Well this is my first post here so I hope I make it worthwhile.How you hit tha bag will greatly vary depending on what you plan on working.For example if you wanna hit tha bag to work on speed,I would suggest wrist wraps,or if you wanna shell out a little more money,get gloves with tha wrap around band on them. Now if you wanna hit tha bag to work on strikes or how you would hit a person go bare knuckle with nothing,mainly I say this because if you have to defend yourself your not gonna have time to slap on gloves or wrist wraps.But going raw can really shred up your knuckles sometimes. If your looking to harden your hands,I'd say get a sandbag and blast away on it.For kicks I'd start out somewhat slow,just to get accuracy on point.Then gradgually kick harder and faster for longer periods of time.Then gradgually work in to kicking low mid then high,then switch it up a little at varying sppeds with all of tha kicks. I hope this helps