How to Wrap Your Hands

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How to Wrap Your Hands
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Why Wrap Your Hands?

• Then handwraps purpose is to protect a boxers
  most important weapon, his hands! The hands are
  made up of many small joints and small bones that
  could easily fracture from the impact of repeated
  punches. Handwraps are there to hold your hand
  together providing support for your wrists,
  fingers, knuckles, and the entire hand itself.
• Many people incorrectly think handwraps are for
  extra cushion or protection for your knuckles.

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• The handwraps are there to secure all your loose
  joints and moveable bones. The handwrap fastens
  all your joints together so the shock is better
  distributed across your entire hand. You dont
  want your joints to be moving freely and
  independently when the hand strikes an object.
  You can suffer a fracture if joints are moving in
  their own direction.

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• If your hands are loose when you punch, its very
  easy for small joints in your hand to collapse
  over each other and break. Even if you dont
  break your hand, you dont want to risk hand
  injuries that prevent you from doing other things
  in life like typing on a computer, holding a pen,
  or carrying things. Save your hands for life
  after boxing!

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How to Wrap Your Hands

• You will need a pair of handwraps. A good length
  is 180", but small hands can do with just
  120". The semi-elastic, also known as Mexican
  wraps are my favorite for their comfort and
  performance. You should avoid any thick inelastic
  handwraps or handwrap gloves, these do not offer
  the same level of support. (The gel handwraps do
  not tighten your fist when you close your hands.)

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1. Loop the thumb and wrap BEHIND the hand

• You go down the back of the hand so the handwrap
  tightens when you make a fist.

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2. Three times around the wrist

• This provides support for the wrist. If you have
  short handwraps or big hands, you can do just 2
  times. Some fighters like having loose wrists
  (for angled hooks and uppercuts).

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3. Three times around the hand

• Youre wrapping around the palm of your hand.
  Dont worry so much about covering the knuckles.

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• Bring it down to the back of your thumb.

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4. Three Xs through the fingers

• Now you begin to create Xs on the back of your
  hand as the handwrap goes between your fingers
  and crosses the back of your hand. This part
  pulls your knuckles together for support but
  keeps your knuckles separated so they dont
  collapse or break over each other.

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• Wrap between your pinky and ring fingers.
• Now over to the side.
• Now down to the bottom of your hand. The handwrap
  forms an X on the back of your hand.
• Now back to the top of your thumb again.
• Now between the middle and ring fingers.
• The second X is formed.

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• Back to the top of the thumb and now between
  index and middle fingers.
• Now the third and final X is formed. All
  fingers properly separated.
• Finish on top of the thumb.

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5. Around the thumb

• Go once around the thumb.
• Now go down the back of the hand.
• 6. Lock the thumb
• Go behind the thumbpay attention carefully to
  the next step.
• Go down the palm instead of wrapping all the way
  around the thumb. This further secures the thumb
  and locks the handwrap into place so it doesnt
  get loose while you fight. (Notice how the
  handwrap changes directions.)