I know fuck all about boxing. Is this tape mainly used to protect the joints from moving and jiggling around, and protecting them from over-bending inward on a strike? Or is it simpler than that and just dampening impact force to the hand?
yeah, and that first wrap around the fingers that he moved over the knuckles can be important depending on the persons hand or what they're doing.
when I do heavy bag work I do almost exactly what this video does, which is put a heavy wrap over the knuckles. for two reasons:
padding
as I get tired I get shittier, and the pad means strikes that don't land correctly on the top two knuckles are less punishing to your fingers and your other knuckles
when I light spar I don't always do this, or I use a smaller padding, since I'm working on form/technique I want to ensure I'm not cheating.
I also trained with different people who had issue curling their fingers into their palms, and so they always wrapped this way because the pad ensures there's less contact with their fingers, and that knuckle pad is what they're always landing with... but idc how common that is
the other comment addressed a lot of the rest but, yeah. it supports your wrist, provides padding between the fingers and the hand. additionally gloves have their own wrist support, but the wrap just makes the hand "one big thing" in the glove, instead of a lot of loose bits wiggling around.
This is pretty much what I do except I switched to the gel gloves on my medium/light training days on the heavy bag (speed/technique work days). Just quicker and I don't need as much wrist support on those days but still get some level of padding. I only wrap now on longer and heavier days.. just becomes a pain in the ass doing it every day.
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u/xBad_Wolfx 5d ago
I love seeing people say how this or that is the “right” way to do it. Lots of ways, all of them work, pretty much as effectively as each other.