As a coach and club owner, I think it's more so the responsibility of the boxing club staff to educate their fighters on how to pick a proper glove than it is the fighter and I see it all the time when fighters where whatever. Fighters wear whatever, for whatever reason, and coaches let them wear it, also for whatever reason. I think perhaps more people than assumed just don't know how to pick a proper glove.
You can't expect a new fighter to know how to pick a glove and even some not-so-new fighters even have trouble. They just haven't been educated. Some have learned through trial and error, myself included, so I decided to do today's Vlog as a general guideline on how to pick a proper glove.
It was a pretty general Vlog because I wanted to stress picking a glove for your weight, something that SO MANY green fighters (boxers) don't do. It's also something that SO MANY coaches and boxing club staff don't call their fighters out on. I also wanted to give some little pointers on what to look for, etc.
For amateur bouts and pro bouts, fighters don't actually pick their gloves so I didn't think it necessary to go into that but I did go into picking a glove for heavy bag work (bag gloves) and sparring.
BAG GLOVES/ FITNESS GLOVES
+100lbs = 6-8oz glove
101-150lbs = 10-12oz glove
151-175lbs = 14oz glove
+175lbs = 16-18oz glove
SPARRING GLOVES
Youth = 8-12oz glove
101-150lbs = 12-14oz glove
151-175lbs = 14-16oz glove
+176lbs = 16-18oz glove
I also didn't go into which particular brands I like, well, I did a bit. But then again everyone and anyone who has ever trained with me or been trained by me knows I absolutely can't stand Everlast. My favourite are Reyes, with Ringside always being my go-to glove for sparring, and I like Winnings too.
In making this Vlog however, I then realized just how many gloves I have.
And to think, I only came to the Philippines with a couple of pairs. I left many in Canada and in Korea. Most of these are actual prototypes for the Empowered Exclusive Slay glove I ended up making. Bare in mind I never actually set out to make a glove. I just got so frustrated with clients showing up with brutally bad gloves.
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