Gender, clothes, heat, layers, more heat, more heat..

[andym]

JusticeZro, there are two forms, winter and summer types.

[sensei8]

A nice hot day deserves a nice cool class in a swimming pool. Swimming pool classes server a lot of needs for both the students as well as the instructor.

[bushido_man96]

How often do you have swimming pool classes like that, Bob? I think they would be fun, but getting use of a pool is tough.

[sensei8]

How often do you have swimming pool classes like that, Bob? I think they would be fun, but getting use of a pool is tough.

Not as often as I'd like to because of my current administration schedule. Before, we'd train in a pool once a month. We're quite lucky when it comes to pool access; someone seems to always have a pool that we can invade, and if need be, there's always the YMCA pool, which is an inside pool, and quite big.

[Lupin1]

I wish there was a pool around here to train in. That'd be amazing. Not to mention swimming is one of the best full body workouts you can get.

[Nidan Melbourne]

in terms of clothing for the different genders, it is usually better for females to wear a t-shirt or skins (or equivalent skin tight clothing) underneath their gi as it would mean that their breasts (even if it is in their sports bra) might make them feel more comfortable.

I train with two ladies in my class - one wears skins (pressure garments that a lot of athletes wear underneath their clothing whilst competes) underneath the jacket portion of the gi and she is younger than i am. Whilst the other wears that and a t-shirt but is older (by about 10-15 years).

But occassionaly i train in an earlier class (still adults) and a few females don't wear either just their sports bra. and they feel self conscious but they still don't want to wear anything underneath.

Although for males we really don't wear anything underneath purely because of our higher muscle mass and amount of fat on our body. so we are more suited to handling cold/heat better.

[JusticeZero]

Yeah, but the end result is the equivalent of half the class training in a light shirt and the other half training in a heavy alpine winter coat, and the ones in coats being stereotyped as weak because of how often they overheat.

[Rateh]

Training with a t-shirt underneath really feels nothing like wearing a coat. It is not hot or anything. At my school almost everyone, males, females, children, train with a t-shirt underneath. Maybe 90% of the student body, perhaps more.

[JusticeZero]

If everybody wears a t-shirt, that's fine - but when I layer clothes for cold weather activity, a T-shirt gives me noticeably more insulation.

[Rateh]

My current school, most students wear a t-shirt. I have trained at 6 other schools. Sometimes most people wore them, sometimes almost no one wore them. Never once have I felt that wearing a t-shirt made me too hot, that it wasn't fair that not everyone wore them, or anything of the sort. Its just clothes. For every activity in life some people wear more and some less.