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TapouTUnderground Thai Boxing Glove (Series 2)
A quality Thai-style glove at an affordable price!
- Handcrafted with 100% cowhide all-leather outer cover and multi-foam padding.
- Thai style glove design allows free opening of the hand for clinch work.
- Thai glove padding and design provides protection to the hands while blocking kicks, both with the palm and the back of the hand.
- Long cuff design with extra padding on inside of wrists and forearm for blocking kicks and punches.
- Elastic wrist closure designed for flexible size adjustment.
- Satin nylon hand compartment liner provides extra comfort and moisture-repelling qualities while training.
- Attached thumb for protection and security.
- Available in 12 oz, 14 oz, 16 oz., and 18 oz. Color is black with grey crowning.
Sparring Gloves Primer
Boxing or "Sparring" gloves come in an enormous variety of styles, colors, traditions, purposes, sizes, brands, and designs. Before purchasing a glove to use in stand up sparring, iyou should familiarize yourself with what is available.
The first consideration in gloves is understanding that there are four basic categories of gloves:
MMA training gloves for striking and grappling simultaneously, on the ground and standing;
MMA fight gloves, for professional competition;
Sparring Gloves for doing stand up sparring training; and
Bag Gloves, for hitting the bags and mitts.
This section will discuss the various types of stand up sparring or "boxing" gloves that are available. Boxing gloves are divided into sparring gloves and fight gloves. Fight gloves are generally 10 oz or less. Sparring gloves are generally 14 oz or more. There is no use in MMA for a boxing fight glove, so the discussion is limited to the larger sparring or training gloves.
First of all, different fighting traditions have gloves with differing qualities. The main gloves described below are British, American, Mexican, Japanese, and Thai.
The classic Mexican glove, most characteristically Reyes, has a perfect, sleek feel, but minimal padding across the knuckles. This makes for an exciting fight, but is not so good for sparring, unless you really, really like to be hit hard by sharp knuckles in the face.
Japanese gloves like Winning brand put an abundance of padding across the knuckles, in up to eleven layers! This makes for a safer face, but provide a somewhat unrealistic, pillowy feel. The price for these excellent gloves can be hundreds of dollards.
The Standard American glove provides balance between the two extremes, and is the default glove in most boxing gyms. Top European brands like Top Ten likewise make a terrific boxing glove. However, none of these gloves is suitable for Mixed Martial Arts stand up striking practice.
The first consideration in gloves is understanding that there are four basic categories of gloves:
MMA training gloves for striking and grappling simultaneously, on the ground and standing;
MMA fight gloves, for professional competition;
Sparring Gloves for doing stand up sparring training; and
Bag Gloves, for hitting the bags and mitts.
This section will discuss the various types of stand up sparring or "boxing" gloves that are available. Boxing gloves are divided into sparring gloves and fight gloves. Fight gloves are generally 10 oz or less. Sparring gloves are generally 14 oz or more. There is no use in MMA for a boxing fight glove, so the discussion is limited to the larger sparring or training gloves.
First of all, different fighting traditions have gloves with differing qualities. The main gloves described below are British, American, Mexican, Japanese, and Thai.
The classic Mexican glove, most characteristically Reyes, has a perfect, sleek feel, but minimal padding across the knuckles. This makes for an exciting fight, but is not so good for sparring, unless you really, really like to be hit hard by sharp knuckles in the face.
Japanese gloves like Winning brand put an abundance of padding across the knuckles, in up to eleven layers! This makes for a safer face, but provide a somewhat unrealistic, pillowy feel. The price for these excellent gloves can be hundreds of dollards.
The Standard American glove provides balance between the two extremes, and is the default glove in most boxing gyms. Top European brands like Top Ten likewise make a terrific boxing glove. However, none of these gloves is suitable for Mixed Martial Arts stand up striking practice.
The British glove very closely resemebles the American glove, but uses lacing. It's design traces to the year 1743, when Jack Broughton developed what he then called "Mufflers" so paying students of the pugllistic arts woudl avoid "the inconveniency of black eyes, broken jaws, and bloody noses" and would presumably keep paying for lessons. The horse hair and lambswool that were traditonally used have given way to modern foams, but respect is due Jack Broughton for an innovation that would leave us all otherwise a lot uglier.
If you want to develop stand up striking that is ideal for boxing, train in a boxing glove. If you want to develop stand up striking that is ideal for MMA competititon, train in a Thai glove. The Thai glove has padding on the palm, to protect the hand against high kicks, but more importantly, the Thai glove defaults to a partly open state, so that you can readily clinch, grab kicks, and do all the other moves that are characterisitic of MMA.
Once you have determined to purchase a Thai sparring glove, your decision rests on what brand to purchase. Leading brands include Twins Special, Windy, Raja, Fairtex, Boon, Inter, Thaismai, King, and more. They are all good. We tested all of them, for many, many years, and came to the conclusion that Twins Special is the best of the best.
Thai gloves do have a breaking in period, so it is best to wear them for shadow boxing and light pad work for several hours before using them in any heavy sparring.
In addition to a sparring glove, it is important that you wrap your hands. For details on choosing a wrap, please see the Wraps section above.
