International Pillow Fight Day – Choose Your Weapon

April boasts all sorts of fantastic, Sampa Family favorite holidays.

April Fools – the perfect excuse to sneak over-the-counter AZO into Sampa Dad’s daily vitamin regime and watch his reaction when he sees his urine is the color of a sunset.

Easter – chocolate bunnies. Done and done.

But perhaps our most favorite of favorites is International Pillow Fight Day — and it’s coming up soon!

April 3 is International Pillow Fight Day. You’ll want to be at your pillow-fighting prime, so take Sampa Jr to the backyard and start practicing your swing.

We all know that good technique is only enhanced by a quality piece of weaponry.

Material Matters

There are a lot of pillow options out there these days. Synthetic, down, duck feather, memory foam. It’s a lot to consider when choosing the correct Pillow Fighting Pillow.

Memory Foam. While I have heard the density of memory foam can pack a real wallop, when I tested this I was disappointed at the lack of speed and dexterity in pillow manipulation. Memory foam can knock someone under 100 pounds to the ground, sure, but if that person is in any way wily they will be able to dodge you every time.

Sythetic. Synthetic pillows are okay, but kind of lame. Synthetic tends to be pretty soft and floofy, and the pillows bounce off unnoticed when they make contact with a body part. Besides, they are unwieldy. The same frustration you get when you are trying to fall asleep and you can’t mush your synthetic board of a pillow to fit perfectly under your neck is increased ten-fold in the pillow fighting ring as your weapon of choice flops about, an anti-fighting mind of its own.

Synthetic is a good choice for a beginner, an adult playing with children who are overly sensitive, or someone who isn’t particularly serious about pillow fighting.

Down & Feather. A down or feather pillow is, in my opinion, the only way to go. The light, airiness of down allows for huge speed, and these guys are malleable to a fault. You can ball it up so it unfurls as you swing, or hold it by its corner so all the down collects in one side creating a pocket of pillow-fighting punch.

Feather pillows act much in the same way, but can be a bit stiffer than down. They also have an added crunch and poke factor, which can be exciting.

Top Pillow Fight Pillow of Choice: a Traditional Down Pillow from Pacific Coast Feather Co.