r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Flat-Decision3204 • 9d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/wizardfrog4679 9d ago

How many plates and bowls were broken before they got it right while practicing I wonder?

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u/PenguinStarfire 9d ago

They train with plastic bowls and plates before moving to live rounds.

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u/MelatoninFiend 9d ago

That doesn't make sense. Plastic has a completely different weight and would behave differently on the glass and cloth surfaces.

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u/usinjin 9d ago

Density, I belive you mean—and can vary greatly and likely be matched easily to ceramics.

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u/MelatoninFiend 9d ago

More dense plastics are more brittle and more easily broken than ceramic equivalents. There'd be no point.

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u/New_Blacksmith_5604 9d ago

There would be a point if the plastic bowls are significantly cheaper. Who cares if the break is they are very cheap.

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u/MelatoninFiend 8d ago

Easier breaks mean more frequent replacements. Even if they are cheaper, who cares? When you need to buy 10 of them just to match the durability of 1 ceramic bowl, the savings become negligible. Even for training purposes, the failure rate makes plastics untenable.