Our latest Pro Fist Principles, also known as the curved grip bar. The MCP Connect was developed through meticulous study of the hand’s anatomy and alignment on impact to produce an important change in glove construction that allows for cleaner force transfer and more protection without changes to the padding.
Why Does The Grip Bar Matter?
If a punch lands heavily across the ring and pinkie knuckles, impact shifts toward the outside of the hand, a more vulnerable structure that is easier to overload.
Proper fist alignment keeps the index and middle knuckles forward, creating a stronger line through the hand, wrist, and forearm.
The Perfect Punch
The strongest punch line runs through the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals (behind the index and middle finger).
This alignment puts stronger structure behind impact, helping force travel cleanly from the knuckles through the wrist and forearm.
Our Solution
We meticulously studied the deep transverse metacarpal ligament and its connection to the knuckles, ensuring the gloves' grip bar naturally aligns with the shape of the hand.
MCP Connect Grip Bar
The Anatomical Grip Bar helps align the fist inside the glove. When your fingers close around it, the hand is encouraged into a natural punching shape, with the index and middle knuckles sitting forward as the lead contact point.
Better hand position. Better force transfer. Less load on the vulnerable outside of the hand.
Innovation rarely happens all at once.
Boxing gloves have been shaped for generations by craftsmanship, experience, and fighter feedback. We believe the next step is not to replace those foundations, but to strengthen them with modern science and research.
Up until now, if you wanted to develop a more protective glove, you would redesign the padding, adjust the layering, and make every change you could to the foam. This is great, and we still desire to make these changes with our new 6-layer construction for the Vector training gloves, but there is a whole category of protection found in hand alignment and impact absorption through the hand's natural mechanics.
This is what we wish to innovate in our gloves to separate them, not just by speaking to boxers but by investing in X-rays, wind tunnels, and more to test, measure, and verify that the alignment of our gloves is best, as well as the padding, not instead of the padding.
Sometimes an experiment will confirm what we believed; other times it will prove us wrong. Both move us forward. Because if there is even a 1% improvement left to find, we believe it is worth looking for.
And we intend to find it.
