Boxing Gloves Buyers Guide

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Boxing Gloves Buyers Guide
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• Are you stuck on deciding which boxing gloves to
  buy?
• I dont blame you. With thousands of different
  boxing gloves available, making a purchase can be
  frustrating and confusing.
• What boxing glove size should you be? Why are the
  gloves different shapes? Should you go lace-up or
  straps? Do I really need anti-perspiration
  technology? Cant I just pick a pair with a cool
  design? And why do the Mexicans have their own
  style?

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Types of Boxing Gloves

• The kind of gloves you need will depend on what
  you will use them for most.
• You see, boxing gloves are broken down into
  categories
• bag gloves
• sparring gloves
• fight gloves
• cardio gloves

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• Which are then broken down into subcategories
• bag gloves traditional or modern
• fight gloves professional or amateur
• And then each subcategory of glove is available
  in a variety of styles, brands, weights, and they
  all have different features.

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Bag / Mitt Gloves

• Bag gloves come in two different styles
  traditional and modern.
• The slim gloves with dense, compact foam are
  traditional style, and the bulkier gloves with
  plenty of padding are modern style bag gloves.

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Traditional Bag Gloves

• Traditional style bag gloves are slim and have
  minimal padding.
• They dont protect the hands or provide wrist
  support, and they only stop the skin from tearing
  if you were to mishit and skim the bag.
• What they lack in padding, they make up for in
  teaching correct technique with minimal
  padding, you feel the connection on your
  knuckles, giving a truer sense of the power and
  accuracy behind your shots. 

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Modern Bag Gloves

• Modern style bag gloves are designed with
  protection of the hands and wrist in mind.
• They resemble normal gloves and are much bulkier
  than traditional gloves due to the layers of
  thick foam. The padding is designed for repeated
  hard impacts and wont go flat and lose its
  shape.

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• Many modern bag gloves offer cutting edge boxing
  technology as they contain laboratory tested
  materials that absorb shocks efficiently and dual
  strapping systems for superior wrist support.

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Which is Better?

• One style isnt better than the other, and it
  comes down to personal preference.
• Old school trainers are fond of the traditional
  style as they condition your knuckles and teach
  you correct technique (massive generalisation on
  my part). Other people would baulk at the idea of
  knuckle conditioning and wouldnt risk damaging
  or losing the functionality of their hands.

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• I sometimes use only my hand wraps when hitting
  the bag and have done so for years and my hands
  are fine. As I said, it comes down to choice and
  your views on training.
• However, one thing I can attest to is that using
  light, traditional style gloves for a prolonged
  period will wreak havoc with your timing and
  speed when you switch to using heavier gloves for
  training or sparring.

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Sparring Gloves

• Sparring gloves are softer and have more padding
  around the knuckles to protect your sparring
  partners.
• When youre training for a fight, you need to
  spar a lot. You cant spar if youre injured, so
  sparring gloves are specifically designed to
  minimise injury.
• The added foam in sparring gloves makes them
  heavier and sparring gloves typically come in
  16oz and 18oz.