How to Wrap Your Hands
Protect Yourself at All Times
Wrapping Your Hands is Time Wells Spent
There are 27 bones in your hand. If you are throwing bone crushing punches, you’ve got to make sure it’s not your bones that are getting crushed! Wrapping your hands takes time. Some fighters take as long as 45 minutes to wrap each hand perfectly. If you are serious about boxing, this is what you have got to do. A hand injury can be terminal for your boxing career and can also impact upon your work life.
Step 1
Find out which side is up and which side is down.
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The wraps should have a loop at one end, and Velcro fastening at the other. The side with the stitching on it should be the side which goes down.
Step 2
Place the loop over the thumb and let the rest of the wrap dangle down over the back of your hand. Remember to make sure that it is the correct way round!
Step 3
Wrap around the wrist once and let the wrap dangle down over the back of your wrist
Step 4
Pull the wrap up towards you and over the back of the hand towards the base of your little finger.
Step 5
Pull the wrap across the palm of your hand and back across the knuckles
Step 6
Bring the wrap across the palm of your hand again, but this time stop when you get to your thumb. Fold it 90 degrees across your thumb.
Step 7
Bring the wrap in between your little finger and ring finger.
Step 8
Take the wrap down the back of the hand to the base of your thumb
Step 9
From the base of the thumb, bring the wrap up the palm of the hand between the ring and middle finger. Take it down the back of the hand to the base of the thumb and up the palm of the hand between the index and middle fingers.
Step 10
From the base of the thumb, wrap the wrist once.
Step 11
Turn your hand so the palm is facing upwards. Bring the wrap from the thumb-side of the wrist to cross the lower section of the palm.
Step 12
Bring the wrap up across the back of the hand to cover the knuckles.
Step 13
Now that the hand is mostly wrapped, you have to use up what wrapping is left. Wrap the knuckles again and bring the wrap down to the base of the thumb.
Step 14
Wrap the wrist again.
Step 15
Bring the wrap back up across the palm of the hand from the base of the thumb towards the little finger. Wrap the knuckles again.
Step 16
Bring the wrap back down diagonally across the back of the palm of the hand from the base of your little finger to the base of your thumb. Now wrap the wrist as many times as it takes to use up what is left of the wrapping.
Step 17
Fasten the Velcro. Check that the wraps aren’t too tight and cutting the blood supply off to your fingers. Also check that you cannot move the hands too much – the wrapping should secure the hand and wrist so that it can’t be injured if you throw a punch at an awkward angle.