Savate boxing gloves - Right boxing glove size? - How to wrap your hands for savate?

If you are starting your savate training, the first thing you need are the boxing gloves. At the beginner level you can start with any indoor sports shoes and indoor sports clothing but boxing gloves are something you need very soon to practice.

Good boxing gloves for savate?

For savate you don't need any special savate boxing gloves. You can use any normal boxing gloves. There are many brands that sell boxing gloves and prices start from 20€ and naturally there is no upper limit. However I can say that you need to practice very long before you will get any advantage of boxing gloves that cost more than 100€. There are many good boxing gloves at the price range 50-90€. I prefer Metalboxe brand's boxing gloves but to be honest there are many other brands (Lonsdale and Everlast for example) that sell good boxing gloves as well. More important than the brand is the right size of your boxing gloves.

What is the right boxing glove size?

Boxing glove sizes refer to the weight of the boxing glove. Below I listed what are the best sizes for different boxers:

• 4 oz boxing gloves are very rare. To be honest I don't think I've ever seen that size boxing gloves. They are for babies and toddlers that weigh less than 20kg. If you want your baby to go to the babyboxing you may want to buy these but there are not many shops that sell these.
• 6 oz boxing gloves are the normal children size boxing gloves. Usually 6oz sizes are recommended if child weight is below 25 or 30kg. If it's more than that I would go for 8 oz size.
• 8 oz is right boxing glove for bigger kids, teenagers and very small adults (weight below 60kg). My female training colleague who is appr. 160 cm tall and very skinny uses 8 oz boxing gloves just like my friend's small teenage son. If boxer weighs 25-60kg this is most likely good size.
• 10 oz boxing gloves are right size for average size women and smaller than average size men. I think 10oz is the most sold boxing gloves for women.
• 12 oz boxing glove is the standard size for average size men. I think 12oz boxing gloves are the most sold boxing gloves for men.
• 14 oz boxing gloves are for big men and for those who prefer heavier gloves because they like the feeling it gives to the training.
• 16 oz gloves are for over 100kg boxers and for those who prefer heavier gloves because they like the feeling it gives to the training.

Don't forget the hand wraps!

Hand wraps are small but extremely important part of the boxing training. Their function is to both protect your hand and protect your boxing gloves from your sweaty hands. There is no way to wash inner parts of your boxing gloves and if you use them without hand wraps they will very soon start smelling extremely bad because your hands become sweaty when you train. So it's very important to use hand wraps each time you use boxing gloves. Of course it's also important to wash your hand wraps frequently.

There are two kinds of hand wraps:

1. Easy to wear inner gloves that are like simple fingerless glove. They don't provide much protection to your hand but they protect your glove from sweaty hands. They are ok if you train mainly techniques and don't use full power when you practice punches. They are easy to wear and protect your glove.
   
2. Real hand wraps that you literally wrap around your hand. They protect your hand far better than those simple inner gloves. I strongly recommend you to use these real hand wraps in all training even though it takes few minutes more to wrap your hand because they protect your hand much better. What I also like to emphasize is that these are really the only option if you are doing some intensive boxing training and you are training punches using full or even almost full power.

How to wrap your hands for savate and boxing

Good hand wraps are useless if you don't use them in the right way. Actually there are several good ways to wrap your hand but in the video below you see a very good basic method how to wrap your hand before savate training:

What if I don't have much money and I want to find the cheapest boxing gloves and hand wraps? - The cheapest boxing gloves and hand wraps

As I mentioned earlier I prefer Metalboxe boxing gloves but to be honest the brand isn't very important especially in the beginning. If you want to find very cheap boxing gloves and hand wraps you can find them extremely cheap for example from the AliExpress online shop, see linkbanner below. I have bought my all hand wraps there and also boxing gloves for my children.