Can anyone identify these shoulder pads?

[Starbase101 2]

I am trying to find a set of shoulder pads like in the attached picture but nothing is matching up. These would be considered "vintage", pre-1982 and either hockey or motocross gear. I was thinking maybe someone here who really knows gear might recognize it and point me in the right direction with at least a brand name. Thanks!

Edited October 16, 2018 by Starbase101

[Davideo 99]

Don't have a name, but my first reaction upon seeing the picture and before reading your post was "those look like motocross pads"

[Ankles 3]

They look like a prop from the movie TRON.

[gerbe3:16 19]

6 hours ago, Ankles said:

They look like a prop from the movie TRON.

Ha Tron movie was the first thing I thought of when I saw that pic!

[Starbase101 2]

Yes, the pic is of the actual shoulder pad costume part for Sark from TRON. I am trying to identify them for a project and thought I'd try here where there are probably people who know hockey gear way more than I do. The closest matches I've seen so far are old Bauer and CCM pads but they aren't quite exact. So you think motocross instead of hockey? Disney used both in the costumes development.

[JR Boucicaut 3795]

4 hours ago, Starbase101 said:

Yes, the pic is of the actual shoulder pad costume part for Sark from TRON. I am trying to identify them for a project and thought I'd try here where there are probably people who know hockey gear way more than I do. The closest matches I've seen so far are old Bauer and CCM pads but they aren't quite exact. So you think motocross instead of hockey? Disney used both in the costumes development.

If it were hockey, it would be Cooper, judging by the fact they used SK2000 helmets in the movie.  Bauer was strictly a skate manufacturer at that point; when Canstar was dissolved and they got into protective in 1995, it was the Cooper stuff that migrated over.

Cooper did have pieces that had integrated shoulder/bicep like that.

Paging @DarkStar50...

[DarkStar50 679]

After a little help from JR on dating the Tron movie, I don’t think that is a hockey shoulder pad epaulet/bicep pad set up. The black piping or any not white piping wasn’t added for awhile to hockey protective.  Also Koho and Vic(courtesy of Rennie on the Island) were the first to use color other than white on under protective. The material that the plastic caps are sewn to also doesn’t look like anything I recall from back then.  Canadian manufacturing was still completely traditional old school in product design in early 80s. The Cooperall girdle was the first product to move the needle. 

Edited October 16, 2018 by DarkStar50

[Starbase101 2]

6 hours ago, JR Boucicaut said:

If it were hockey, it would be Cooper, judging by the fact they used SK2000 helmets in the movie.  Bauer was strictly a skate manufacturer at that point; when Canstar was dissolved and they got into protective in 1995, it was the Cooper stuff that migrated over.

Cooper did have pieces that had integrated shoulder/bicep like that.

Paging @DarkStar50...

Not necessarily true.  Although Disney did indeed use Cooper SK2000 helmets and I've managed to acquire one of those for my project, they used Jofa for several of the shoulder/bicep pads and motocross gear for other characters' "armor".  I've found the correct Jofa pads for Tron biceps but still trying to find the correct Jofa shoulder pads in the proper size.  Sark's pads are not the same as Tron's.

 

5 hours ago, DarkStar50 said:

After a little help from JR on dating the Tron movie, I don’t think that is a hockey shoulder pad epaulet/bicep pad set up. The black piping or any not white piping wasn’t added for awhile to hockey protective.  Also Koho and Vic(courtesy of Rennie on the Island) were the first to use color other than white on under protective. The material that the plastic caps are sewn to also doesn’t look like anything I recall from back then.  Canadian manufacturing was still completely traditional old school in product design in early 80s. The Cooperall girdle was the first product to move the needle. 

Thank you all for the history information on hockey pads - no, I'm not being sarcastic!  I started looking up vintage motocross chest protectors and many of them look more to what I'm seeking than hockey gear, and what you've described about hockey pads in the late 70's early 80's correlates with that.  So I guess I'll look for some motocross "experts" to see if they recognize the pads so I can know what I'm supposed to be looking for.

Thanks!

Edited October 17, 2018 by Starbase101

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Threads like this are why this site kicks ass so much. 

[JR Boucicaut 3795]

47 minutes ago, Starbase101 said:

Not necessarily true.  Although Disney did indeed use Cooper SK2000 helmets and I've managed to acquire one of those for my project, they used Jofa for several of the shoulder/bicep pads and motocross gear for other characters' "armor".  I've found the correct Jofa pads for Tron biceps but still trying to find the correct Jofa shoulder pads in the proper size.  Sark's pads are not the same as Tron's.

 

I meant as in there wouldn’t be any Bauer pads made in that timeframe, as Bauer was strictly a skate manufacturer at that point in time. If you matched some Bauer pads that looked similar, they would’ve morphed from a Cooper design. 

[Starbase101 2]

I have acquired the correct pads. They turned out to be from a Hallman USA chest protector.

[JR Boucicaut 3795]

Wow.  Nice!

[beerleaguecaptain 999]

wow... awesome that you dialed back to us to show us the pads.  I kinda like them!!  Low profile!!!!

[bunnyman666 445]

It was strange that some of the motocross and BMX chest protector designs migrated into hockey and vice versa. Heck- I remember Jofa making BMX protective gear briefly in the ‘80s.