My First ever HEMA jacket has arrived!
The SupFen Claymore.
It's a great piece of kit which I'm really impressed with.
The only other jackets I've managed to try are the Red Dragon "Horse Blankets" as we call them at our club. Anyone who has tried the red dragon jackets will know that they are very restrictive and they get WARM!! Very quickly.

The SupFen on the other hand is probably only 2/3rds, maybe even half the weight of the Red Dragons'. The mobility difference between the two is noticeable straight away.
The Sup Fen has protective plates covering the entire front and side of the jacket, even up to your neckline. The arms, where the orange colour begins on mine, are unplated and just some padded material. Now these bits are quite thin, so much so I ended up taking a nasty knock on the elbow doing some synth sparring, but that was my own fault. The Claymore jackets come with hard plastic arm-guards which cover you wrist to shoulder.
Once I started wearing them you couldn't feel a thing taking hits to the arm.

I was extremely suprised at the mobility I had in the Claymore. After trying the Red Dragon and thinking that this was the "entry level", I thought they would only get bigger and more padded than this... Thankfully the SupFen Designers came up with the design that they did, giving you the protection of plates, meanwhile avoiding excessive padding.

I managed to wear mine for the whole two hour session, sure I was warm at the end, but it was manageable throughout. The black stripe down the back of jacket is only lightly padded and allows for a little ventilation. So no chance of me passing out due to heat exhaustion in this one!

Overall, really glad I got this!
Now I get to play for real :D

All kit supplied by the Order of the Blade
orderoftheblade.co.uk

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