Wrapping your hands.
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King Tubby
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Wrapping your hands.
How do you wrap them if you're going on the bag or pads? Saying you don't have tape, do you cross between the knuckles?
Re: Wrapping your hands.
Use 4 Le Roy wraps. Sew the ends of 2 together for double length wraps for each hand.. You spread your fingers a little and make 4 or 5 circles around to make the pad for your knuckles. Works best if the wrap is unrolling next to your hand rather than turned the opposite way. Place the pad carefully on the knuckles, hold with the thumb, wrap away from you as you're looking at the top of your hand, and secure the knuckle pad with a couple of wraps and bring the wrap down to the wrist, once around, and back up on the back side of the hand. Crisscross the back of the hand, working around the index and little fingers, and paying attention to shoring up the metacarpals and weak side of the fist as you work the wrap through the 3 spaces between the 4 fist fingers.
As you work through the fingers run the wrap around the turns in front of the hand and cinch them up off your palm so you can make a better fist. This takes a little imagination, practice, and redoing the wrap a few times.. You'll find a method that uses the wrap the most efficiently and effectively. Wrap the major knuckle of the thumb well because thumbs are easy to sprain or injure. You can get upward tension on the thumb if as you wrap around the base of the thumb as you work through the fingers. Work the wrap straight across the back of the hand over the crisscross pattern to solidly brace the metacarpals working down and about 4 inches up the wrist -- then back up toward the hand to firm up the wrist, and finish by tucking the end into the wrap at the bottom of the palm. Wrap the whole way in the same direction as you reel in a fish. You'll improve your method after you wrap your hands a few times.
As you work through the fingers run the wrap around the turns in front of the hand and cinch them up off your palm so you can make a better fist. This takes a little imagination, practice, and redoing the wrap a few times.. You'll find a method that uses the wrap the most efficiently and effectively. Wrap the major knuckle of the thumb well because thumbs are easy to sprain or injure. You can get upward tension on the thumb if as you wrap around the base of the thumb as you work through the fingers. Work the wrap straight across the back of the hand over the crisscross pattern to solidly brace the metacarpals working down and about 4 inches up the wrist -- then back up toward the hand to firm up the wrist, and finish by tucking the end into the wrap at the bottom of the palm. Wrap the whole way in the same direction as you reel in a fish. You'll improve your method after you wrap your hands a few times.