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Thought I'd post it here as I thought it more likely that someone might have seen UFC 80. I thought it was pretty cool that Jorge Rivera wore a T-shirt to the ring with Autism Speaks on the front and held it up to the camera. He seems like a real nice guy and he won in good style. War El Conquistador!

Question:

I'm gonna pick up muay thai again soon.
Is there a really good way to clean gloves and protectors . . . like so as to make them not stink so much?

Aspie Kickboxer and former marathon runner here.
Kickboxing is the best thing I ever decided to do, has gotten me back into awesome shape after a few years not doing anything (though I always had a decent diet so never ended up with a belly or love handles really). Going to the gym after a hard kickboxing session is difficult but I feel so great afterwards for pushing myself so much and for not giving up that I go to the gym after every kickboxing session.

I still need a lot of training before i'll be ready but I want to get in the ring one day. I spar full contact regularly with a decent degree of power, and once a week go to a session of full contact where people go pretty close to full out on eachother.

I'm just getting back into my long distance running as I type this, can't believe it's been so long as I miss the rush of it so much.

Anyway, combat sports are great. Muay Thai isn't really my cup of tea but damn do I have so much respect for the art and it's practitioners!
Oh, and I recently started BJJ which is completely different to anything i'm used to and tires you out very quickly when you spar/grapple but it's also awesome.

whisperer: i guess youll do this anyway, but i never had problems with smelly gloves because i wear bandages in them.

as for protectors... i dont really know, sorry. but proper ones should stand up to being washed every once in a while. a mate got himself a pair of twins shin pads made of leather. besides being the greatest shin pads ive ever seen, they sure are well cleanable.

If it's normal not to clean them then that's kind of ok with me too: I already went for a while without doing so (never really did other than spraying in some deodorant. . . sometimes).

I was just suspecting mine stank more than everybody else's and that I would eventually get funny looks. I guess it's just me overthinking things.
Thanks.

With regards to cleaning pads.
My gloves are normally fine after just a basic wipedown as I wrap my hands for every session. Shin guards and boots I wipe down with a mild disenfectant after every use and then air dry. It keeps them from smelling bad and doesn't take long to do. Obviously you can't put almost any pads in the washing machine as they'll get torn to pieces pretty quickly but a wipedown with disenfectant is a pretty good substitute in my opinion.

yeah, the air part seems to be pretty big, too. i accidentially stumbled upon this as i youldnt leave my gloves in the sports stuff bag until next session, because i wanted to do sessions on my home heavy bag, so they always lay out in the open.
and always, always, always use bandages. not only does it prevent your gloves from drowning in your sweat, it also offers some stability to your wrist.

with cleaning, i sure didnt mean washing machine O_O wiping stuff off, and every few months (like, twice or thrice a year or so), carefully hand-cleaning and you should be topmost notch.

I've done some judo (about 300 hours) but that was a long time ago

I should train again when I have more spare time. I need the exercise. :p

Plus I might try other stuff, like I hear boxing combines well with judo (similar stance?)

No, but it does sound like fun.

Well I do Kumdo and its funny. Better than Fencing because of the discipline and other things.
www.kumdo.com

I took Judo for a couple of years.

But that is only for sport and last resort self defense. A gun is the best defense you can have.