How thick knuckle pads?

[ShotokanKid]

My knuckle pads are very thin so this question arises... are the pads to protect my knuckles or the person's face. How thick should the gloves be?

[Pacificshore]

Probably a lil of both, but perhaps the idea is to display controlled striking techniques. I assume you are referring to the cloth knuckle pads

[Shito Ryu]

Pads??? For to protect your own hands or opponents body??? Real men don't wear pads. Heehehe jk. Actually search for the hand pads made by Shuraido, they are high quality pads, and are thick enough to cusion the blow to your oppent's face\body. I don't think they are there to protect your knuckles though, thats waht knuckle pushup are for, to toughen up you weak knuckles. I was playin around with my cousin ad we both wore the pads(me a karate student of 2+ years, and he a boxing styled fighter, he had never trained in any MA but that was the way he fought) and by hte time we were done both his hands were bleeding and mine weren't even raw. So just do ALOT of knuckle pushups and then all you will have to worry about is crushing your opponents\friends\families faces in