Martial Arts Equipment

Welcome to UniGear, we are suppliers of martial arts equipment to both retail and trade customers. We also offer special discounts to instructors and clubs. We don't have a shop, all of our sales are through our website, www.unigear.co.uk, or by telephone order from our catalogue. From our warehouse in midlands, we pride ourselves on our prompt delivery within the mainland UK and shortly, the rest of the world.

We stock an extensive range of martial arts equipment, suitable for either training or competition includes karate suits, judo suits, genuine leather boxing gloves, semi contact gloves, bag gloves, grappling gloves, cobra gloves, focus pads, punch bags, karate mitts and karate boots. In addition we have a full range of boil and bite gum shields, head guards, shin and groin guards and a full range of body protection. We also supply training aids and weapons such as kubotan, nunchucks, tonfa and eagle catcher. Although at present we specialise in equipment for karate and judo, in the future we intend to stock martial arts equipment used in other disciplines such as, kung fu, ninja, taekwondo, itf taekwondo, kick boxing, ju jitsu, tai chi and many others.

All of our martial arts equipment is produced from top quality materials and the majority is sold under our own, UniGear or UniGi brand. We are always on the lookout for new products to add to our range.

UniGear Ltd. is owned by 2 partners, David O'Bryan and Tony Arnold. It all started 15 years ago when David, a black belt karate instructor who has years of experience within the martial arts, became frustrated with the availability and poor quality of martial arts equipment on the market at that time. His soloution was to start his own business, Contact Sports. Initially setup to supply products to his own students and other instructors in the area, the business quickly became established as an important supplier within the sector. UniGear was founded, importing high quality products at a fraction of the cost. Shortly after this David designed a range of protection equipment made from Polyurethane (PU) Foam, and this is where he met Tony Arnold. Tony ran a business, Complexia, who specialised in the manufacture of this type of product and within a short time, the range consisting of a head guard, groin guard and shin pads, was completed and in the market place. The association between David and Tony then grow over the next 12 years and eventually they decided to consolidate their interests by forming Contact Sports Ltd., which was a website based supplier of martial arts.

In August 2006 the business was relaunched under the new name of UniGear Ltd. to bring it in line with the branding and to allow it to expand its interests outside the field of martial arts supplies.