taped wrists

My son tapes his wrist for two reasons, first for support and second to help protect his wrist when he drops down for a ball in the dirt. The inside of the wrist, when bruised, can take a long time to heel. he also wears a 3 or 4 inch forearm band just below the elbow toward the wrist again to protect his forearm from balls kicking up from the dirt.
As you can guess, he catches for two pitchers that throw alot of hard breaking balls in the dirt.

My son has only worn tape on a injured hand/wrist. I would think a real tape job on the throwing hand would limit wrist movement and negativly impact throwing velocity.

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What is it for???

It looks good....that's why it's called "TV Tape."

i onyl wore it on my catching wrist because it gave a little more suppose so it SEEMED (maybe just mental) easier to stickthe low pitches

Mostly a mental thing or as Bulldog19 indicates --- for show. I remember when my son was in high school he injured his wrist while catching. It was taped and within a week every catcher within 50 miles were taping their wrist. There have been times where a player has needed to reinforce the wrist and tape works quite well but ----

Baseball is a mental game and many "things" players do are based on superstition and rituals. We could start a new thread on this topic. Some players even write messages on their tape.

Toldforthis, what exactly does your son wear for forearm protection? I've seen these forearm guards and wondered if they would be restricting or even hot into the warmer months...

The only thing my son wears is a 4" wristband on his catching hand.

I tape my left wrist because it stiffens it,and I can frame inside pitches better.

iowabbmom,
He uses a 4" cloth sweat band only on his glove hand. this helps to lessen? the impact of the ball on his forearm. Also he only tapes the glove wrist because he brusied the tendon on that wrist 2 years ago and took about three months to heal completely. He tried the AK2 glove with the wrist guard but hated it.

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Toldforthis, what exactly does your son wear for forearm protection? I've seen these forearm guards and wondered if they would be restricting or even hot into the warmer months...

The only thing my son wears is a 4" wristband on his catching hand.

I wore a 4" wristband that had a built-in pad for catching. It wasn't real hard or real thick, but it did help. I don't recall ever taping my wrists. And taping your wrists is not going to do much in the way of padding...

I hurt my thumb once and it hurt like heck to move it around. I taped it up and to secure it down I would wrap it around my wrist. Still hurt but limiting the movement helped out a lot.

When it stopped hurting I quit taping.

The forearm guards I saw looked like something you'd wear for football, not baseball. I can't remember what website I saw them on.

He's pretty happy with just the wristband on his catching hand. It's somewhat padded, almost like a memory foam.

I looked where I had gotten mine from, and I can't find what I had. They were specifically for catchers and I had two of them. Sometimes I'd wear one on either wrist/forearm and other times I'd just wear one on the left arm. I didn't like it on the right wrist too much because it would slide down and mess with my hand...

OK, I looked online again and I saw them at onlinesports.com - baseball inner forearm guards. They look really bulky....

Definitely not what I wore.. mine looked like simple wrist bands.

Those might be useful for something to wear in practice though. I'm not so sure I'd wear them in a game.. I just don't see myself doing it.

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:
Definitely not what I wore.. mine looked like simple wrist bands.

I bought a pair for my young catching son. They are black wrists bands about 4" long and they have a piece of plastic inside of half of the band.I picked them up at Sports Authority. I checked their website and do not see them posted. They are in the baseball section of the stores here.

Coach, any idea on a brand name? I can't remember what mine were, but I think if I knew it'd help to find them easier..

Evoshield as worn by Evan Longoria....

Son has one and the protective insert is molded to the arm when first opened and inserted in the wrist guard.

Find it here:

evoshield

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:
Coach, any idea on a brand name? I can't remember what mine were, but I think if I knew it'd help to find them easier..

No name or logo on it. If I get by the store this week I'll pop in and see if they have any and get you the name. The pad/plastic is sewn in on his.

That evoshield stuff is nice.

Little League here required all pitchers to wear a heart guard and the one they supplied was very restricting (it strapped around the neck and attached to the front of the pants), so we purchased the one from evoshield. He said it was comfortable and not at all restricting.

I'll have to look into getting him the wrist guard.