Buy Comfortable Boxing to enjoy your boxing experience
Boxing gloves started back in ancient Greece previously fighter used bare knuckles. Until 19 century they didn’t gained popularity. In 19th century boxing gloves gained the popularity when a bare knuckled name jack created a glove for his student to wear. That was named as mufflers. These gloves at that time were not used in championship but after wards hand protection gain importance and became mandatory for boxing. In 20th century they turned into recognizable shape and form that they have now. As training session and equipment of boxing has evolved so multiple types of boxing gloves have been developed for specific uses like bag gloves or sparring gloves.
Why there is need of boxing gloves?
The major reason to use boxing gloves is to protect boxer hand from any kind of injury. In combat sports usually hand injuries occur sometimes if you watch previous video bare knuckled boxing match you can understand the need of gloves.
Bare knuckles were only used to cover the thumb and wrist of boxer but could not cover knuckles so that why many boxer ends up breaking their hand during fights the major reason of hand injury is caused due to the density of skull compare to your hands as hands bones are delicate and tiny so that we can use our finger and hand for precise movements. Like drawing writing and catching if we contrast it with skull it only function is to protect the most important organ of our body that is brain thus skull is hardest bone in your body. So when we strike a person head with our delicate hands that resulted in injures and effected hand bones so it is compulsory to use gloves in combat sport like boxing.
Benefits
Below are some of benefits that you get from wearing gloves
Prevent your finger joint displacement- the major function that is served by wearing gloves is that they provide cushioning to the joint of your finger. As when punch your finger joints are most vulnerable to shock and may cause some serious problem to the knuckles. Boxing gloves act as a shield protection and are important.
Also protect your opponent-when you put a force to move an object it is called momentum and boxing is consider the game of momentum. When you wear gloves you will feel the effect of momentum is effective and higher. Instead if you punch a person without gloves that may result into heavy damage to your opponent when you use gloves for larger area the impact of the shocked is reduced and slow helpful in protecting your opponent.
Reduce blood bath- it is common phenomena that when there is boxing match your competitor will bleed from nose or forehead but in severe circumstance thunder bolt punch can lead to blood bath. Usually the blood loss in fight occurs if the boxers are not using gloves as bare knuckles reduce the space and in result increase force that may result in severe damages like blood bath.
Wrist Support
Wrist injuries take a lot of time to heal and have lasting effect and can be great threat to the career of boxer. Boxing gloves provide stability during the punch and help fighter to reduce wrist injuries.
Suggestion how to calculate your hand size for buying boxing gloves
If you are interested in field of boxing but don’t have enough to buy any equipment than you can visit gym that have gloves and other gadgets related to sports once you are familiar with basics and fed up with sharing the stuff and use sweaty equipment you can invest in buying your own gloves for training session when buying gloves we are worried how to evaluate your hand size below are the few tips you can follow
- Use a measuring tape to measure the circumference of your hand in inches. You can use any tape whether a soft plastic tape or metal measuring tape it depends on you what is easy for you. Keep your one hand flat and wrap the tape around your hand knuckles you will approximately get a number in between 6 to 10 inches.
- Next weight yourself in pounds on weight scale for accurate reading weight yourself when you are dressed and when you are done with breakfast
- When going for shopping to the market to buy boxing gloves always write the circumference of your hand and your weight. The circumference hand will tell whether you need small medium or large size gloves but still there are many manufacturing companies so size may varies. Usually hand that circumference in between 6 to 7.5 inches need small gloves. Hand that has circumference in between 7.5 to 8.5 inches usually need medium size glove 8.5 to 9.5 inches circumference of hand use large gloves. People who have circumference of hand more than 9.5 inches can purchase extra-large boxing gloves.
Weight is measure to determine the amount of padding that is needed in your gloves. The more heaver the more padding is needed in your boxing glove. If you weight is less than you can buy a 12 to 14 ounce of gloves if you have weight in between 127 to 160pouncds you can use 14 to 16 ounce of gloves if you weight in between 161 to 180 pound you need to use 16 to 18 ounce gloves if you have weight more than 180 ounce you can use 18 ounce glove.
Raw Materials
The skin boxing glove is made up tanned leather that is most of a goatskin or cowhide as they are flexible and durable. Some gloves are made up on vinyl but they are of low quality. Professional gloves are usually made up of leather. Gloves are stitched with nylon thread and have padding of polyurethane. Previously they used cotton batting padding but there are some manufacture that still use this material to pad some portion of boxing gloves
Price of boxing gloves
There are multiple types of gloves so the price of gloves may varies in between the lowest price of boxing glove is around 1000 rupees and the estimated average price is around 7500 rupees in Pakistan
Boxing gloves are must have if you are interested in boxing. It is not just to save your opponent from serious injuries wearing boxing gloves has more benefit for you rather than opponent. Before buying gloves measure your hand circumference and weight to get the correct size of your boxing gloves. For your ease and you convenience we have compiled boxing gloves manufacturing companies. We have multiple registered companies in every city of Pakistan but mainly in Sialkot. There are many boxing gloves dealers in Pakistan you can contact them by simply leaving a message on website or contact us by email if you any query. We will listen to you and suggest you the best dealers according to your need, convenience and budget.
