am boxing in aus is big, lots of people involved. many options, lots of trainers, everywhere.
go to http://www.qabai.org/
im from queensland and thats the governing am body.
im not sure about limits on fights per year. never heard of it.
pm me if you have any questions.
just train with bag gloves and no wraps you should only use wraps when your getting closer to a fight if you train with a brace on your body becomes used to the suppport and wont strengthen itself for the impacts you wont need wraps until you get into the 180 plus punchs a round and it dont sound like thats your goal the best advice is find a good trainer not just any guy make sure he has trained good fighters the coachs ability directly shows in his fighters…
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CaliforniaLaw and Donut62 are right. JKD is a Bruce Lee fan club. I learned to punch from a JKD when I was like 13 or 14. I hurt my hands a lot, actually broke them a few times. I joined a gym that had boxing and powerlifting when I was 15 and learned to punch with a two knuckle landing and quit hurting my hands (and losing fights). I also wouldn’t take any advice from someone who says “ya hands” and “ya wraps”. Is that supposed to sound cool? Are you like a thug or something? LOL
[quote]Peeott wrote:
xb100-
CaliforniaLaw and Donut62 are right. JKD is a Bruce Lee fan club. I learned to punch from a JKD when I was like 13 or 14. I hurt my hands a lot, actually broke them a few times. I joined a gym that had boxing and powerlifting when I was 15 and learned to punch with a two knuckle landing and quit hurting my hands (and losing fights). I also wouldn’t take any advice from someone who says “ya hands” and “ya wraps”. Is that supposed to sound cool? Are you like a thug or something? LOL[/quote]
Where you at in Ohio? Agreed on the hand breaks. There is some school of thought in boxing, mostly stemming from Jack Dempsey’s book, about hitting with the last 3.
But like I said, most pro boxers are getting a professional tape wrap everyday a couple inches thick and their hands are well protected. Dempsey is often accused of plastering his wraps as well, so I take his advice with a grain of salt. There was only one Mauler.
[quote]isr wrote:
Question: do those IMF Bag Gloves top out at 14oz? Thats the weight that Ringside has. Do they offer max protection against a heavy bag, compared to other bag gloves (I get sore knuckles really quickly, no matter which glove I try)?
It just seems that the padding on their training gloves is thicker - would it be completely retarded to just use those on the heavy bag?[/quote]
Try wrapping your hands differently. As advised above 180" hand wraps (Mexican Style) are the way to go. I’ve only seen them for sale online. Place like Academy and Sport Authority only sell 104" - 108" wraps. Even the local Boxing/MMA sells the short wraps.
For extra knuckle protection I like this wrap.
More options:
http://www.boxinggyms.com/tips/handwraps.htm
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
Peeott wrote:
xb100-
CaliforniaLaw and Donut62 are right. JKD is a Bruce Lee fan club. I learned to punch from a JKD when I was like 13 or 14. I hurt my hands a lot, actually broke them a few times. I joined a gym that had boxing and powerlifting when I was 15 and learned to punch with a two knuckle landing and quit hurting my hands (and losing fights). I also wouldn’t take any advice from someone who says “ya hands” and “ya wraps”. Is that supposed to sound cool? Are you like a thug or something? LOL
Where you at in Ohio? Agreed on the hand breaks. There is some school of thought in boxing, mostly stemming from Jack Dempsey’s book, about hitting with the last 3.
But like I said, most pro boxers are getting a professional tape wrap everyday a couple inches thick and their hands are well protected. Dempsey is often accused of plastering his wraps as well, so I take his advice with a grain of salt. There was only one Mauler.[/quote]
I’m in Columbus. Agreed on Dempsey. There’s a lot of stuff elite athletes can get away with that the rest of us can’t. Being a top pro fighter takes just as rare genentics as being a a top pro bodybuilder.
I met Jens Pulver a few years ago and he was a few inches shorter than me but his fists were the size of my head. Arnold wrote in his book about whittling away abdominal fat with crunches. If you’re gifted it doesn’t matter that you’re wrong. It’s the rest of us that need to know what we’re talking about.
Thanks for all the helpful info everyone, much appreciated.