MMA Leather Gloves
Having the right pair of gloves while fighting is compulsory both for your performance as well as safety. So if you are a professional fighter or even a beginner, it’s important for you to have some pairs of MMA leather gloves. You may have more than 1 glove which means one for each of the key training areas. You can also match them with your training activities as best as you can as per your choice. MMA Leather gloves are the best choice over competition gloves. If you are a regular fighter then competition gloves will never be the best choice for you. Our MMA leather gloves provide safety to your hands, finger, and wrist protection allowing your hands and fingers mobile and free for movement. These MMA leather gloves are comfortable and long-lasting to prevent any damage/injury while you’re training.
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Types of MMA Leather Gloves
Mixed martial artists can choose different types of gloves. It basically depends upon their usage like for what purpose they will use the gloves. The gloves basically designed to protect you from an injury while you are fighting a competition or you are doing training for a competition with your partner or coach etc. The weight of the padding is the main difference between the types of gloves that MMA fighters use and why. More padded gloves offer more protection and cushioning which helps you to secure the welfare of the fighter.
We will discuss 4 of our best MMA leather gloves that Pro-boxing is producing. Each of these gloves are designed for Different purposes.
1. Competition Gloves
The competition gloves are a must for a professional MMA fighter. They are known for their lightweight. These competition gloves are thin so fighters have to use some kind of hand wrap as well to protect their hands and knuckles from any damage/injury. These gloves are basically designed to give as much damage to your opponent as you can, so the design also goes towards the fighter hand. Different manufactures have different padding and support in the gloves. We at Proboxing add some side paddings as well will help you to stabilize your hands even when you are not wearing any wrap.
Our experts use a variety of materials in the manufacturing of the gloves. We use cowhide leather, synthetic leather, and sometimes a combination of both. The use of material totally depends upon the quality of the glove.
2. Training Gloves
Training gloves are also called hybrid gloves. As you only need these gloves for training purpose so they have less padding and they provide more space for your fingers to move. These gloves are comfortable and help you focus on learning and increasing your skills. You can compare both training and competition gloves together and you will definitely see a difference between padding and there allowance for moving fingers. The movement of fingers helps you and your partner to protect your knuckle while training. You know what properties does a best training gloves should possess? It’s something that could be used for both on ground as well as standing up. As stand up training requires gloves with thick padding so that it would be safer to train on a heavy bad. While on the second chance, when you start working on your grappling skills, you should have use a lightweight and open palm glove as it will make the movement around the mat easy for you without being constrained. These gloves provide good grip and they are made of durable leather material and double stitching is done so the fighter don’t have to worry for tearing apart suddenly.
3. Grappling Gloves
To increase their ground skills, the fighter wear these gloves known as grappling gloves. Sparring gloves has less padding as compared to competition Gloves. These gloves also provide a freedom of movement for the fingers to fighters so that they can have a strong grip on their opponents.
4. Sparring Gloves
If you are training for any combat sport, then sparring is one of the most important steps a fighter has to make in MMA. This helps them getting motivate and a little bit more trained while waiting for official match. The MMA sparring glove is heavy and more padded. These sparring gloves are also secured with a Velcro or it can be a lace as well, which helps the gloves to stay in a place throughout the sparring session. You can wear a wrist wrap underneath these gloves if you want, for safety and better security. This provide a natural curve to your hand while fighting. What materials are used in manufacturing of MMA gloves?
5. Leather and Synthetic Leather
High quality material is used for MMA gloves. And 100% leather is that high quality materials for MMA gloves. Both leather and synthetic leather can be used for the manufacturing of MMA gloves. But eventually you will feel the difference between both two. Though leather is expensive than synthetic leather but it is tough, natural and long-lasting. You can surely feel the difference between leather and synthetic leather as synthetic leathers feels like cheaper and also not natural to some extent.
6. Padding
For padding foam is the used mostly in the MMA gloves. Many types of foam materials can be used like layered foam and regular foam. But we use regular foam material for padding purpose at Pro-boxing equipment. The best quality foam is used, the most durable it will be.
7. Wrist strap
We used a solid Velcro system for wrist strap on the MMA gloves. The strap helps keeping the leather gloves tight and secure around your knuckle. What weight and size of MMA glove should we chose?
The MMA gloves comes in different sizes for example small, medium, large, extra-large etc. It totally depends upon your hand sizes and your choice that which size of MMA glove will fit you. Also gloves of different weight exists. You just have to decide for which purpose you are going to get yourself MMA gloves and then choose the weight accordingly.
Conclusion
If you have join a gym and have a coach to guide and train you, then you have to discuss with them if there are any guidelines about deciding weight of the gloves. But keep in mind when you have doubts about weight, just go for quality of the gloves and choose them. A high quality gloves is always a best choice for a fighter.