Handpain:

Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
Some 10-12 years ago I had a problem with my right hand; it was constantly sore and if you looked at it sideways the knuckles would begin to swell. I had x-rays done and the doctor couldfind nothing wrong and his only advice was to quit boxing. I purchased all the knuckleguards andknuckle protectors I could find and I had sponges under my gloves and all the rest and nothing worked. I'd throw a right hand and it would hurt and swell immediately.
One night I took off all the wraps and sat down and thought about the mechnics of how I was throwing the punch and decided that the problem was that, in anticpation of the pain, I was causingit by laying off the punch. So,bare-isted, I jabbedtwice and threw as good a right as I could and it didn't hurt and hasn't since. The problem was twofold, I think, in that I was landing on an odd part of the knuckle and that due to all the crap under my wrps I couldn't make a proper fist.