Punches are the frontrunner of any fighter’s arsenal.
They’re fast, variable, and extremely effective for dealing damage, but how do
you protect from the damage that they cause to yourself?Putting that much force into any movement is going to have
repercussions. When your hand hits the target, the shock that it creates is
absorbed through you too on impact, and as we’re sure you know, hurts.Now the obvious way to protect yourself initially is using
gloves, it would be extremely dangerous to not use them. They offer added
layers of protection and padding to make sure you don’t hurt yourself or anyone
else too badly, and they absorb a lot of the impact too, so it’s a win-win. But
they aren’t always enough.A punch can cause you damage in multiple different ways. The
main issues are tearing the skin, dislocating bones, breaking bones or damaging
joints, bruising, and even doing serious damage to your wrists, so there more
protection you can get, the better. That's where hand wraps step inHand wraps are the answer to all of these problems as a
one-stop shop to your own safety. They wrap around your hands from your fingers
through to your wrists to ensure that everything remains tight and where it
needs to be and offers even more layers between you and what you're hitting in
a less absorbent and denser way than gloves can. This means that they help
every single issue we mentioned above! They are easy to apply and can even come in variations that
allow you to just slip them on for when you aren't going all out and are just
practising on your bag work. All you need to do is secure them around your
thumb and wrist, before then wrapping your wrist and fingers in an alternating
pattern, wrapping each finger individually.The technique is essentially:Loop your thumb and wrap your wrist several times, and then
do the same with your hand above the thumbWrap through your fingers individually using an x type
motionOnce you’ve gone between each individual finger, wrap your thumb
and then go around your hand again to lock it in place.Finally, now you’ve done all of your fingers, wrap around
the knuckles and wrist until comfortable and you can still make a fist well,
and you’re good to go.This is important as your wrists are very easy injured when
it comes down to punching and you can easily break a bone in your hand whilst
training or fighting, so these wraps are really effective in offering the support
that most gloves just can’t and they keep you going strong without any injury
which could take you out of your game for months.
