White_Savage
Mentor
Your grip is your link to well...everything. All your other strength will often be useless without grip strength, especially in fighting. Not only is it important in grabbing/grappling, but a strong grip and muscular forearms give you a sounder and stronger-punching fist.
This one comes from old Karl Gotch, the great American catch-wrestler (back when it was real...y'all did know that the Gracies didn't invent submission grappling, didn't yah?)
This one has done great things for my functional grip strength and endurance in grappling, wielding a stick, etc.
As to your equipment, you need to run right out and buy....a newspaper.
Start out with 2 or 3 sheets, take them by the corner in one hand, and using only that hand with no assistance from other body parts, wad it into as small a ball as you can possibly get. Way too easy?
Just try it awhile
Not only does this lead to strengthening your grip, but it helps with dexterity, since you move your fingers all sorts of ways trying to get the ball of paper more compact. Also supposed to prevent/cure carpal tunnel, but I can't vouch for that part. Edited by: White_Savage
This one comes from old Karl Gotch, the great American catch-wrestler (back when it was real...y'all did know that the Gracies didn't invent submission grappling, didn't yah?)
This one has done great things for my functional grip strength and endurance in grappling, wielding a stick, etc.
As to your equipment, you need to run right out and buy....a newspaper.
Start out with 2 or 3 sheets, take them by the corner in one hand, and using only that hand with no assistance from other body parts, wad it into as small a ball as you can possibly get. Way too easy?
Just try it awhile
Not only does this lead to strengthening your grip, but it helps with dexterity, since you move your fingers all sorts of ways trying to get the ball of paper more compact. Also supposed to prevent/cure carpal tunnel, but I can't vouch for that part. Edited by: White_Savage