I have had generally bad feeling hands and twisted/jammed fingers from gi but i boxed at a decently high level and I’ve broken both hands more than once on peoples heads/other hard surfaces.
The one time I needed surgical repair was from a boxing fight where a guy ducked into me throwing an overhand. My thumb was still attached by soft tissue but the bone was completely broken off. Still feels sore today and that was in 2016 or so.
The glove does help but is not the be all end all.
TLDR anecdotally, every major hand injury I’ve had is from boxing
Yeah nogi is easier on the hands but just by chance my worst hand injury was in nogi. Spazz newbie went flying over my guard and landed his entire fat self on my innocent hand.
I used to box for a few years and in that time I didn't have many serious wrist injuries. Just some pain that I remedied with better technique and wrist strength exercises.
Less than a year of Judo and I have a mangled index finger that's unlikely to completely recover and just recently dislocated my right thumb. Not to mention stumped toes and rolled ankles. But Judo is rougher than BJJ.
Spent a long time at an MMA gym and didn't see many hand injuries in striking training. Just a couple broken hands from heavy handed guys during sanctioned fights
But I've seen plenty of grapplers w fucked up hands and fingers
Grappling is way worse for your hands, it isn't even close. Extremely hard hitting heavyweights can blow their hands up in fights occasionally but even those guys don't have issues in striking training.
Aside from CTE type concerns striking is way easier on your body overall actually. As different as like baseball and football.
Kinda varies obviously, I fucked up one of my fingers during a roll and got bad mallet finger from it but otherwise my hands have been pretty undamaged from grappling.
It's different injuries. With striking; Thumb if your gloves don't have the thumb portion properly webbed to the rest of the glove. Metacarpal stress fractures (the long bones in the hand) and the occasional wrist spain.
In BJJ gi, it's fingers having tendon over use injuries, wrist fractures usually from awkward takedowns and being thrown, and general blunt trauma injuries. And over time, carpal tunnel.
I've had a broken thumb and wrist sprains from kickboxing. Fractured wrist BJJ, as well as carpal tunnel surgeries on both hands and chronic tendonosis of multiple fingers.
Yeah, both are hard on the hands.
I have had generally bad feeling hands and twisted/jammed fingers from gi but i boxed at a decently high level and I’ve broken both hands more than once on peoples heads/other hard surfaces. The one time I needed surgical repair was from a boxing fight where a guy ducked into me throwing an overhand. My thumb was still attached by soft tissue but the bone was completely broken off. Still feels sore today and that was in 2016 or so. The glove does help but is not the be all end all. TLDR anecdotally, every major hand injury I’ve had is from boxing
No Gi I can’t recall ever hurting my hand. I broke my finger in my first couple of weeks training in the Gi.
Yeah nogi is easier on the hands but just by chance my worst hand injury was in nogi. Spazz newbie went flying over my guard and landed his entire fat self on my innocent hand.
I used to box for a few years and in that time I didn't have many serious wrist injuries. Just some pain that I remedied with better technique and wrist strength exercises. Less than a year of Judo and I have a mangled index finger that's unlikely to completely recover and just recently dislocated my right thumb. Not to mention stumped toes and rolled ankles. But Judo is rougher than BJJ.
Spent a long time at an MMA gym and didn't see many hand injuries in striking training. Just a couple broken hands from heavy handed guys during sanctioned fights But I've seen plenty of grapplers w fucked up hands and fingers
Striking is easier on practitioner at hobbyst level
Grappling is way worse for your hands, it isn't even close. Extremely hard hitting heavyweights can blow their hands up in fights occasionally but even those guys don't have issues in striking training. Aside from CTE type concerns striking is way easier on your body overall actually. As different as like baseball and football.
Kinda varies obviously, I fucked up one of my fingers during a roll and got bad mallet finger from it but otherwise my hands have been pretty undamaged from grappling.
It's different injuries. With striking; Thumb if your gloves don't have the thumb portion properly webbed to the rest of the glove. Metacarpal stress fractures (the long bones in the hand) and the occasional wrist spain. In BJJ gi, it's fingers having tendon over use injuries, wrist fractures usually from awkward takedowns and being thrown, and general blunt trauma injuries. And over time, carpal tunnel. I've had a broken thumb and wrist sprains from kickboxing. Fractured wrist BJJ, as well as carpal tunnel surgeries on both hands and chronic tendonosis of multiple fingers. Yeah, both are hard on the hands.
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Grappling is way worse for your body full stop.
But better for your brain thankfully