Heavy bag gloves questions.

[Equilibrium]

First i would like to say i have never posted here before but i have been reading these boards for more or less than a year.

Ok, i have been boxing for a good couple of years until i stopped going to the gym and started training at home. I don't know if i can consider this boxing anymore but i do plan to go back to training more seriously at the end of the summer.

Since i started boxing i always used some small 4-6 oz gloves to hit the bag since that was the way it was teached to me. My problem is that i go through a pair of these gloves every 2 months, and im not talking about some 10$ fake leather everlast gloves. I tried many different brands/kind of gloves over the years but it always comes down to the same thing: the padding becomes soft and the gloves rips open from the inside.It is usally the right glove that starts giving out first since i am a southpaw. I even put on 2 pairs hand-wraps and it doesn't change anything.

Could it be that i hit the bag too hard for no reason? I hit it as hard as i would hit another fighter. I do 1 hour heavy bag drills about 4 times a week. I have seen some pro fighters training on video and noticed that a lot of them use bigger gloves for training, 14-16 oz. Should i try to do that?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[no1p4p]

hey mate, Yeh you should be using at least 14 oz for heavy bag. Some peolpe even use 20oz gloves for bags so its up to you what you go for

[jberg]

at least a good 12 oz (if not 14 or 16 oz pair) will do the trick

[Equilibrium]

Great thanks guys.

[JayCoe]

I have a pair of Everlast Leather Mitts and a pair of Lonsdale Pro-Sparring 14 Oz. Gloves for bag work. Mitts will help you perfect a new shot with speed, gloves will enable you to do it in the ring comfortably and build endurance. Also, what time of bag is it? Is it leather? At home I have this cheap crappy bag which is material, haven't used that one in a while but i'd expect that it's rough surface would eat my gloves alive.

[Equilibrium]

I have a pair of Everlast Leather Mitts and a pair of Lonsdale Pro-Sparring 14 Oz. Gloves for bag work. Mitts will help you perfect a new shot with speed, gloves will enable you to do it in the ring comfortably and build endurance. Also, what time of bag is it? Is it leather? At home I have this cheap crappy bag which is material, haven't used that one in a while but i'd expect that it's rough surface would eat my gloves alive.

The bag i am using at home is a 250 pounds kevlar genes sports bag, i had it custom made. So yes, kevlar is pretty rough, but i only had this bag for about a year. Before that i had a 150 pounds leather ATF bag and i had the same problem. Plus at the gym they had all leather bags, still the same problem.

I have a pair of 16 oz sparring gloves but i don't really want to use them to hit the bag, so next weekend i'll go buy some bigger bag gloves.

[JJ85]

Yeah try some new gloves, I use BBE's 16oz for the bag just now. I have tried quite a few bags mitts but like yourself I don't feel they hold up.

[Bizzle_LDN]

First i would like to say i have never posted here before but i have been reading these boards for more or less than a year.

Ok, i have been boxing for a good couple of years until i stopped going to the gym and started training at home. I don't know if i can consider this boxing anymore but i do plan to go back to training more seriously at the end of the summer.

Since i started boxing i always used some small 4-6 oz gloves to hit the bag since that was the way it was teached to me. My problem is that i go through a pair of these gloves every 2 months, and im not talking about some 10$ fake leather everlast gloves. I tried many different brands/kind of gloves over the years but it always comes down to the same thing: the padding becomes soft and the gloves rips open from the inside.It is usally the right glove that starts giving out first since i am a southpaw. I even put on 2 pairs hand-wraps and it doesn't change anything.

Could it be that i hit the bag too hard for no reason? I hit it as hard as i would hit another fighter. I do 1 hour heavy bag drills about 4 times a week. I have seen some pro fighters training on video and noticed that a lot of them use bigger gloves for training, 14-16 oz. Should i try to do that?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Training with heavier gloves is the ideal way to go with bag training. Because it is heavier it has more padding, and because it is heavier it is less likely that you'll be able to injure yourself because of the excess padding and that you are not able to hit it as fast with such impact as with lighter gloves, it makes it a breeze when you use normal sized gloves as well which is great! I recently purchases 'Everlast super weighted bag gloves', they come with additional rods of metal on the wrist strap for more weight, they ****ing weigh a lot for gloves! Hope this helps