably the nicest pair of pads that I've bought are the dye elbow/forarm pads. They're really comfy and don't move at all not to mention just about everything bounces off of them.

[Russ]

My over-40 knees require all the protection I can give them. I wear JT E-Motion pads. They restrict movement a bit, and are hot in the summer, but heck, I'm old & slow anyways! Gotta save my knees

[walker2287]

i use some industrial hard kneepads when i play at my local field (its on a tennis court) because u can slide like 15ft on them. also when i play on grass i use some jt pads just because i have tendinitist in both my knees (ouch)

[TheJester]

Originally posted by Sir Chopsalot
i need some, my knees are always beat to hell after a day of paintball but i dont want to spend money.

yea, that's my issue. i think i just figure that i'm young still, i can take it...i just know i won't be able to for long

[cphilip]

My old knee's cant take it either. I gotta have em. I spend a lot of time behind a bunker on one or more of my knees cause my back will lock and stiffen up on me if I crouch and I am there for a while and cannot shift. I got an old ruptured disc back there. I don't use em to slide I use em to keep the rocks and sticks from eating my knee's up. Not to mention them shin shots! I got the Renegades and they fit me great. I just wish each of the loops on mine was velcro. Only the top one is. I thought they had changed that? Its only a problem putting em on and taking em off. Sometimes in the summer I play in shorts and knee pads only. Cooler that way.

[halB]

i either baseball slide or if its a snake or crawling bunker i literally slide in on the whole side of my body.

[~WarpedRT#2~]

Redz knee and shin pads. I love them. They do get uncomfortable, but I think it's worth it. They really dont slide around that much either. Kevlar fronts, so they dont wear easily is a good feature.

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by cphilip
My old knee's cant take it either. I gotta have em. I spend a lot of time behind a bunker on one or more of my knees cause my back will lock and stiffen up on me if I crouch and I am there for a while and cannot shift. I got an old ruptured disc back there. I don't use em to slide I use em to keep the rocks and sticks from eating my knee's up. Not to mention them shin shots! I got the Renegades and they fit me great. I just wish each of the loops on mine was velcro. Only the top one is. I thought they had changed that? Its only a problem putting em on and taking em off. Sometimes in the summer I play in shorts and knee pads only. Cooler that way.

The taking off and putting on part is annoying (I have these as well). It would be great if they had an easier system. Once they are on, however, they don't move too much.

[CrazyLad]

i dont wear them....I slide a lot on my knees though

[joeyjoe367]

Originally posted by shartley

That would be the greatest thing EVER. I remember nexed was talking about knee pads earlier. I wonder if they took into consideration our comments about "chicken legs"

[joeyjoe367]

Originally posted by Quiet
Never worn them, probably never will.

If you are looking outside the industry, AXO makes some for mountainbiking that might fit you.

Checked out the AXO site... THe pads look nice, but a little bit too bulky. I don't think I'd like hard-plastic shells on pads; all of the AXO knee/shin pads have some sort of hard-plastic on them.

If JT just made a smaller-size of the JT-Emotion pads, I'd be exstatic.

[pookachu32]

Redz all the way dude!!

[TimEmag00134]

Currently I use Redz knee/shin pads and they do a pretty good job, but they do start to get annoying after a while, especially in the heat. I don't quite have the chicken leg problem, but I've got my own problems. Most of the time I wear a neoprene knee support on my right knee and that really screws with the knee pads because if I get a pair that fits good over the knee support then they don't fit that well on the other knee. It works the other way around too, if I get a pair that fits well on the left knee, then the one using the support doesn't fit that well.