What gloves are good for sparring?

[hateinyaeyes32]

^^ This is exactly it. save the macho **** for the ring, you go to the gym to learn

lol you should rep me for that man i have no points yet and all the little ******s that disagree slightly with what i say give me bad karma on this site lmao! Jk idc bout the points, but like you said, the gym is for learning, and everyone who is even considering boxing needs to know that, before they walk into the gym with a "tough guy" attitude, because for one, the trainers most likely aint gonna put up with it, and youll make alot of enemies, you dont want enemies if youre going to be training with them everyday, and if you want to hurt them, guess what? They'll want to hurt you too. It's just a bad situation all around, and you dont want that!

[colly10]

Buying gloves with more pop for sparring is totally pointless. I have good power in my weight class but I put very little power in my shots when i'm sparring, it's not a fight it's about working on your skills, technique and speed.

It's a bad idea to want to hurt your sparring partner anyway, if I get in against a guy who's far more skillful than me and I take alot of shots it doesn't bother me but if I get in against a guy who's deliberately putting power in his shots then I start to hit alot harder myself.

When you get in to fight you won't have the harder gloves that you will learn to rely on, learn to work to your strengths whether it's speed or skills

[hateinyaeyes32]

Buying gloves with more pop for sparring is totally pointless. I have good power in my weight class but I put very little power in my shots when i'm sparring, it's not a fight it's about working on your skills, technique and speed.

It's a bad idea to want to hurt your sparring partner anyway, if I get in against a guy who's far more skillful than me and I take alot of shots it doesn't bother me but if I get in against a guy who's deliberately putting power in his shots then I start to hit alot harder myself.

When you get in to fight you won't have the harder gloves that you will learn to rely on, learn to work to your strengths whether it's speed or skills

Agreed, thats why i dont like sparring with alotta hotheaded or guys who think theyre big, cuz they get in there and try to be mike tyson, but when they get hit and dropped theyll say wtf its supposed to be sparring. I was sparring with a buddy of mine, and i could tell he was trying to throw extra hard against me, and i just let it go for a minute, and he threw an uppercut that caught me right on the nose while we were clinched up, and threw it as hard as he could, the biggest no-no in sparring. Needless to say when I saw blood on my blue gloves, i dropped him after he let go of me, and im ashamed of myself to say that i got sent home from the gym that day because i got on top of him while he was down and hit him a few more times with some hard shots, and lets just say hes never tried to go hard like that on another sparring partner again. Thats the only time Ive ever became really pissed at someone while sparring, and imagine if I was someone who was pissed off all the time? I wouldnt have stopped!

[colly10]

i got sent home from the gym that day because i got on top of him while he was down and hit him a few more times with some hard shots, and lets just say hes never tried to go hard like that on another sparring partner again. Thats the only time Ive ever became really pissed at someone while sparring, and imagine if I was someone who was pissed off all the time? I wouldnt have stopped!

Thats nuts, ye take hard or over the top shots from time to time, it's usually never personal and ye tap gloves at the end of the spar as usual

[hateinyaeyes32]

Thats nuts, ye take hard or over the top shots from time to time, it's usually never personal and ye tap gloves at the end of the spar as usual

always man, but not when someones in there trying to take your head off while the trainers are repeatedly yelling at this kid to settle down its only sparring, lol i felt i needed to teach him a lesson! Were buddies now, and that wasnt personal, he understood that i was just pissed because it was a spar and he took it like a fight!

[paulsinghnl]

i am a HW that wears 14 oz gloves, but no one has to worry, cuz i always just tag (unless my sparring partner feels like superman, for which i'll just clench my fist a little more) Gym is for learning.. i hate it when people don't get that. it's different when the other guy says he wants to go a little hard. because hard sparring is fun too sometimes, be honest. but i still only hit at like 60% max, cuz i'm at an unfair disadvantage anyway.

anyway, does anyone know where u can get Grants or Fighting Sports (defensive, good quality gloves) for Europe? the shipping costs can get killing..

[Righthandbanger]

I hate it when Heavies go light on me, seriously. I jus keep bombing em in my 16oz's until they hit me back.. seriously though if they can take a beating then try give em one. They probably have a reason for sparring with you or they'd ask to go light

[rochemback]

anyway, does anyone know where u can get Grants or Fighting Sports (defensive, good quality gloves) for Europe? the shipping costs can get killing..

http://shop.boxrec.com/ have Grant gloves
and
http://www.sugarrays.co.uk/shop/ have some from Fighting

You get the exact shipping and tax costs from both sites before finalising the order and both are from the UK.

I can recomment Boxrec where I ordered the Grant Campeon training gloves actually, they have very good customer service and keep you updated on the order status.

And I'm quite interested myself in the Fighting Training gloves (velcro) from Sugarrays, so I might order from there as well in the near future. Shipping and tax costs also looked ok when I looked for it recently.

[FM3O]

The fighting Sports Tri-tech gloves are really a solid choice.

[oniham]

Grant pro training. Nothing else.

How are they compared to the reyes gloves? I don't want to get reyes because I don't want to hurt my sparring partners (I'm a pretty big puncher ie I'm not too good at controlling my power yet). I've seen the grant pro trainings in person and they look a lot smaller than my Campeons, but they don't look nearly as aggressive as the reyes gloves.