Rips

[mvhsgymnast]

What can make your hands strong so u have a less chance of ripping?

[gracefulone]

Great question! Have you seen those balls at sports authority or other store that improve wrist, forearm and hand strength? They cost about 8 dollars or so and they work really well-twenty min. a day each hand.

[zeng13]

When you get a calus you must shave the skin back down. Therefore you have less chance of ripping.

I also heard putting tea bags on your hand at night... i've never tried that one...but i heard it works

[Laura]

Tea bags work really well after you have a rip. We are always told to put a teabag on our hand and wrap it in gladwrap over night when we have rips. They heal really quickly!

As for making your hands less likely to rip... i guess the answer is lots of bars to toughen them up!! :-)

[mvhsgymnast]

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Originally Posted by gracefulone Great question! Have you seen those balls at sports authority or other store that improve wrist, forearm and hand strength? They cost about 8 dollars or so and they work really well-twenty min. a day each hand.

do u know what exactly they are called? also do they have them at like fred myers or only sports stores?
thanks

[MyGymStar]

How do you file the rips down, and with what?

[Laura]

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Originally Posted by MyGymStar How do you file the rips down, and with what?

pumice stones are good. That is what I use. You just rub them down with it, but make sure your hands and the stone are a bit damp first

[bogwoppit]

My DD's don't wear grips, so they have to work hard not to get rips. In their bath they sand their hands with a pumice stone, not too much just a bit each bath. Then in bed they sleep with handybalm or bagbalm on their hands with socks over the top. Looks very cute!!! But, neither have had a rip since going back in September, the first month back in gym is very hard on their hands.

When 8 year old dd got her first rip she was so proud, I thought it was so funny. Only the first one was funny though, she doesn't want any more....

[I-Heart-Beam]

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Originally Posted by bogwoppit My DD's don't wear grips, so they have to work hard not to get rips. In their bath they sand their hands with a pumice stone, not too much just a bit each bath. Then in bed they sleep with handybalm or bagbalm on their hands with socks over the top. Looks very cute!!! But, neither have had a rip since going back in September, the first month back in gym is very hard on their hands. When 8 year old dd got her first rip she was so proud, I thought it was so funny. Only the first one was funny though, she doesn't want any more....

This is an incredibly stupid question I know but it is fully driving me up the wall... what material do the socks have to be? Mines are cotton (I think) but they stick to the rip and peeling it off in the morning is incredibly painful and pointless as it rips off the skin that has grown back overnight .

I remember when I was little I thought as soon as you ripped you could start throwing giants and giengers and things.....

I shave off the callus thing too. A nail file works quite well. Takes forever though, I spent most of maths doing it the other day.

[gymer monkey10]

What I do with my rips when I get rips I tape them. My friend puts wet towles on the rip. She says it reallys works.