Evening all
Bit of a back story to this one.
Back before I broke my thumb and I was able to attend training, I had a complaint about my gear.
One of the colts (I'm guessing under 13s) had stayed on for the adult training session after theirs had finished. His mother came to collect him as I was padding up. Being a training session I wore my thigh pads over my shorts.
The thigh pads in question were Aero P2s. Fairly plain with nothing to cause any upset, right? Wrong! The mother saw me padding up, and came over to tell me my kit was inappropriate to have on display in front of her son. The blank look on my face must have told her I had no clue what she was on about. She then made a point of loudly saying "it's awful that you feel it's acceptable to walk round wearing something plastered with the word strippers"
At the time I didn't know whether to laugh at the stupidity of the whole incident, or cry about the state of society nowadays.
Keen to avoid any controversy, I sought a suitable replacement. Seeing Woodyspin's post of his Strettons made me pine for my old set back, that I foolishly sold. A few texts and a cash plus Strettons swap deal was negotiated with Chad (who I sold my old set to) and everyone's happy. He has a pair of Strettons the right size for him plus some beer money, while I have my bespoke set back.
Even the bag they come in oozes class.
I went for a plain design, with black back so they're easy to keep looking clean
I got my initials on the inside to prevent them going walkabout into someone else's bag
And to make sure I don't upset any easily offended parents, I've kept checking there's no reference to strippers on the artwork. I think these will be fine!
With some strategic strap placement I can even make sure all the artwork is on display if I wear my thigh pads over my shorts
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