People doing pad/bag work with MMA gloves?

i don't like it when i am working the clinch and these guys have the mma gloves. they start to grab my wrist and its harder for me to pull out when i have 18 oz gloves and they have are trapping my arm with their mma gloves
 
when i see someone with mma gloves i think "inexperience" and "young and dumb"
 
I use the mma style for bag work, but I ALWAYS have wraps on. I use my 16oz gloves too, but they don't fit in my gear bag well, so I ususally reserve them for sparring nights.

I actually had a teacher, a savate teacher at Concordia in Montreal say wraps are for poseurs.
I came too 1st class, with my hand wrapped, mouth piece and all that. There was only one other experienced kickboxer there, and he had wraps too. One of the new students asked about them,and the teacher said that "they;re detrimental. They don't allow your hands to get stronger and the only reason we ware them is to look cool".

Fuckin dick.

Of course, theres all these newbs hitting a 200 lb bag and coming to class the next days complaining of sore wrists, knuckles etc. All of them except me and the other guy. And of course jack-ass just told them to suck it up, even though there were probably a few with real concerns for their health.
 
Yup..shit I wrap my hands with long ass mexican wraps and still managed to break a small bone in my wrist a while back
 
I can see it doing it once and a while to simulate hitting for a street encounter.
 
redrum said:
I use the mma style for bag work, but I ALWAYS have wraps on. I use my 16oz gloves too, but they don't fit in my gear bag well, so I ususally reserve them for sparring nights.

I actually had a teacher, a savate teacher at Concordia in Montreal say wraps are for poseurs.
I came too 1st class, with my hand wrapped, mouth piece and all that. There was only one other experienced kickboxer there, and he had wraps too. One of the new students asked about them,and the teacher said that "they;re detrimental. They don't allow your hands to get stronger and the only reason we ware them is to look cool".

Fuckin dick.

Of course, theres all these newbs hitting a 200 lb bag and coming to class the next days complaining of sore wrists, knuckles etc. All of them except me and the other guy. And of course jack-ass just told them to suck it up, even though there were probably a few with real concerns for their health.
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what a horrible story man :( at least you didnt get injured
 
owgpchamp2015 said:
it toughens you to point where you become a machine of war, i should know
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why should you know...? i cant tell if youre being serious or being sarcastic
 
I've very much a n00b when it comes to striking. I only have a pair of 7oz MMA training gloves, which we use in CSW proactice to improve our grappling (you have to be quicker when the other guy can punch). They are supposed to have the same shock dispersing capabilities as a 16oz. I am skeptical of that claim, but they do feel much nicer than MMA gloves.

I use them for basically everything since it is all I have. When boxing I'll borrow a pair of boxing gloves; although, sometimes when just doing glovework I'll use the small ones. My hands feel much heavier when wearing the regular gloves, I do know that. The mma training gloves were a large investment on my part, so I try to get as much use as I can out of them. Are these much worse than just wraps or bag gloves when hitting the bag?
 
owgpchamp2015 said:
who are you? you dont know who i am or what i can do, im a destroyer.
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this guy already got banned after only 9 posts.. thats gotta be a record
 
i actually have begun to wear mma gloves more often than wearing bag gloves. why? it trains my hand and body more efficiently. i've done a lot of stand up and find it wise if you feel you will need your skills outside the set of using big boxing gloves. some say why not just punch the bag bareknuckle if you're preparing for the street? well get a clue. one still needs some protection in training most of the time.

pros-
trains your wirst correctly
forces you to make a fist
less padding
no wrist support
no thumb support
more realistic for the street
trains your fist for impact
 
You know it really annoys me, when I see people wear MMA gloves because their is so few times to wear them. When your sparing the object is not to injure yourself or your training partner while learning and improving your skills at the same time. Cuts, KO's and really sloppy punches tend to happen when you wear MMA gloves. Wearing MMA gloves for bagwork is an excellent way to break your hand or injure your wrist. I like wraps but sometimes I feel they give your wrist a false sense of security. SOmetimes I will just hit the bag lightly with MMA gloves because after you train with 16oz gloves all the time and you put on "four oz baby gloves that do nothing but protect the knuckles" as Joe Rogan would say you feel like a prime Vitor because your hands are so damn fast and dont tire out easily. But for focus mitts usually I like MMA gloves. I think they just make you a little bit more of an accurate puncher and its low impact anyway so you dont really have to worry about hand injuries. When I do thai pads I like regular 16oz gloves. I dont usually like thai pads as much as focus mitts though. When I see guys usually wearing MMA gloves for anyhting I usually either think that the guy is a noob, an idiot or a retard because the same guy that wears MMA gloves to hit the bag is the same guy who talks about armbars, CHuck Liddell and tries to throw his 1-2 punch as harrd as he can rather than work pivots, angles, stepoffs, combonations or anything that actually matters and they usually puch like girls anyway. Once you break your hands and they start to get brittle you cant go back. As for the arguement of fights in the street, I dont like having them but it only takes me or anyone else I know who seriously trains standup one maybe two punches to win a street fight
 
I wrap my hands and use 16 oz. gloves when I hit the bags. I will break knuckles with 4 oz. on if I got too long. Plus with the 16 oz. gloves on when it comes time to fight in 4 oz. gloves you're fists are flying. I think the heavier gloves reduce injury and build shoulder/arm strength.
 
peregrine said:
i actually have begun to wear mma gloves more often than wearing bag gloves. why? it trains my hand and body more efficiently. i've done a lot of stand up and find it wise if you feel you will need your skills outside the set of using big boxing gloves. some say why not just punch the bag bareknuckle if you're preparing for the street? well get a clue. one still needs some protection in training most of the time.

pros-
trains your wirst correctly
forces you to make a fist
less padding
no wrist support
no thumb support
more realistic for the street
trains your fist for impact
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The only thing it will train your wrist for is too have a cast on it when you break the small metacarpels in it
 
BullHogGrande said:
I wrap my hands and use 16 oz. gloves when I hit the bags. I will break knuckles with 4 oz. on if I got too long. Plus with the 16 oz. gloves on when it comes time to fight in 4 oz. gloves you're fists are flying. I think the heavier gloves reduce injury and build shoulder/arm strength.
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Very true...pad and bag work and not to mention sparring is CRAZY with 16 oz.
 
TapSD said:
The only thing it will train your wrist for is too have a cast on it when you break the small metacarpels in it
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when will i break those?
 
I wrap and use MMA gloves, I've done so for a few years now and I don't believe it has hindered my training significantly. I use Harbinger bag gloves, they've got a closed palm and a double wrap. I find that using my gloves in conjunction with wraps provides good wrist support and I feel it has helped improve my punching accuracy.

If using wraps in conjunction with MMA gloves for strict Muay Thai, the only real downside I can see is having to overcome the akwardness in clinching with a Queensbury style glove.

If it means anything, before making the transition to Muay Thai, I practiced Shotokan for about 8 years, so my knuckles have had some form of conditioning before. I purchased MMA gloves long before doing any Muay Thai, and when I started out, I didn't feel like shelling out $80 just for a pair of gloves that I would only use just for pad/bagwork.
 
peregrine said:
i actually have begun to wear mma gloves more often than wearing bag gloves. why? it trains my hand and body more efficiently. i've done a lot of stand up and find it wise if you feel you will need your skills outside the set of using big boxing gloves. some say why not just punch the bag bareknuckle if you're preparing for the street? well get a clue. one still needs some protection in training most of the time.

pros-
trains your wirst correctly
forces you to make a fist
less padding
no wrist support
no thumb support
more realistic for the street
trains your fist for impact
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YOu give some of the worst advice on sherdog.

People who wear mma gloves to train are not very smart. Why risk the chance of damaging your hands by not wearing protection on them?
As far as simulating the conditions of the streets LMFAO. I imagine all these little middle class white boys really need to simulate the conditions of the mean streets of the 400 k suburbs they are living in with their mommy and daddy. Give me a fucking break
 
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