Nice , those are all pretty good . Except the Bolton one , lol . <| sep |> There are places where you pay to go into a house and throw paint around , and other places where you can pay to destroy a car with a sledgehammer . Good shit , but probably really expensive . <| sep |> I have always heard that their competition bars are very sharp , and I saw a Facebook post a year or so ago talking about getting a new shipment of bars or whatever , and the new competition bars had been made to be sharper than ever , specifically to provide a secure grip for competition . But the only Uesaka competition bar I ' ve touched was a women ' s bar , and it felt like denim . I don ' t know what that would actually be like to lift on daily though , whether the ' denser ' but softer , more sandpaper like knurl would end up ripping the hands up more than a ' sparser ' more sawtooth knurl . I ' m thinking probably not . I have always heard that ZKC bars have the softest knurl , and that appeals to me . My hands get really beat up even from my Pendlay bar due to my skin condition . So I ' m more than happy to use a really smooth knurl with a ton of chalk . But a lot of Zhang Kong ' s products don ' t seem to really hold up in terms of quality over a long period of time , and I have no convenient way of getting one where I live for a decent price and with any hope of warranty support . So taking all that into consideration , a Uesaka training bar interests me the most , but I can ' t afford that !