You can use yoga mat as
part of the blade all day long.
I've made a 6' red and an 8.5' glaive with the following progressive foam densities on bandshoppe core:
- Box: gray puzzle floor mat
- Blade: blue camp pad, yoga mat, blue camp pad
- Stab tip: two more pieces of yoga mat at the top (over a piece of armor grade leather to prevent core through, à la Arrakis' tut
It's solid, but is in no way painful; hits beautifully.
My reasoning behind sandwiching the yoga mat is because I neither wanted it to get compressed against the ultra dense floor mat (designed to deaden the impact of core) nor wanted it to be exposed to sheering/point compression forces as an outer layer. It's working quite well for almost 7 months on my red and 2 months on my glaive.
Remy the Wroth wrote:Just don't call it boffing/boffering. That's not what we do. We fight. With swords. To the sorta-death. I can't stand it when someone says boffering. Plus is means sexin' in the UK.
RIP Surt, Adunakhor of Barad'dun