Equipping the Gym – Bag Gloves
A Fighter’s gym is incomplete without the requisite training aids and equipment to increase stamina, strength and provide the necessary protection when sparring and treatment for the incidental cuts,bruises and sprains that necessarily occur during rigorous fight training.
For any martial art that has a striking element hand protection is an essential prerequisite. When learning to strike the pad or bag beginners rarely strike correctly and will almost inevitable remove the skin from their knuckles. Once this happens they have to wait until the damage is repaired before they can start punching again. To continue strike training in these cases I make them practise palm strikes instead of punching.
To prevent this kind of problem use bag mitts like these to protect the hands when striking the bag.
Protecting the hands allows a much greater period of bagwork enabling increased stamina build-up and the combination of different punches without risk of hand damage.
It is important to note that bag gloves tend to be of much tougher, more abrasive material than actual boxing gloves due to the fact thaqt they must withstand a far greater degree of punishment against a much tougher target (the bag) and as such should not be used when sparring.
October 4, 2009 at 8:38 pm | Training | No comment
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