Primetime level 4 MMA gloves- My impressions.

**Anna Kovacs** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:00pm

So, MMA sparring is pretty much a necessity for anyone that wants to consider themselves a complete martial artist. I see a lot of people that just throw on some 4 ouncers and go at it like that. The problem is this seems to make people almost completely unwilling to hit eachother with any real force. The standup aspect turns into a little slippity slap exchange until finally one person bull rushes through the complete lack of a threat and clinches up and then it goes to the ground and turns into grappling with people generally still unwilling to really hit eachother.

So, the other day I bit the bullet and decided to throw some bucks at a decent pair of MMA sparring gloves. My old gym used Primetime Level 4 gloves for all the fighter training and everyone loved them,

The primetime gloves are designed to combat the slap boxing MMA tendency by putting the shock absorbency of a 16 ounce glove into an 8 ounce MMA glove that looks and feels like an MMA glove. I wanted to get something decent to train with and these looked like the way to go.

So I placed an order with nextmovegear.com and 120 bucks and 6 days later (I ordered on the holiday weekend) they're at my door.

So we take them to the gym tonight and give them a roll I have to say that I really enjoyed them. it was great to be able to really pop my partner, be it on our feet or on the ground, and not really have to worry about hurting them. The gloves are comfortable to wear Easy to make a fist in and easy to grapple in.

I was no more afraid to hit or be hit with these gloves them I am with a boxing glove. I could throw a nice stiff jab at my partners face and not ruin her day and she could do the same to me. It was wonderful and I highly recommend these gloves to people who want to train MMA. Let's be honest, most of the people with 4oz fight gloves are never going to fight anyways so they might as well just get the training version.

Couple things of note though is that these gloves are a fair bit bulkier then regular MMA gloves and as such your hands can and will be harder to slip out of stuff if you get them stuck underneath someone, or your partner gets ahold of your wrist. This should encourage you to not get your hands stuck in tight positions. I did not feel the gloves were really in my way at all when working for submissions or the like. I could get good grips and holds and had great hand dexterity.

When striking I think you might want to watch that you hit with the padded part of the glove as it's easy when throwing longer range hooks to catch your partner with the middle knuckle. Since this part is exposed it hurts a fair bit f you get caught with it but it's not going to kill anyone. It's a contact sport, Contact happens.

Ashly and I did many many rounds of MMA tonight and had a blast. I highly recommend these gloves for anyone looking for a good training glove that lets you really tag your partner without fear of hurting them. Put the 4ouncers down, posers.

**BackFistMonkey** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:32pm

Do you have any pictures ?

I would like to compare them ( based one the one thing that matters , how they match my ink ) to my combat sports sparring gloves ...

and yes I am to lazy to open a new tab , click the google button , click image search , cut/paste your text , then hit the enter button .

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:37pm

Kat was about to take pictures but got side tracked. In my opinion, they look much classier than the combat sports gloves and at least LOOK more durable, but I've never worn the combat sports ones so there ya go.

The gloves are really comfortable and don't seem to interfere with grappling to any noticeable degree so far. They're also very forgiving.

ALSO, to all you dweebs that talk about defending against MMA gloves vs defending against boxing gloves... as far as I'm concerned it's NOT much different. But then, I don't subscribe to the keep your gloves in front of your face at all times to defend crap like everyone thinks is "the way".

**Anna Kovacs** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:43pm

**Anna Kovacs** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:47pm

We got two sets of the open palm versions, size medium.

Probably could have stood to go a size smaller but I like having extra room to fit my wraps in comfortably. Medium would work fine for anyone with normal sized hands and a decent wrap job.

They have several sizes available and a closed palm version. Closed palm doesnt allow the same sensitivity but it does prevent people from hooking your glove like cheating bastards.

**Zendetta** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 6:48pm

Bitchin'.

I wish I had been nicer and Santa had brought me some.

Stupid Santa.

**BackFistMonkey** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 7:04pm

So can I get this same picture with the palm towards the camera ( with a closed fist ) . Odd request I know .

The gloves appear to be higher quality than the Combat Sports gloves I have . I like design of the Primetime Level 4 gloves , better over all as well .

**Shuma-Gorath** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 7:05pm

That's a nice glove but I figure if you're going to make them that huge they might as well cover the thumb like my CombatSports 6oz pair. My thumbless pair are also from CombatSports back before they put the ugly logo on the leather and also made them much thinner.

**Anna Kovacs** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 7:08pm

when my camera batteries charge i will comply.

**Anna Kovacs** · Posted On: 1/04/2007 7:10pm

I think there is a thumbed version floating around somewhere but I can't recall for sure.

They also make "level 3" gloves which are slightly less padded, presumeably for people that prefer to grapple but want to be able to strike decently aswell.