Why Eastside sparring gloves are different from the rest?

Eastside provides some of the best quality sparring gloves on the market as it is crucial to have a good pair!

Sparring is an important element of training to those practising boxing as a hobby or looking to become a professional boxer. You can spend hours improving your power and timing in front of a punch bag but to improve reactions and performance in the ring you need to do some sparring with a good sparring
partner.

Sparring can be either body sparring or open sparring. Body sparring is where the boxers can punch from the neck to the waist. In open sparring, punches can be aimed towards the head as well. It is important that your hands are protected during both with a good pair of sparring gloves and your head with a good quality
head guard.

Eastside sparring gloves have extra padding that can protect your fingers, palms and knuckles. When you first start sparring, it can be quite tough at the beginning and you need some good sparring gloves. If a beginner, we recommend you use our Active Training Glove that is inexpensive but made with a good quality PU and is very well padded.

It is as important to the beginner as it is to the professional to have a good pair of sparring gloves. There is a greater risk in sparring than all the practising a beginner will have done with a relatively harmless punch bag. A beginner in sparring will often loose control and blindly attack his/her opponent as a natural defence mechanism as one feels pain.

Therefore, sparring gloves are designed to protect your opponent from being caused serious injury as well as yourself. This is equally so for children in school boxing who are even more likely to hit back without restraint as they forget it is a sport. That is why at Eastside we have put together boxercise boxing sets and combo boxercise sets that offer our fantastic quality sparring gloves and hook and jab pads at even better prices so that schools and youth clubs can ensure that they can afford the best quality sparring gloves and not miss out.

Mass produced branded sparring gloves are entirely different form Eastside gloves. They are often poorly padded and poorly stitched meaning they are not hard wearing and more importantly can be dangerous.

Eastside sparring gloves are long lasting and well padded to protect your hands and the opponents head and body during sparring practice. They are hand made by craftsmen who continuously check gloves for imperfections and strive to use the best quality padding and cover materials they can source. Eastside sparring
gloves are strong while being soft inside and made from the most durable materials. They are thick and cover the whole hand.

Sparring gloves need to fit, too tight and they can be restraining, too big and loose, they can become cumbersome and ineffective. Therefore eastside offers a large range of sizes.

A very simple guide is as follows:

The heavier the glove, the more padding it has.

Purchasing sparring gloves from Eastside could not be easier. Please browse through our range of Sparring Gloves, whether it a resilient but more affordable glove like our Active Plus Training Glove or our top of the range buff leather Pro Sparring Glove, we will have your required weight in stock. If you are looking for
several pairs of sparring gloves, be sure to look at our Combo boxing sets as well as our Boxercise boxing sets.

We hope you enjoy them!