Gel Padded Boxing Handwraps are actually boxing gear. They are used to tie around the hands to prevent wrist sprains, broken cartilage in the fingers and skin abrasions. It is sweat-absorbent, snug and relatively comfortable. A key role of hand wraps is to protect the wrist, because many people out of boxing to hit the sandbag, the wrist is easy to twist to fold to, but with the hand wraps fixed is not so easy to hurt