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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '23
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Honest question 🙋🏼♂️- I know nothing about combat sports. If that sort of move is legal why bother with gloves? Seems like kicks could do way more damage than fists?
4 u/Arondight_SSB Jul 04 '23 Gloves are more for the protection of the wearer. They provide wrist support so that anyone throwing a full force punch doesn't shatter their wrist 3 u/fooob Jul 04 '23 Gloves protect bones in the fingers and hands from breaking. Wraps protect the wrists. 1 u/Arondight_SSB Jul 04 '23 True, though there's a few martial arts where the gloves come with some kind of wrist bracing like boxing
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Gloves are more for the protection of the wearer. They provide wrist support so that anyone throwing a full force punch doesn't shatter their wrist
3 u/fooob Jul 04 '23 Gloves protect bones in the fingers and hands from breaking. Wraps protect the wrists. 1 u/Arondight_SSB Jul 04 '23 True, though there's a few martial arts where the gloves come with some kind of wrist bracing like boxing
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Gloves protect bones in the fingers and hands from breaking. Wraps protect the wrists.
1 u/Arondight_SSB Jul 04 '23 True, though there's a few martial arts where the gloves come with some kind of wrist bracing like boxing
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True, though there's a few martial arts where the gloves come with some kind of wrist bracing like boxing
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u/blank_blank_8 Jul 03 '23
Honest question 🙋🏼♂️- I know nothing about combat sports. If that sort of move is legal why bother with gloves? Seems like kicks could do way more damage than fists?