Boxing type for boxercise?

micromary

Maybe somebody can or can't help me here. I do boxercise which is great. I use the gloves that the gym provide but one of my wrists feels regularly sore after the class. Should I have be using boxing tape with the gloves to strengthen my wrists or could anybody be able to shed some advise. Cheers

thegreatiam

get some wraps from a sports shop, about €5 or so. Your coach can teach you how to wear them or find a video online

NuddaIreland

Wraps are the best protection for your wrists as without them and only using gloves the hand and wrist still have too much movement when hitting pads and injury can occur very easily. You can also try wrist curls with a light dumbbell to strenghten them up.

weemcd

I know I had pain in my wrist hitting heavy bags before, you need to be careful how your fist comes into contact with that or with pads, nice and straight

micromary

Any particular sports shop that I would get these wraps guys - Elverys, Champion Sports or should I go to a specialist shop such as Mick Dowlings?

thegreatiam

yes. they all sell them.

micromary

Checked both Elverys and Champion out on Saturday. Neither have them. I am going to try Velo Sports on the Quays. They should have them. If not there is always Mick Dowlings who will certainly have them!

gep91

micromary wrote: »

Checked both Elverys and Champion out on Saturday. Neither have them. I am going to try Velo Sports on the Quays. They should have them. If not there is always Mick Dowlings who will certainly have them!

heatons have loads of them

thegreatiam

micromary wrote: »

Checked both Elverys and Champion out on Saturday. Neither have them. I am going to try Velo Sports on the Quays. They should have them. If not there is always Mick Dowlings who will certainly have them!

depends on which elverys, Ive got them from the shop on suffolk street, the one in arnots and most recently in dundrum.

I got my gloves and shorts in Velo, they are nice and cheap. Also they are a boxing shop, whereas elverys doesn't really specialise so they can be hit and miss. Mick dowlings is the same.

If velo on the quays doesnt have them there is a martial arts shop on capel street called mullen sports, near the junction of parnel street. and if your still struggling there is a MMA shop that may have them in the arcade opposite mullen sports.

follow the luas back into town and there is another mma shop called Cru I think, near the twisted pepper, sells mostly tshirts but they may have wraps.

You can also get them online easy and most boxing gyms/mma gyms also sell them.

If, after all that, you still cant get them come to dundrum and ill give you my spare ones:D.

cowzerp

Boxercise class's where the instructor let's students hold pads for each other are Injuries waiting to happen, there is a skill to holding pads and this practise is dangerous for the person holding and hitting the pads.

Maybe try Boxing and get your technique up, less injuries to your hands if you have good technique.

Boxercise in my experience just makes technique awful and when i get people from Boxercise class's they are harder to teach than complete 1st tmers.

FTA69

cowzerp wrote: »

Boxercise class's where the instructor let's students hold pads for each other are Injuries waiting to happen, there is a skill to holding pads and this practise is dangerous for the person holding and hitting the pads.

Maybe try Boxing and get your technique up, less injuries to your hands if you have good technique.

Boxercise in my experience just makes technique awful and when i get people from Boxercise class's they are harder to teach than complete 1st tmers.

Chalk it down. I'd a fella holding pads for me once who instead of feeding the pad into me, kept flinching away and pulling them back. Twice I overextended my elbow as a result of it. There's nothing more maddening.

micromary

Great answer Cowzerp. I appreciate it. You are probably right. In the class at the NAC the gym person involved does not seem interested in how we hold or hit the pads. In fact sometimes I think she does not know what boxercise is to be honest. May be a good idea to do some boxing in a club and learn the right way. Which club is the next question!!

cowzerp

micromary wrote: »

Great answer Cowzerp. I appreciate it. You are probably right. In the class at the NAC the gym person involved does not seem interested in how we hold or hit the pads. In fact sometimes I think she does not know what boxercise is to be honest. May be a good idea to do some boxing in a club and learn the right way. Which club is the next question!!

Where do you Live? or do you have transport if travelling to a club is an option

micromary

I live in Portmarnock. I know that there is 2 boxing clubs nearby in Portmarnock itself and Baldoyle. I think both may be junior clubs if I am right?

cowzerp

micromary wrote: »

I live in Portmarnock. I know that there is 2 boxing clubs nearby in Portmarnock itself and Baldoyle. I think both may be junior clubs if I am right?

We're not far from you, train adult novices and you're welcome to come and try it if you want, Most clubs train jr's and adults who progressed through the ranks

micromary

May give it a try out in Rush thanks.

gdavis

hi cowzerp. as I am miles away from u, are u aware of any clubs on south side that cater for complete novices the wrong side of 35?