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Just when I thought I saw everything....a velco black belt? This is indeed a very interesting world.....

I cobbled up Velcro strips on a tr ditional hakama when I injured a shoulder and couldn't tie in back. Worked great! Someone stole it from the dojo.

NBK wrote:I cobbled up Velcro strips on a tr ditional hakama when I injured a shoulder and couldn't tie in back. Worked great!  Someone stole it from the dojo.

Probably one of those octagerian rokudans

finarashi wrote:

NBK wrote:I cobbled up Velcro strips on a tr ditional hakama when I injured a shoulder and couldn't tie in back. Worked great!  Someone stole it from the dojo.

Probably one of those octagerian rokudans

When I reported it to the dojo manager, his immediate comment was:

.... Must've been a foreigner.....

me: Why do you say that?

..... ain't no Japanese 'round here your size, it wouldn't fit them.....

me:   

NBK wrote:

finarashi wrote:

NBK wrote:I cobbled up Velcro strips on a tr ditional hakama when I injured a shoulder and couldn't tie in back. Worked great!  Someone stole it from the dojo.

Probably one of those octagerian rokudans

When I reported it to the dojo manager, his immediate comment was:

.... Must've been a foreigner.....

me: Why do you say that?

..... ain't no Japanese 'round here your size, it wouldn't fit them.....

me:    

Oh ... was that yours?

I wonder if the knot in front will still come undone.

I had a student who was a physicist/inventor. He designed judogi pants with a velcro fly so you didn't have to untie and retie your pants. He asked me to test it, but I told him to do it himself. I don't think it ever made it to market.

JudoSensei wrote:I wonder if the knot in front will still come undone.

I had a student who was a physicist/inventor. He designed judogi pants with a velcro fly so you didn't have to untie and retie your pants. He asked me to test it, but I told him to do it himself. I don't think it ever made it to market.

Nah ... I think he stole it ... seems to have been invented in ancient Egypt by the guys from Duck Dynasty.

When I was in my 20's, before I started judo and was still doing TKD, I had to teach a class every week despite having a shoulder in a sling for a couple of months. Before the surgery, knowing that I had to dress out and teach, I designed a similar belt with a velcro closure to the side of the knot on the side of my "good" arm (good is relative - I've had major shoulder surgery on both shoulders, thank you swimming). I also dropped a number of stitches into the knot to make sure it didn't come undone. Upholstery needles are good. Btw, my shoulder was so crippled for the first couple of weeks after surgery that the only way I could get a sleeve on was to bend forward and let gravity move my arm away from my body.

I also modified shoes for easy one handed closure, and timed the second surgery so that it didn't coincide with winter. Some things you have to learn through difficult experience.

Stacey wrote:When I was in my 20's, before I started judo and was still doing TKD, I had to teach a class every week despite having a shoulder in a sling for a couple of months.  Before the surgery, knowing that I had to dress out and teach, I designed a similar belt with a velcro closure to the side of the knot on the side of my "good" arm (good is relative - I've had major shoulder surgery on both shoulders, thank you swimming).  I also dropped a number of stitches into the knot to make sure it didn't come undone.  Upholstery needles are good.  Btw, my shoulder was so crippled for the first couple of weeks after surgery that the only way I could get a sleeve on was to bend forward and let gravity move my arm away from my body.

I also modified shoes for easy one handed closure, and timed the second surgery so that it didn't coincide with winter.  Some things you have to learn through difficult experience.  

Tell us about your velcro biker pants, puh-lease ?!

Cichorei Kano wrote:

Tell us about your velcro biker pants, puh-lease ?!

an occasion where "going commando" is easier than anything else.......