How to Wrap Your Hands the Right Way

Before you throw a single punch on the bag, wrap your hands. Wraps protect the small bones and tendons in your hands and wrists and keep your wrist aligned on impact.

Why Wraps Matter

Your hands have dozens of small bones held together by ligaments and tendons. A proper wrap bundles them together and supports the wrist so the force of a punch travels through a solid structure instead of stressing weak points. Skip the wrap and you risk sprains, bruised knuckles and longer-term wrist problems.

Step by Step

• Loop the thumb and bring the wrap across the back of the hand.
• Three wraps around the wrist for support.
• Three wraps around the palm / knuckles.
• Figure-eights between the fingers to pad and lock the knuckles.
• Finish back at the wrist and fasten, snug, never cutting off circulation.

In class we check every new student's wrap. Do it right a few times under supervision and it becomes automatic, repetition is the mother of skill.

Take Care of Them

Wash your wraps regularly, they soak up a lot of sweat. Keep two pairs in rotation so you always have a clean, dry set ready for your next session.