I guess I hadn’t considered the rules in other federations allowing people to use bags/slippers for knee sleeves, I forget that anyone other than USAPL even bothers with knee sleeves. I wouldn’t be able to take my sleeves on and off between sets, because once I get any kind of a pump into my legs and a little bit of sweat, it gets tremendously harder to put on the sleeves. It would be interesting to see how much resistance there is if I tried to cram on an XS or XXS with the help of bags and two other people. I kind of suspect that there wouldn’t be that much additional benefit and that 10kg is approaching the upper limit of what the material will deform to and still have elasticity. If I can get ahold of a tiny pair that someone doesn’t mind me potentially ruining, I’ll definitely do a part 2. I imagine that if I could manage to go down an additional size or two it would probably add even more, but I just couldn’t ever imagine it coming anywhere near doubling the resistance of what I was wearing in the video.
I have a pair of the new black yellow jackets with the yellow X across the front. Part of the problem may be that they aren’t as durable and got little tears in the neoprene. I can feel many small vertical tears in the middle layer of the sleeve, so maybe they just became less supportive as I tore them. Which may mean that the material is just as supportive, but not as durable.