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Essential Gear?
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Yes, definitely. Ideally, you'd have one pair for sparring, one pair for heavy bag work (works for pads, too, esp. for straight boxing and MT training) and one for MMA drilling (such as mat drills, grappling, sprawls, stuff like that.)
You can get away with two sets, but you're cheating your partners when you do that, sometimes. While the level of padding in a glove doesn't reduce it's concussive force, it DOES reduce the amount of damage it causes to the face of your sparring partner.
So, if you're working the heavy bag with the force that you should, you'll start smashing down the padding of your sparring gloves and create flat spots. Which can lead to more bruising on the face. Flat spots make creases at the edges of the glove. This can even cause cuts.
Plus, I see people doing push kicks on the heavy bags with shoes on all the time. Just fucking around, you know? But now someone is taking the same gloves that they did bag work with, getting the shit from these people's shoes all over them, then shoving them in my face. It's just not cool.
So yeah, it's not cheap having three sets of gloves... but it's worth it. And as long as you're using them properly and they're of solid quality, you won't need to make another glove purchase for a while.
Mark Limbaga
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here's what I suggest
mouthguard: fit is the most important. Some guys swear by brainpad or shock doctor
boxing gloves: fairtex, twins or windy
MMA gloves: SSF primetimes and Cagesidee MMA training
get shinguards as well: i prefer twins
mouthguard: fit is the most important. Some guys swear by brainpad or shock doctor
boxing gloves: fairtex, twins or windy
MMA gloves: SSF primetimes and Cagesidee MMA training
get shinguards as well: i prefer twins
Tough to grapple with Twins shinguards, tho. I wear these for MT only. For grappling, I like Fairtex Pro-style shin guards. Just don't kick as hard unless your sparring partner is ok with it. They're designed without the padding that the Twins have, but it's better than cheapie karate shin guards or even the CSI's. The CSI's are still ok if you aren't kicking much and really want to minimize padding to optimize your grappling. They don't have buckles that can snag, but they tend to slip out of position when you kick.
