Hi Folks I have just started in a boxing gym and I have a quick question about gloves. When we do a bit of technical stuff in pairs we wear 14/16 oz gloves, however when we did some drills on the heavy bags we were told to switch gloves and we used very light gloves (not sure of weight but there is not much padding there). I thought nothing of it until I got home and done some reading up on it and many seemed to say that you should also use 14/16 oz to save your hands in the long run. They also suggested that youd be mad to work on a heavy bag without hand wraps as your hands will bust up if you plan to keep at boxing over some years. Are hand wraps a must in your opinion? Conclusion: Should I buy a pair of gloves (16 oz) for sparring (when I get to that stage)? And a different pair for the heavy bag? Does that mean you develop two types of biomechanics when punching due to the different weights? Or should I just get a pair of 16 oz for both? I was thinking over purchasing these? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Authentic-RD...=boxing+gloves thanks in advance meolag
Just get the 16 oz boxing gloves and wraps, best protection for your hands working on the bag and sparring with others. The only difference I feel when switching to lighter gloves is that my hands move faster, which you easily adjust to. Don't need to get anything special, I just use an Everlast pair cause they will get beat up over time from training. Mine have lasted pretty well over the past 6-7 months with a good amount of use and weren't expensive at all. http://www.amazon.com/Everlast-Styl...318999&sr=8-1&keywords=everlast+boxing+gloves
Thanks for the reply. I was just doing a bit of research before i read your reply and it sounds like the mexican-style wraps are the ones to go for. Ill give them a shot and see how i go. Cheers again.
The problem with a lot of the larger gloves, especially with the attached thumbs, is that you cannot make a proper fist. You can't close it tightly. You may have extra padding on your knuckles, but you can really damage your hand by not having a tight fist. The way you wrap your hands can also affect this, so be careful with using longer wraps. The temptation is to wrap heavily around the knuckles but this makes it harder to make a fist. When wrapping your hands, make sure of your wrists and get the base of your thumb. That is the foundation of a tight fist. Then make X's across the back of your hand because that keeps the small bones tight. Wraps around and across your knuckles are also wraps across and around your palm and then it is hard to close your fist. Last, pay attention to which part of your fist the punches are landing on. If your punches are landing on the two outside knuckles, you are slapping with your punches and you will damage those knuckles, no question.
Thanks for the advice on the wrappings. Helps alot. Funny you should say that the outside knuckles. I was on the heavy bag in the gym the last two days and i noticed the outside knuckles on my right hand (Im southpaw so my jab) were hurting a little. I think it could be my half-baked attempts at throwing hooks that could be doing :think. Meolag
If you are lifting the elbow before you throw it, probably. When you throw your hook- shadowboxing, not hitting anything- keep this in mind. The punch starts with the thumb up but it finishes with the knuckle of the index finger on the hand you are punching with touching the opposite shoulder. So you are turning it over. Could be off your jab, too, again, if you are lifting the elbow before the punch.
Thanks for advice. Im going down to the boxing club tomorrow so i will try out these tips. After playing football for so many years and taking all the skills for granted, its fun ( and fustrating) to start a sport completely from scratch. Footwork, jabs, hooks, gloves, wraps..... So much to learn, so little time:shock:
I only started boxing 18months ago I bought two pairs of gloves 16's for sparring and 10's for all pad and bag work. Within 6 months my hands were starting to feel it. The better you get the harder and faster you punch so your hands need protecting. The index knuckle on my left hand ended with a cyst growing on the bone and couldn't punch properly for nearly 8 weeks. Now I only use 16's for everything. I use these Adidas ones that are really compact they don't look like 16's but there great. Also when it comes to fight time and you put 10's on after only wearing the bigger gloves for so long I personally love the feeling of it
Grey covered lots of good points, as usual. Personally, I rotate between 16 and 14 depending where my focus is at certain points of training. For the most part, 16 for heavy bag, 14 for pads, 14-16 depending on type of sparring Never used lighter for heavy contact
Get bag mitts for hitting the bags but keep your hands wrapped well or just get winnings one pair does plenty
