Motorcycle Football Armour

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I'm thinking of making Motorcycle Football Armour, otherwise known as Leather Armour. I'm not making everything from scrath, but going to use regular Football Armour/Hockey shoulder pads with a few adjustments. I'm going to need your input, like what type of fabric to use for the mid-section protection(abs and lower back), and anything else that might pop into my or your mind. Of course I'm not going to mass produce these, I might just show it off or keep it as a memento, I just need something to do.
 
I dunno, for abs it'd be something like a thick but flexible sheet of leather, and the back doesn't have a lot of protection, so virtually anything would do.
 
I've been thinking about something similar. I'm a member of the SCA which is a medieval reconstruction group and makes it's own armour mostly from leather, check their website at www.sca.org or www.angelfire.com/retro/crafts. It has plenty of information for working with leather and metal to create armour.
 
I borrowed some Hockey shoulder pads to mess around with, but the shoulder pads are plastic and make it had to put it on while done up(shoulder pads are made so that you put them on then tighten them up, for those of you that don't know). If I take them off, there is not enough protection around the shoulders. If I take them off what should I put in it's place.
 
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