Customer Reviews

Everlast 4308 Genuine Leather Speed Bag Gloves

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4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have been hitting the speed bag for many years and have found that both TITLE and EVERLAST seriously "miss the boat" on speed bag gloves.

First, the main part of your hand that you use to hit the bag is the part you cannot see when you are hitting it - the meaty part near your pinky. What happens from repeated strikes is severe pain without proper wraps or gloves.

Both TITLE and EVERLAST do not include any real padding in this area on any of their gloves. They rely solely on the surrounding leather - holding the useless pads in place for your protection. Why they put a dumb piece of weighted material for you to smash you hand into the speed bag/heavy bag and then do not include proper padding - is beyond me.

ADVICE: Buy wraps/padding/gel wraps for under TITLE gloves. They make better speed bag gloves and do not utilize the old "quarters in my knuckles" method.

Additionally people - hit the speed bag low!!! I see too many people (men and women) at the gym hitting a speed bag that they can barely reach. It should be chin-high - and not much higher than that. Small circles with the arms always up.

Til next time,

Tony M.
Nawlins

You'll need another pair of gloves if you have a heavy bag and actually want to do more than tap it. These gloves just don't offer enough protection and shock absorption.

There's one more thing you should know about this glove, it has a small metal bar handle in the middle for when you clench your fist, and trust me, the handling on this glove is a dream come true.

With softness, easy off and on, and grip, I would recommend this for your hands.

Your fist will thank you.

These are great! Very comfortable-no regrets. I ordered a size that may have been a little big but with the hand wraps it worked out perfect. Love the vent in the palm too-hands never feel too hot.

I think anyone who works out on a heavy bag has these. They aren't really speed bag gloves, they are bag gloves. If you train as a boxer, you wrap your hands and use regular boxing gloves for most of your work, but these are for hitting things that don't hit back.

Because they offer minimal protection/padding, you use them on speed bags and heavy bags. There's no other way to train yourself to punch correctly unless you leanr to drive through the bag, and there's no way to teach your body to holds your hands correctly on punches unless you are forced to lock that wrist. Pain is instructive when you start out.

I can see pros and experienced amateurs just working exclusively with regular gloves (except for speed bags and the like), just to keep focused on realistic training. However, every single boxer started with a pair of these, and you will, too.

You will stink them up, the cheap seams will chafe your wrists, and somehow you'll never lose them. You may graduate to other gloves, but these will always be a reliable backup. No one steals them because everyone has their own smelly pair. A necessity.

Fred

I use these for both a speed bag and for a heavy bag. I have other gloves for the heavy bag but sometimes it is just easier to not switch.

I have had mine for years. I do weights and then work out on the heavy and speed bag for 4 or 5 minutes and then go back to weights. I have been pleased with the gloves and I have had them for more than 5 years. I am getting ready to buy wrist wraps because I am hitting the bag hard enough to cause some wrist problems and need extra protection.

I bought mine at a local sporting goods store about 8 years ago. Maybe the gloves made today are not as good.

They are great! I used them to hit focus mitts and the hands and knuckles are very well protected against cuts and abrasions.

Same good quality Everlast product that I would have received if I purchased these gloves at the sporting goods store. And, much more convenient and time efficient. A pleasant experience.

These gloves are well made leather gloves with an iron bar for good grip but they're very light and offer no support for the wrist or hand. In addition, the padding is very thin. I wouldn't recomend them for heavy bag or working with a trainer. They're probably fine for the speed bag.

If you're going to use these gloves, at the very least also get yourself a pair of hand wraps or, like me, you'll probably loose some skin from your knuckles.

For not very much more money, you can get gloves that offer significantly more protection.

These gloves came with my bag and they are more than comfortable for when I was first getting used to it.

I'm giving it 3 stars for now because something about the internal material rubbed my knuckles the wrong way and since I don't want to stop working out I have a near dime sized perpetual scab on my pinky knuckles.

I'm going to purchase another pair at which point I'll come back and change my review relative to those.

Edit: So I'm downgrading to a two because these gloves would not stop scabbing my knuckles and once I went at the bag for over an hour I took off the gloves to find my hands were complete fubar. They may have been a size too large but the material inside is what I'd say is to blame.