WTF is this crap about hands blowing up without gloves or wraps?

**KhorneliusPraxx** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 12:47pm

If you are bareknuckled, you shouldn't be hitting anything full power with a closed fist.

unless it is hammer time!

**Monkfg** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 12:54pm

Train bare knuckeled and you will be more safe if you fight that way. Train with gloves and you will have more power if you fight that way. Most people train with gloves and that's why they tend to injure themselves when they go at it without.

**gregaquaman** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 12:55pm

Originally Posted by MMAMickey

the benefits of working bare knuckle (fight specific) are ruined by the fact you're not hitting full power

It is still hard it is just not boxing glove hard

**MMAMickey** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 1:16pm

Originally Posted by Monkfg

Train bare knuckeled and you will be more safe if you fight that way. Train with gloves and you will have more power if you fight that way. Most people train with gloves and that's why they tend to injure themselves when they go at it without.

if you hit a bag with bag gloves you can feel exactly how your hands are connecting without skinning your knuckles and safely use full power.

training bare knuckled is fucking retarded.

**Petter** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 1:44pm

Originally Posted by Bubba_The_SHY

Same reasoning applies to your knees, it's really bad on longterm to run on asphalt beacause of the continous schocks that your knees have to absorb. So try finding a dirt track and/or get yourself DECENT running shoes.

Or run like a barefoot runner, with a “toe-first” stride where the impact is on the ball of the foot and the energy is absorbed by the muscles and tendons of the foot rather than jolting up to your knee. See Nature.

**Monkfg** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 2:29pm

@Petter
I did this and I fucked up the arch of my left foot. Now I walk differently and my left knee hurts. ****!

**Petter** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 2:42pm

Yeah, I’m trying to be more “barefoot-like” myself (for various reasons), wearing extremely thin-soled shoes and so on. It’s an interesting experience; for the first couple of months my feet hurt because they were just too weak and not used to having to absorb energy. I feel like I’m finally starting to catch up, a little bit, and whether it’s causally related or not, I’m not having as much low-back pain as I am otherwise prone to (mild scoliosis+hyperlordosis+flat feet FTW).

I don’t really run, though. I expect that would be an even steeper learning curve. But some people do seem to swear by it…

**Mr. Machette** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 2:57pm

Originally Posted by MMAMickey

training bare knuckled is fucking retarded.

I'm a recovering retard, and I endorse this message!

**Mr. Machette** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 2:58pm

Originally Posted by Petter

Or run like a barefoot runner, with a “toe-first” stride where the impact is on the ball of the foot and the energy is absorbed by the muscles and tendons of the foot rather than jolting up to your knee. See Nature.

It's all fun and games till someone get MRS.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 5/07/2010 4:42pm

If you do a serious heavy bag workout without gloves at full power and intensity and your hands are totally fine, you're probably doing something wrong.

RE skinning the knuckles- I hit my heavy bag without gloves sometimes, and if you do it right you shouldn't be losing skin. A correct punch shouldn't graze the bag, and that's what will skin your knuckles. Your fist should be hitting roughly perpendicular to the bag and the force should go through your forearm, not across the skin of your knuckles.