Justin Blade:

Review by Justin Blade for MMA Gel Leather Fight Gloves, Medium
Rating:
These martial arts gloves feel amazingly luxurious and comfortable while providing full knuckle, back of hand and half finger padded coverage as well as “Ridge Hand” or thumb side coverage for those chops. Sadly the “Knife Hand” or pad side of the hand doesn’t have the same full coverage although the padding from the knuckles and the thick leather of the palm does reduce impact somewhat for that, but not the same as intentional padding for it would be. Also the palms are not really padded except by the thick leather, as far as I can tell, so for open hand fighting it’s far from perfect if alot better than having nothing at all to cover/pad the palm. Also fingers can’t be separated, which is also a problem for many open hand techniques but they have much more flexibility opening and closing than so many gloves out there that for grappling, at least, it’s not a hindrance at all. Also wrist is supported tho not padded (for dangerous and only specialty martial artist techniques regarding the back of the wrist). Regardless of it’s “flaws”, it’s a quality glove, definitely better than the vast majority out there.

UPDATE:

The company actually saw my reviews, appreciated and discussed very amicably with me! Excellent company that really wants to hear what it’s customers think. I really understand why they made some design decisions now and we may see some new models based on customer input but for their intention this really is a remarkable glove. Grapplers! Mixed Martial Artists! Pick this one up!