Punch heavy bag until your hands bleed. That’s good.

Picture of punchingbag gloves, hand wraps and jump rope. All equipment boxers use to train. — ***PUNCHINGBAGSKUNK.COM***

Punch heavy bag until your hands bleed. That’s good.

Greg from Punchingbagskunk.com says, SHUT UP and stop crying about skinned knuckle’s. This is fighting so FIGHT!

It dispels the age old myth of overly protecting your hands during heavy bag punching. Punchingbagskunk.com is not telling people to not use precautions to protect from injury.

But skin burns and structural damage are two different things. Protecting your hands from bone damage from the force your knuckle’s feel from impact while hitting punching bag is a valid concern.

Keep in mind the gloves do a good job of protecting your hands. The same way a sore needs to not be covered to heal faster. The more times you scrape the surface skin off from hitting the bag, causes it to get tougher.

Skin has to be tougher.

Greg from Punchingbagskunk.com explains that skinned knuckle’s is a rite of passage in the fight game. If your not willing to endure scraped up knuckles. Then boxing is not the sport for you.

Greg is a retired professional prizefighter with over 40 years of experience. And when he speaks on the subject. You can best believe he is speaking from experience from his years in the sport of boxing.

Punch (combat)

A punch is a striking blow with the fist.

It is used in most martial arts and combat sports, most notably boxing, where it is the only type of offensive technique allowed. In sports, hand wraps or other padding such as gloves may be used to protect athletes and practitioners from injuring themselves.^[1][2] The use of punches varies between different martial arts and combat sports. Styles such as boxing, Suntukan or Russian fist fighting use punches alone, while others such as Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei or karate may use both punches and kicks. Others such as wrestling (excluding professional wrestling) and judo (punches and other striking techniques, atemi, are present in judo kata, but are forbidden in competitions) do not use punches at all. There are many types of punches and as a result, different styles encompass varying types of punching techniques.

picture of Mike Tyson — ***IRON MIKE TYSON***

If you put Vaseline and lotion on your hands all the time. The skin on your knuckle’s will take longer to toughen up sufficiently to resist the tearing from the force of hitting the bag.

You NEED to rip that skin over and over until it forms a tougher coat of skin on the area that makes contact with the bag. The hand-wraps stabilize your hand protecting the bones.

The gloves reduce some of the force from impact of the punch. But the tiny movement of the hand-wraps on the skin is what scrapes the skin off.

Punching heavy bag until your hands bleed, that’s good.

The same way a broken bone heals stronger than before the break. The skin reacts the same way. Every time you skin your knuckles, it takes more force to skin it again.

And eventually it begins to withstand the force all together.