i always believed that i was sparring with 16 ounce gloves until yesterday when i really looked at them i always wondered why they were so heavy, the gloves used for sparring in my gym are given to us and like theyre litterally like pillows. Ive had such a difficult time catching guys because the gloves practically cover the guys face, a jab never gets through , right hands dont go through. The only way i was able to catch my sparring partner was being on a weird angle on the right side and manage to nail him with a straight right on the side of his head, so the cheeks. When i jab i sort of feel dragged into the punch when i step in. I have no idea if there 18 ounce or 20 but yeah those gloves they give me are huge and im only 152lbs last time i checked, i got skinnier too so im probably weigh even less. It gets hard to string combos together, i feel rediculously slow, im fine with the fact that it doesnt hurt me or my partner. Can someone tell me the pros of this? im a small guy, i heard only heavy weights are supposed to spar with gloves that big.
Heavier gloves do more to build endurance. I always sparred with 20oz gloves, and I was about 140. Defensively, they do protect you more too, so keep that in mind. When you're actually fighting, the gloves they give you are tiny. Just know that stuff you're blocking in sparring might actually get through in a real fight. I personally feel the benefits to punching endurance is worth it.
18 - 20oz gloves are too heavy to spar with at 150. When i spar with 16oz i feel so slow and can't punch. i use 12 or 14oz for sparing.
at 123-130 i feel the same. but i spar guys with heavy hands at 145 and up so its not a big issue. plus like someone says works on ya endurance.
Spar: Try to mimic you bout more. Maybe a tad heavier for safety. Heavy bag/drills: Heavier to build endurance and the training effect.
i am 165lbs, in my gym we also spar with 20oz without headgear. Sometimes when i retaliate, trying to throw harder punches i start to swing too much because the gloves are too heavy, i dont know if that swinging matters with gloves but when i spar with 12 oz there is no swinging and that stuff..
I like heavier gloves; it makes sparring safer. I user 16 oz... if I decide to do a fight, I'll get fight gloves for bag and padwork and shadowboxing.
Never really felt like the difference in weight affected my punch speed much. I do know it helped my endurance, and the bigger gloves helped defensively- this is good and bad at the same time. It's good because your much less likely to get hurt sparring, and bad because you get used to having gloves that cover more up.