They have some vinyl boxing gloves at Wal-Mart for $19.99 so I got some. I was hoping they would work for sparring with my nephews.
They are 14 oz gloves and they looked like the kind you could box with (to my untrained eye). However, once I got them out and put them on, I was dissapointed.
They have no laces or velcro, just elastic. You just pull them on tight. I got the biggest size they had, the adult size or whatever, but the elastic on the wrist / forearm area is so tight on my forearms it hurts. I kinda have big forearms, I’m proud of them lol, but they make these gloves fit tightly to where it’s uncomfortable.
Also the ends where my finger tips go have a seam that rubs my fingertips and hurts.
So, is it just me or are these gloves junky? Are they good enough to spar with?
I was looking at other cheap options since I don’t have a lot of money, and I found these
now considering you might want to have the same pair to fight and spare with these would be good if you buy the 10 oz. if you have headgear and foul protector there wont be any problem with fighting with these, but make sure you know what your doing before going at full contact.
Yeah the heavier gloves are padded more and are designed for sparring and to prevent serious injury. Its probably best to get 14oz gloves if your a beginner.
I think the pros use 8oz gloves upto a certain weight (Welterweight I think ???) and then the heavier weights use 10oz gloves. Not positive though. I’m sure someone else can confirm this.
well if you are just beginning then I wouldnt recommend you spar, especially against another beginner(sounds odd, but you need to be taught what to do and if your sparring with someone else who isnt that smart then your just wasting time). If you spar with someone good have them take it easy on you.
Craig was right on whatsize fighters use what size gloves although in can be stipulated in a contract for someone under welter to use 10 oz and someone over welter to use 8 oz.
the more padding is better for sparring, but if you buy certain gloves with more padding it doesnt mean they will work as good as others. Look at the shape of the glove and what the padding is made of. thats how you can tell if its a good glove. I wouldnt use the ones you asked about. The gloves i shown are also available in sparring sizes, but I thought since you were on a budget you could use them to fight too. also just because a glove has more padding doesnt mean that it is more protective. the glove needs to fit you hand like a glove.these also are good: http://www.ringside.com/store/products_boxinggloves.asp?dept=12&pagenumber=3
just look around and pick the ones you want, but consider what i said above about the shape and padding.
Might as well spend some money to have something nicer… I don’t want to wear gloves that feel like I’m wearing pillows on my hands. Hopefully these will fit nicer to my hand.
The $19.99 Wal-mart ones didn’t fit well, there was a seam rubbing on my fingertips that was annoying, the lining kept bunching up, and my hands sweat a TON in them. Also since they were elastic with no means of tightening them in certain areas, the very back of the glove was too tight on my forearm muscles while the wrist area was loose. They would shift around on my hand too. They also just kinda looked like cartoon gloves
Now, should I hit the heavy bag with these on or only use them for sparring or focus pads? I have some bag gloves already but they are very light, is it better if I hit the bag with these gloves for a better workout, since they weigh more?
Also will it ruin them hitting the bag with them, wear them out fast or something? They are leather and my heavy bag is vinyl.
But there might be an exception to that… The $19.99 elastic-only, non-adjustable cartoony Wal-Mart gloves were also Everlast ;D
My friend was arguing with me earlier, he said hey, they can’t be too bad, even if they were only $20, they are EVERLAST! That is a good brand, they must be good. I dunno, they seem crappy to me… Plus I noticed NO boxing store sells them, only Wal-Mart…
they sell these things at walmart because people see the name and think they must be good because there everlast. also dont blame everlast for taking advantage, i didnt make the point because I thought you might be too poor to afford anything else.
Well let’s just say the $69 gloves just mean more credit card debt for me LOL… I’m sure a lot of us aren’t exactly rich here but I can afford this if I really want it, I’ll just have to be frugal in some other areas to make up for it.
I was lucky, I called titleboxing (where I ordered those other $39 gloves) and was able to cancel that order and change it so I got the $69 Everlast gloves instead. I’m glad I did, I like the shape of the Everlast gloves better. I’m afraid I would have gotten the Title ones and not been satisfied with them either, just like I wasn’t satisfied with the $19 ones. Oh well, sometimes it’s true that if you buy cheap, you buy twice…
By the way, I saw some Grant gloves I totally fell in love with but they were like $114, there’s no way I can afford that
I love glove’s cut and the brown color LOL… However, I have to be careful that I don’t get obsessed more with the EQUIPMENT than with the actual SPORT… I’m just a friggin beginner after all but I have done that before, gotten more enjoyment from buying nice equipment than from the actual sport LOL… I’m that way with my tools and with my paintball equipment, computer equipment, electronics stuff, etc… The stuff is just as fun as the actual hobby for me hehe
I wasnt making fun of you for being poor or anything, I mean I completely understand things like that, I also understand some people are sensetive about it and thats why I didnt type it until I did.
what all do you plan on using the gloves for? what i mean is sparring, bag work, etc.?
I don’t really know, because I don’t know what I’m doing, I’d kind of like to spar and do bag work with them if that’s not a problem. The main reason I wanted them though was to spar. I think I know someone who is into boxing who will spar with me.
I just don’t know if it’s better to do bag work with thicker gloves or thinner ones, heavier ones or lighter ones, etc. I kinda like the idea of using thinner gloves to toughen my hands more but heavier gloves work your arms more right?
See the bunched up vinyl at the fingertip? That stuff gives my fingertips blisters LOL… The Everlast ones I just ordered look like they have less bunch up at that part of the glove. I bet they have better padding inside too so I don’t have to feel it so much. Also Vinyl feels icky to me, it never really breaks in to form to your hand better does it?
Funny story… Today I had the vinyl gloves in my car and I gave my co-worker a ride to get lunch at Jack In The Box. He had no money and asked me to buy him a burger. I said OK I will buy you lunch, but you have to wear the boxing gloves into the restaurant and eat with them on! He did… It was awesome, we got so many stares… He had a really hard time getting out his wallet and paying and stuff but he got it ready beforehand so he could reach it… Pretty funny stuff…
all of that is preference. and also you will have to consider things you will go through(like how your wrists will probably hurt and other things may hurt).
It depends on what kind of bag work you are doing (heavy, speed, double-end, etc.)
I mean it depends really on you. you said you dont know what your doing so you probably dont have the punches down pat? just walk through everything real slow and focus on everything that each part of your body is oing. I say to practice the punches because if your just an average person with no experience and start hitting a heavy bag, you’ll probably hurt your hands. If this is the case then the bigger gloves would be better for you.
your right on what you said about the vinyl. I have never used vinyl gloves but I could definitly see that. Those gloves look more like novelty gloves to me, but like I said evarlier some would buy them to box with(not making fun of anyone, its just the truth). yeah the shape is real important and also the padding.
Actually the ones I have were my Dad’s, they have about half as thick padding as the ones in that picture, but those are the closest I could find.
My heavy bag is an Everlast Nevatear 70 pound bag and it’s black vinyl. It’s not as big as I expected, I have seen other 70 pound bags that are bigger. It’s really dense and hard.
When I first started my wrists would hurt a lot but after a week of hitting it every day, now I can almost hit as hard as I can… BUT there’s one problem area, I hurt my left wrist every time I try to do a left hook. I can do a right hook fine and hit hard, but a LEFT hook feels so awkward and I bend my wrist and hurt it. Left jabs are no problem though so far. In fact, I can hit as hard as I want at shoulder level, it’s the body shots I am having a hard time doing without hurting my wrists.
Another thing I am wondering about… My hands themselves don’t hurt just my wrists, though my nephew who has been hitting the bag with me is getting some weird sores on his hands. He is getting cracks on the skin between his pinky and ring finger and after 4 rounds or so they start to bleed. Any ideas why this is happening? Will his skin toughen up, and what should he put on the cracked skin to help it heal?
Also the bag gloves gave him a blister on the top of his index finger, on both hands. Maybe he is doing something strange with his fist or his punching. Is there any guide to making a proper fist or punching form that we could go over to make sure he’s not doing something wrong that would hurt his hands?
