Bag Gloves?

[atalaya]

an excellent point. on conditioning: i'd like to say that i always try to use a step method. first teaching the technique, then having a student punch a few hundred times at nothing and retain that technique. once they gain experience, practice striking things like paper (you'd be surprised the number of people who will for whatever reason open their hands as they strike something). work up through sand, pads, grass, wood, stone, metal. of course, once you get up into harder substances, you never want to punch full force and when training with a bag, always use gloves or whatever. a neat idea for conditioning is to place a soft towel on top of whatever you are striking.

*i once made the terrible mistake of striking a metal "I" beam full force. while at the time i was careful not to show any pain or anything, a day later it was impossible to hide my stupidity- my middle knuckle had swollen to three times its normal size and i couldn't close my hand. USE PROTECTION!