MMA Gear Review: Windy Training Gloves

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MMA Gear Review: Windy Training Gloves

Written by Mike on October 17, 2008 – 9:18 am -

This is a review of Windy training gloves for training punches. It was submitted by a reviewer who is primarily a colored belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner training Muay Thai for a few months now. This is of course, for future mixed martial arts training. Typical routine at the mma gym involves bag work, mitts and sparring. A cheapskate, the reviewer wanted to use only one pair of gloves for training kickboxing.

The reviewer uses a pair of 16 oz. Windy training gloves with a velcro wrap and is similar (or probably exactly the same as) the product pictured above. It was purchased from an online mma gear store. Here is his review below.

“Windy training gloves have a comfortable fit with wraps. Also I feel like wrists are supported more with my Windys that when I tried other gloves before. The velcro is quite strong as well. I guess thats good when you don’t want them getting thrown off your hands during muay thai sparring. But plenty of times, I’ve needed a friend to take the velcro off when I’m done for the day. When I go for the thai clinch on my training partner, his neck is protected from the velcro on my Windys. Unlike my neck which occasionally gets a few scratches from his [brand name deleted] gloves which sucks big time.

“After a lot of use [about 3 months] with the gloves in mma training, the pair is still comfortable in fit and does not look like it will be falling apart anytime soon. So I will say the gloves are durable.

“One thing though, when I just bought the WIndys, they were a little hard so my partner asked me to lighten up during training so he doesn’t get roughed up too much. They got much softer around the 2nd or 3rd week of use.”

To summarize, the Windy 16 oz training gloves have a great fit, are durable and have excellent Velcro straps.