Using Hand Wraps in Boxing Training

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In our next clip, what we want to talk about is some hand wraps. Always make sure that your boxers wear their hand wraps when punching the heavy bag. And it's a good idea to wear them when you're punching the speed bag as well and get used to wearing them shadow boxing and other places throughout the gym. One of the first things that I do when I do teach a new boxer a lesson is actually wrap his hands for him to make sure that the first couple times he really gets used to the proper way of wrapping them. What we try to do is, we try to roll up the hand wraps in reverse so that when we put them on, they're a lot easier to put on for the boxer and a lot easier for me to put them on the boxer. What happens is, if you don't roll them up and unroll them at a time, then you're dealing with approximately 180 inches of hand wrap that's bouncing around all over and getting tangled as you're trying to put it on so we feel it's a lot easier and you'll get a lot tighter wrap if you've actually got the hand wraps rolled in reverse. I'll give you an example here of what we're going to do. These are what we call the Mexican hand wraps. They're slightly elastic so you get a lot better fit with them and they're a little bit longer than the average hand wrap. They're 180 inches which is basically, of course, fifteen feet. So you get a good wrap on your knuckles, on your thumb and on your wrist. Once you loop that over the thumb and you go this side down, what we're going to do is go around the wrist about four times and see, keep it right close to your hand. Then from there we're going to work our way up to these big knuckles, keeping your fingers spread. If you don't spread your fingers, when you're done it will be too tight. If you spread your fingers, then relax them later, you'll have a nice snug fit. Go around the knuckles about four times, go half way around the thumb from top to bottom, from bottom to top go half way around again, back to those big knuckles three or four times. We're going to do the thumb twice. We're going to make a nice cradle for that thumb to sit in. Half way up from the bottom, around the thumb, half way from the top, then we're going to go back up to those big knuckles again, that's the most important part, three, four times. And then from there we're going to go back down to the wrist, we're going to loop it over that thumb, back down to the wrist, secure it on the wrist. That way you've got plenty of protection around your wrist, you've got good protection around your knuckles and your thumb, you can still move your thumb but it's not like flopping around in the breeze. So you've got a good support for your thumb area. That's a good proper hand wrap.

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