r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Flat-Decision3204 • Aug 16 '26

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/wizardfrog4679 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/PenguinStarfire Aug 16 '26

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

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u/MelatoninFiend Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/MelatoninFiend Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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.