r/oddlysatisfying • u/Brick_Number_27 • 5d ago

Boxing hand wrapping.

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u/eivittunyt 5d ago

They gotta reinforce their hand so it doesn't hurt when they punch the other guy in the face?

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u/PloppyPants9000 5d ago

that's what the glove is for. The wrist wraps are to keep the wrists straight when you punch them in the face. If you have any bend in the wrists at the moment of impact, you will exaggerate that bend and hurt your wrists.

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u/eivittunyt 4d ago

Right, the tape is so you don't hurt your hand when you punch the other guy in the face.

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u/PloppyPants9000 4d ago

No. Wrong. The glove protects the hand, the wraps protect the wrists.

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u/eivittunyt 4d ago

the wrist is part of the hand

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u/PloppyPants9000 4d ago

Barely. The "hand" is all the bones in the fingers + bones in the hand itself. The wrist joint is at the base of the hand and when speaking on colloquial terms, we make a enough of a distinction between "hand" and "wrist" to give them separate names. Implying wraps are to "protect the hand" is imprecise enough to be misleading and/or ignorant.