Platinum TW retrofit with sternum pad removed pic

[mbkcoach]

Some guys have asked me to post a pic. I think it offers great protection and low profile. 

 

[gnhbua93]

Charge your battery!

[Mr Ump]

I sewed mine to the bottom pad yesterday. Much better. Now they wrap around my body and don't pop forward on top of the shoulder pad.

[mbkcoach]

Mr ump you sewed the gold or platinum?

[Mr Ump]

Mr ump you sewed the gold or platinum?

The Gold Retro.....took all of ten minutes. Seems once I got it retro fitted those wings were more annoying than in the previous 12 years combined. Did not have to even think about much less adjust once I sewed them together. 

[mbkcoach]

Mr ump I agree about the wings that is why I sold my gold retro fit. The platinum I didn't like the sternum pad so I removed it. 

[MadMax]

The "sternum pad"?... Would that be (what I've heard called) the "billow"? If you took that out, then however will any casual observer know that you have a WILSON chest protector on?

Oh, because they would ask what you're wearing now, because it's so much less bulky than a typical off-the-twenty-year-old-shelf Wilson CP... And you would have to answer "It's a Wilson, but with this incredible padding from a company called Team Wendy..."

@mbkcoach you thwarted Wilson's entire marketing plan!

[Thunderheads]

truth be told ........ the Platinum, with a wider and longer option (ala the Gold) with the Gold's gap protection caps instead, and the sternum pad removed and Douglas padding..... ....  would be it !

Edited July 21, 2015 by Thunderheads

[Majordave]

truth be told ........ the Platinum, with a wider and longer option (ala the Gold) with the Gold's gap protection caps instead, and the sternum pad removed and Douglas padding..... ....  would be it !

sounds like a "Frankenprotector" Jeff.   Which coincidentally is what I felt I looked like in a WV Platinum. Minus the square head, bolts in my neck and being 7 feet tall. 

[Thunderheads]

sounds like a "Frankenprotector" Jeff.   Which coincidentally is what I felt I looked like in a WV Platinum. Minus the square head, bolts in my neck and being 7 feet tall. 

you wouldn't look like that if the protector had what I specified above

[kylehutson]

... Minus the square head, bolts in my neck and being 7 feet tall. 

When did you take out the bolts???

[Majordave]

When did you take out the bolts???

you joke but I came home from Afghanistan in April of 2011 and had to have a tumor in the right side of my neck surgically removed that was about the size of a bolt. It was deep too. Kept me from umpiring until June. While I was recovering I decided I'm not going back to the 'Stan. The afghans had received enough of my wisdom.  All good now. No ill effects that I know of. 

[MikeSafari]

you joke but I came home from Afghanistan in April of 2011 and had to have a tumor in the right side of my neck surgically removed that was about the size of a bolt. It was deep too. Kept me from umpiring until June. While I was recovering I decided I'm not going back to the 'Stan. The afghans had received enough of my wisdom.  All good now. No ill effects that I know of. 

You just go wave an aluminum bat around during thunderstorms now and again, right?

[Majordave]

That's how I got my white striped shock of hair. 

[ChrisUrbz]

Mr Ump can you send me a pic of your retrofit that you sewed? I am looking to do the same with my WV Gold retrofit I hate when the wings move in front of the shoulder plate and I have to keep moving it back under.

[Mr Ump]

Mr Ump can you send me a pic of your retrofit that you sewed? I am looking to do the same with my WV Gold retrofit I hate when the wings move in front of the shoulder plate and I have to keep moving it back under.

Sure.....it's in the car but i will tomorrow.

 

[clawdad]

In the post above, I had pics of my solution for the wings on my WV Gold.  I used elastic so it kept them down, but still offered flexibility.  Just another possibility.