BAG GLOVES

Bag Gloves which are also known as Bag Mitts. They are lightly padded gloves with a higher density of foam. These gloves are primarily used to protect your hands when hitting a punching bag. Bag gloves tend to be lighter and less padded then sparring gloves. They are typically around 8oz -14oz in weight, and have approximately 1 to 1.5 inches of padding over the knuckles. Good bag gloves are made of leather and are constructed with a higher density foam to withstand hitting a heavy punching bag on a regular basis.

There are different types of bags gloves on the market;

• Speed Bag Gloves: The lightest of the bag gloves and primarily used to protect the hands while hitting the speed bag or double end bag.
• MMA bag Gloves: In our opinion, these bag gloves are more of fad then anything. They offer more protection then the speed bag gloves, but less then the regular bag gloves. These gloves are only recommended for hitting pads, speed bags, and double end bags.
• Regular bag gloves: These tend to be between 8oz - 12oz and offer a little bit more protection then the speed bag mitts or the mma bag gloves.
• Heavy bag gloves: Are well constructed to protect your hands and wrists from injury. They offer more protecting when punching the punching bag then all the other types of bag gloves. These gloves are Typically sold in the 14oz - 16oz range.

Most people use bag gloves to protect their hands and to give give them added wrist support while hitting the heavy bag. Using bag gloves to prevent hand injuries will go a long way. An injured fighter can't train, and if he can't train, he can't get better. Plus, at 40 years of age, who wants to have crippled arthritic hands.

Some traditional martial artists don't use bag gloves because they want to develop the strength in their hands and wrists to be able to delver knock out power and be injury free in a bare-fisted confrontation. For those who choose this route, bag gloves are still nice to prevent cuts when throwing hooks and uppercuts that tend to glance a moving heavy bag. It's always a good idea to use bag gloves if you're a beginner because the hands are fragile and are not use to striking a heavy punching bag round after round.

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If your looking at high quality Boxing gloves, there's a big difference between bag gloves and sparring gloves. Bag gloves tend to be denser, less padded and more compact (almost like fight gloves). Sparring gloves tend to be softer and have more padding. Bag gloves protect your hands while hitting a punching bag, and are constructed to do so day after day, without falling apart. Sparring gloves on the other hand are constructed to protect both your hands and your partner's face. When sparring gloves are used as bag gloves, the foam inside them tends to deteriorate quickly compared to bag gloves. Bag gloves are typically sold in the 8oz - 14oz range; while, sparring gloves tend to be sold in the 14oz - 20oz range.

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Truthfully, there is nothing stopping you, but if your training partners start to noticed you useing your bag gloves to spar, they may start to classify you as a "DOUCHEBAG" and people may be reluctant to spar with you.

Two things can happen, the foam inside the glove will compress and get harder or the foam will break down and get softer. Ether way, the foam provides less protection for your sparring partner, and they will feel the impact.

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Superior bag gloves are made with a thick leather shell, good combination of dense and soft foams, quality padding over the knuckles, and should provide great wrist support.

Superior bag gloves are made with a thick leather shell, dense foam, quality padding over the knuckles, and should provide great wrist support.

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