[SilverHaze]

I notice some hand wraps are longer and when i wrap it sort of limits my wrist movement. Especially chops and certain katas the wraps sort of "tie-up" my wrist making it hard for me to execute those movements.

Another problems is it will come loose after few tracks. If i wrap it more tight it'll block the blood circulation in my hand. If i wrap looser i will risk the wraps coming off after a few tracks.

Any solution for this problems?? Thanks....

[Placebo]

I found wraps with a bit of 'stretch' in the material work best for me. They tend to hug the wrist/forearm and you don't need to tighten them too much, unlike the unelastised ones. They do come loose, but usually when they're getting a bit old.

Or, I've also been known to use padded, fingerless sparring gloves instead of wraps. The only problem I find with them, is that the dye comes off and stains the webbing between your fingers. But hey, that's no big deal for me and nothing that a bit of Bicarb soda doesn't scrub off.

[SilverHaze]

Yeah, my wraps are kind of old already. Might lose the elastic. But then again, at times it wraps very good but at times got problem. Might be my wrapping style??

Time to get MMA gloves then ! :-D

[Shane]

SilverHaze, on Oct 8 2009, 01:09 AM, said:

I notice some hand wraps are longer and when i wrap it sort of limits my wrist movement. Especially chops and certain katas the wraps sort of "tie-up" my wrist making it hard for me to execute those movements.

Another problems is it will come loose after few tracks. If i wrap it more tight it'll block the blood circulation in my hand. If i wrap looser i will risk the wraps coming off after a few tracks.

Any solution for this problems?? Thanks....

Solution: Don't use wraps!

I freaking hate wraps for the reason you mention there.... they are either too tight and cut off circulation, to loose and come undone they always get ripped and tangled in the washing machine, they take too long to put on and are normally too long or too short.

I use the gloves placebo mentioned... that is padded sparring gloves but mine dont give me any colour stains... I use "Punchfit" I think they're called. Black, Red and Blue. Nothing spectacular but they have about 50cms of wrap around the wrist too, just incase you like the wrapping feel. (I tear this off)

The other thing I use is the Nike gloves.... just Xtraining gloves with leather palm and blackoutside.

Happy glove hunting!

[bel]

handwraps... immediately in my mind is him

LOL

those fingers kill

[djbcrawford]

I prefer wraps over gloves purely for their ability to soak up sweat. I don't have problems with either tightness or coming loose. Occasionally they will get a little loose by the end of the class but they are easy to tighten between tracks.

If you are finding they restrict your wrist I suspect you need to wrap them slightly differently. There are a number of different ways to wrap your hand. If I am using the longer wraps I go between each finger and round the base of my thumb. This will use up a lot of the excess length and pads across the knuckles rather than over-wrapping the wrist with continuous figure-eights. I have also found going between the fingers helps the wraps stay more snugly round the hand so even with shorter wraps I try to do one finger. Some wraps do come with instructions for wrapping and often show you wrapping up round the thumb but I found this quickly came loose so I leave the thumb free which is more MMA like anyway.

There's a number of video's of UTube of different ways to wrap the hand. Check some of them out and see what works for you. I would avoid pure boxing ones as they are designed to lock the wrist in place and close the hand into a fist. You would want something more open and MMA like.

Wraps rule!