What is the purpose of using boxing gloves?
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Boxing gloves are to protect both the puncher and the punchee.\n\nThe puncher's hands and fists could be seriously injured by landing a hard shot directly to someone's head without any kind of padding. It could also send shocks up the arm and cause further injury. A boxer also uses handwraps and tape under the gloves to ensure that their knuckles are protected. Many fighters still injure their hands during bouts, but the extra padding helps the fights to last longer and be more a test of skill than how well your fists hold up.\n\nOf course, it also protects the boxer who is being punched. It softens the blow so that the brain is not jarred as much when hit. There is less likely to be brain damage and much less likely that the fighter will be cut. \n\nI suspect fights would not go even half as long as they do now if fighters were not allowed to wear gloves, and the sport would be much more dangerous.
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The purpose is to lift heavier weights then you normally can without the straps. Grip muscles don't get as much workout in your daily life as other muscle do. When people exercise with weights, they rarely work grip muscles directly.\nTherefore, often the grip is the weakest link when handling weights, because muscles responsible for it are small and it is not easy to develop them. \n\nMy recommendation is not to use straps, because it is to your benefit to develop your grip. It could also be dangerous, because your body is not used to handling that extra weight you can lift using the straps. Straps have their place in weight lifting, but they are better suited for experienced and developed lifters.
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Absolutely.  There is no purpose to doing them.  Your joints in your fingers are not meant to support your body weight.  Look at how small your knuckles are.  Now imagine how small the tiny ligaments that hold them together are.  It's perfectly logical that you shouldn't do them.  You don't get anything more out of it than doing regular pushups.
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The boxing ring is the space in which a boxing match occurs. A modern ring is square, set on a raised platform and bound around with four parallel rows of rope attached to posts at each corner of the ring. Currently professional contests have to have an international standard ring. However there are a number of different international standards.\n\nThe name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes
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This site has instructions.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/boxing/newsid_3526000/3526378.stm\n\nJ.
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I have never heard of a maxium glove size in baseball, but it may be different for different leagues.  Its usually not to your advantage using a softball glove in baseball because the deep pocket makes it hard to get the ball out fast.  If you are just using it to play catch or rec ball, its not a big deal.  Also it depends on how big it is too.  I know they make smaller softball gloves.  If it happens to be a 11" or 12" its not that big anyways.
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Use it...and a little shaving cream, use about the size of a quarter for the first 3-5 days that you are going to use it.   DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, put a ball in it and tie it with laces, rope, elastic, or whatever you'd tie it with.  You want the glove to mould to the shape of your hand from the inside out, and so it moves with your hand, after all it's to protect your hand, not to the shape of the ball outside in.  Whoever that person at sports authority who said to fold it inside out, should at the very least be fired for saying that, you want the glove to last a while I am assuming. You don't want the leather to get too stretched, let alone the damage it would do to your poor lacing.
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First of all the scrubbing is to eliminate all germs on hands and there is a certain way of washing the hands making sure all parts of the hands are scrubbed. Then the gloves are a protection from the bodily fluids they may come across.The gloves are a protection also from germs, and if the glove gets ripped in any way during surgery the hands are sanitized enough to not infect the patient until more gloves are put on. The mask and robe are sterile so no germs are transferred to patient. And also the scrubs they might be wearing may have germs on them to so the robe is a protection from that. The mask is so they don't breathe or sneeze on the patient.
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Because when you have gloves you don't really have the feel for the ball. You can't feel the ball because of the gloves...By developing your dribbling skills with your gloves on, you can get used to it and will greatly improve your dribbling skills...My coach let us do this when we were practicing for a major game last year in our league...
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TPX makes a good bat, and wilson makes a good glove.....a lot of gloves are made for certain positions also, if you didn't already know that.....do a little online research and find out what the pros use and i'd say that's a safe bet...
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Please see this link which explains\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_weight_classes
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To a certain extent you can wash your gloves, but it's better if you manually wash them in order to protect the grip. Don't use strong products.
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Tradition.\n\nBoxing is a respected sport all around the world.  I think it is a great way to see young fighters before they turn pro.
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You've got to keep your gloves up in the ring and defend yourself better.  Weave and bob around, it'll minimize the impact of the punches.  You have to watch out around the southpaws.
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A bit o' cut and paste:\n\nn the early days of professional fist fighting, groups of fighters would travel from town to town challenging the local men. The fighters would arrange a few of the spectators in a circle and have them hold a ring of rope. Any man wishing to challenge one of the boxers would "toss his hat into the ring." The bout would then take place in this early boxing "ring."\n\nAs the number of spectators increased, the hand-held ring no longer sufficed, and it became necessary to fashion an enclosure by attaching ropes to stakes driven into the ground. Four stakes were normally used, which produced a square enclosure, but it continued to be called a boxing ring.
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along with the other answers here's a quick breakdown\n\n16oz-speed training and endurance: you cant go very long if you cant keep up with your opponent as well as keep throwing your own punches or counters. plus with using 16oz gloves it makes your hands heavier, slower punching, but if you practice your hands once you downsize gloves, will be faster and lighter.\n\n14oz-sparing: basically just the overall get in the ring and practice your technique. since its not as heavy as the 16's you'll still be able to throw fast and accurate.\n\n12oz-bags: use these on the bags so that you have your speed with you as well as training your fist to take the punch (less padding)\n\n10oz-fights: i think its the approved amateur glove weight for bouts
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garden glove? Washing gloves? Batting gloves?