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Anonymous
Hit the heavybag bare handed, but don't hit any harder than 50%. If at any point you start to feel pain from anything other than skinning your knuckles, stop. After doing this every other day or so for 2-3 weeks, get some bag gloves and some wraps. Put on your wraps and gloves (look up how to put wraps on correctly on youtube or something), and go to town on the bag. 80-90% should be fine with gloves at this point. After 2-3 weeks of every other day with the gloves, take them off and punch bare handed for 2-3 weeks, this time at around 70%. Rinse and repeat.
A few things to note: Never, ever hit any harder than 80-85% without gloves and wraps. Never bend your wrist, and make sure that when you punch you're hitting the bag mostly with your first two knuckles (pointer and middle finger's knuckles), and don't lock your elbow; you should be punching as though you're trying to hit 3-4 inches through the surface of the bag.
And remember, you're not trying to kill the bag.
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