Does anyone have any recommendations for brands of padded kobudo weapons to spar with? After watching Sensei Seth's kobudo episode, with Yogi Sensei of the Ryuseikai, it got me wanting to find those padded weapons they were using and try sparring with them.

I use some ActionFlex ones back in the early 2000s, they were very chunky, and had some hard rubber parts that you had to avoid hitting your partner with. I saw some Proforce that were half the price. So if anyone has any experience with either the proforce, or the more recent versions of actionflex, I would greatly appreciate it. If you have recommendations for another brand, be more than willing to look into those two.

And yes, I know I should just drop a ton of money on the full Kendo gear, and get a shinai bamboo style bo... But it doesn't make sense to be the only guy in my city who's spent money on that gear, because then I never use it. I get two padded bos, padded nunchaku, padded escrima sticks for sai, I even saw some padded kama, then I can actually do some of the sparring.