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There are lots of people who think that training with a punching bag is not for them as they do not have the required punching/boxing techniques that professional boxers use while punching a bag; but that’s not true.
Boxing is an amazing sport with millions of fans from around the world following its events and thousands practicing it to achieve their goal of becoming a champion.
The use of training equipment similar to a punching bag can be traced back to ancient civilizations, where soldiers and fighters used various forms of equipment to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.
Headgear is an important piece of protective gear in all sports, especially combat sports. There are different categories of headgear each proving a certain level of protection.
Most martial arts’ pioneers and practitioners teach and practice martial arts as procedures of self-defense and fighting. Therefore, we can argue that the main objective of learning and practicing martials arts is to know and be ready how to defend yourself against an aggressor. In other words, all types of martial arts try to answer the question of “how one can successfully defend oneself against attack by a bigger, stronger, and aggressive opponent”.
Although hand wraps add an extra layer of support and padding to trainees' hands and knuckle, which is good, the main objective of them is not to protect or pad you knuckle; instead, they are primarily used to provide a solid rock-like fist, by preventing fingers as well as knuckles sliding or breaking on each other while punching or blocking.
