"When pure knuckles meet pure flesh, that's pure Karate" - SGM Parker
Blitz rounds today. I just love punching the daylights out of an inanimate object. :EG:
I've done blitz rounds the way I always do them - bare knuckled. My teacher does not approve, and has been on my to buy sparring gloves for the rounds. I asked him why, he said the gloves keep my hands from getting hacked up.
I beg to differ. I did five 45 second rounds and five 30 second rounds of opening a can of Whoop *** on a set of focus pads and...c'mon...my knuckles aren't even raw! Nothing like year of training to toughen them up a bit.
So...all ye who know more than me (which is all of you, innit? )
Why should I wear these gloves? Is there more to it than how my knuckles look afterwards? Would gloves protect my joints from something nasty like arthritis down the road? That would be a big deal to me as engineers and computers are generally inseperable.
What do you all think?
Blitz rounds today. I just love punching the daylights out of an inanimate object. :EG:
I've done blitz rounds the way I always do them - bare knuckled. My teacher does not approve, and has been on my to buy sparring gloves for the rounds. I asked him why, he said the gloves keep my hands from getting hacked up.
I beg to differ. I did five 45 second rounds and five 30 second rounds of opening a can of Whoop *** on a set of focus pads and...c'mon...my knuckles aren't even raw! Nothing like year of training to toughen them up a bit.
So...all ye who know more than me (which is all of you, innit? )
Why should I wear these gloves? Is there more to it than how my knuckles look afterwards? Would gloves protect my joints from something nasty like arthritis down the road? That would be a big deal to me as engineers and computers are generally inseperable.
What do you all think?