amateur competition gloves

[bertolacylee]

I like the everlast competiton gloves but having laces is imporant because i like the better wrist support. Which amateur competition gloves do you like best. this is for training btw.

[Youngblood]

I have not used laced gloves, ever. They are likely better but have not had them, or had anyone who has. I carry ringside with me. At the last fight I was in, they for whatever reason, would not allow me to use my clubs, but made me use a pair of green hill competition 10 oz gloves...again, not laced.

[bertolacylee]

yea. I heard some AM shows make you use their gloves. So you do have ringside AM gloves? How are they?

[Chris Nagel]

I have a pair of 10 oz cleto's for training. They're laced up, and more importantly allow me to make a solid fist and just feels nice.

For sparring, I have a pair of amateur 14 oz gloves by everlast. They have the velcro which is convenient, but that's about the only good thing that I can say about them.

[Youngblood]

The ringside ones are okay, a bit cheap but I like them. The green hill ones I've worn on several occasions, and are sort of awkward and seemed rounder.

As a point of interest for this thread, what do you all train and spar with as well. I train with a set of 14 oz. spar with 16 oz. and fight santoned with 10oz. Our In House fights which are just as brutal, if not moreso then santioned fights, we use 16 oz. All a matter of protection.

Why I bring this up is, I have read about people training with these huge oversized 18-22 oz gloves somehow thinking they are preparing themselves better and will be faster when fighting. Now I don't/won't go into all the details, I suppose we`ll see where this ends up...but it was recently discovered by sports scientists, that for eg...baseball players for however long who use donuts on their bats, or swing 2 bats right before stepping in the box, thinking that light feeling they get right after, are actually losing bat speed and distance and effectiveness by doing so, not increasing it as they`ve always thought. Oops.

Just some thoughts.

[bertolacylee]

this is interesting because as a baseball player i loved swinging two bats and i thought it did help me. guess not. I use 12 oz Gels to train in and 16 to spar. I wud like to buy some ringside AM competition gloves tho for training. I think it will help me to use small gloves for accuracy. Another thing is that swinging two bats would be like putting weights on your glove before the fight then taking them off. training with heavy gloves could benefit you because it works your shoulder.