Hi, my name's Doug Swift, owner of Enso Martial Arts Shop in Bristol. Today I'm talking about
Gum Shields or Mouth guards that we have for sale. Now, these are the cheaper version of the gun shields we sell. A lot of people use these. Now
these are to be used for sparring to protect your teeth but when you're doing light
sparring
I wouldn't recommended these for Boxing or Thai boxing anything like that. More for karate
light continuous kickboxing something like that. They do protect your teeth but
they're are there more as a precaution
really so if you're doing sparring and
when you're not hitting to the head
or very light kicking and if there's just an accident something like that
this gum shield is going to help protect your teeth
so out of the box it looks a bit like that. So
it currently doesn't fit your teeth at all
it's just moulded plastic, moulded rubber and I'll show you what you do with them.  So out of the box you also get
some instructions that come with it and what you want to do is get yourself a bowl of
boiling hot water now you want it pretty
hot so be careful and you simply just
dip it in the water and wait about ten
seconds or so and what happens is
the mouthguard will get very soft and
pliable and yes and that's the start of
getting it to fit your mouth so get
something so you can fish out of water
I wouldn't recommend getting it out with your fingers. So get it out
stick it straight into your mouth
and then, pull it out. Make sure when you're doing this you bite down gently with your teeth.  So you bite down top and
bottom and push your tongue right onto the roof of your mouth so what you end up
with is all your teeth marks and it fits
to top and bottom and also the the
inside bit fits your tongue perfectly. So you get a really good fitting gum shield and at a
great price. Cheers
