Youth Boxing Gear: Wrapping Hands

Video Transcript

"And the reason we're keeping those fingers spread is because if you don't keep those fingers spread, what's going to happen is the hand wraps going to be too tight when we're done. So he's going to spread his fingers until I tell him to relax them. So four times around the wrist. I'm going to go four times around the big knuckles here. We're going to go halfway around that thumb, keeping it nice and wide. The other direction, halfway 'round again. Back up to these big knuckles, there you go. Good sport, keeping those fingers spread. And then we're going to do the thumb one more time from that direction. Another time from this direction, and we're going to go back down to the wrist. Okay, and we're going to secure it on the wrist. So that way we've got a good coverage on the wrist, we've got good coverage on the knuckles, and we've got good coverage on the thumb. And you can't see any of Otis's hand there. Go ahead and wrap the other hand. How's that feel? Is it nice and tight? That's good. Okay. Spread those fingers. Okay. We're going to work around that wrist, about four times. Gonna work our way up around to these big knuckles, which is the most important part that we want to protect, 'cause those are the ones that are going to be taking the brunt of the punching. Going halfway around that thumb, keeping it nice and wide. We want to protect that thumb, we don't any want broken thumbs. Okay, back up to the big knuckles again, three, four times. Gonna do that thumb one more time from that direction. One more time from this direction. Back up to those big knuckles once or twice. Then back down to the wrist. Now we're going to have a good, secure grip on the wrist. Now we're ready to grab some bag gloves."