that right there is the best way to protect your wrists when you're boxing training bar none
wrist injuries is one of if not the most common injuries that i see in boxing training on this
video i'm going to give you some methods to be able to prevent your wrists being injured and if
your wrists are already injured with these methods that i give you it will allow you to continue your
boxing training my name is tony jeffries olympic bronze medalist former undefeated professional
seven times national champion european champion welcome to my youtube channel so the chances are
if you've got an injury on your wrist or you feel like an injury is coming on
the reason you're getting that is because you're punching incorrectly and the punch that you're
throwing is probably the hook or the uppercut the bent arm punches is generally the punches
that injure your wrists and the reason being is because you're landing the punch wrong you might
be throwing the hook and turning your wrist before the punch lands if you're turning your wrist when
you're throwing the hook like this it's not strong it's not solid that's going to hurt your wrist the
same with uppercut if you're bending your wrist when you're throwing an uppercut it's going to
damage your wrist you need to make sure it's solid no matter whether it's the straight uppercut or
the hook like this or like this this needs to stay solid so how can you prevent this from happening
and if it's happened already how can you train with a bad wrist well i'm going to show you right
now first thing i want to do is get some of this white athletic tape and i'm going to wrap this
around my wrist but the way i rub it around might be a bit different than what you tend to see
where people are wrapping around the wrist and it'll be like this and that's it what you want
to do you want to get a big section from as high up on your hand as you can here and come past
your wrist joint because this joint here is what we want to protect so it'll look like this i'm
going around i'm coming high up on my hand there so if you notice i've got my fingers open when i'm
putting the tape around the reason being when my i make a fist my wrist expands and if i did the tape
around with my fingers closed and i made a fist it's going to be too tight so keep your fingers
open while you're doing this and now you go around as much as you want but right there i've got my
wrist pretty secure and it's feeling it's feeling good already so that is the first step of doing
this moving on to step number two is wrapping your hands and you should be wrapping your hands before
every single session anywhere but now what we're going to do when we wrap our hands we're going to
do extra protection on the wrists check here i've done a video before of how to wrap your own hands
and on this video i'm going to do it a little bit different because i want to protect the wrist
and that's how i like to wrap my hand starting with the padding first on the front then come
around the thumb now it's time to smother that wrist now remember the joint that we're looking to
protect is here that doesn't mean that we're just going to go around that joint
i want to go a little bit above and a little bit below but really putting lots
of this wrap around that joint which is only going to make it more secure
another thing to do when you're finishing off the wrap you want to put your velcro strap
finishing on that joint because if you see this velcro is thick plastic again that gives less
movement in your wrist there now let's add another extra layer of protection what i
want to do i'm going to put the tape back around this wrist right here just like i did on my hand
before i had the wrap on and i've got opened down begin protecting this joint now I can't hardly
move this wrist so i've got another two more layers of protection that i want to show you
first one when you're putting your glove on if you've got velcro gloves it's important that when
you're pulling it over you want to get the velcro strap to go over the crease this crease is what
moves if you've got the velcro strap over the crease like that it can move very little
and now for the final layer of protection i've got this duct tape what i'm going to do
is put the duct tape around the joint of the glove
and as well come high up here as you can on this as well
now that right there is the best way to protect your wrists when you're boxing training bar none
if you've ever seen back in the day barrera morales fights you see the way they tape the
gloves up they've always taped the gloves up all the way at the top there because
another thing what this does which it's great for and i used to do this for every training session
it pulls the padding to the front of the glove making it way more compact so when you're punching
you can really blast in that power this is a great method a great way the best way
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