This study derives basic guidelines for protective pants for goalball players. Six kinds protective materials, as well as two kinds material used commercially for protective pants for football goalkeepers, were collected and their compression properties and capacity to buffer against shock were measured. A practical experiment was conducted using goalball players as subjects. The requirements for shock buffering protective materials were clarified. Of the materials tested, we found that the amount of deformation and the compression energy properties of elastomer reticular structures and urethane sponges were larger than those of rubber sponges. Moreover, we found that pressure shock moderating properties increased with the amount of compression deformation. However, monolayers of the collected samples provided an insufficient buffering effect. Therefore, practical goalkeeping experiments were conducted using combinations of the samples. A protector in which both sides of a 10-mm-thick reticular structure sample were sandwiched between two 5-mm-thick urethane sponges was demonstrated to exhibit the highest shock-buffering capacity when defending a goal. Abstract