ASIPRO Wrist Wraps, 18 in

What the maker publishes

• 18 inches — the title states 45 cm, the second bullet states 18”/46 cm
• Sold as a pair
• High-quality seams and a high-quality, extra-wide hook-and-loop closure, fully adjustable
• Strongly reinforced fabric wristbands
• Thumb loops, stated to hold the wrap on the hand and wrist through each lift
• Named for weightlifting, MMA, powerlifting, push-ups and strength training, and also for baseball, yoga, martial arts, boxing, skiing, tennis and bowling

Forty-five, forty-six, and eighteen

The title says 45 cm. The bullets say 18 inches, or 46 cm.

Eighteen inches is 45.72 cm. The title rounds down, the bullets round up, and both describe the same wrap. The inch figure is the one that resolves it, and it is published.

This is worth following across the shelf: the Gymreapers here publishes the same 18 inches as 45.7 cm. Two listings in this family publish this length, and between them it is written three different ways.

What the length is for

Turns around the wrist.

A wrap is wound, not worn. Eighteen inches gives several turns on most wrists — enough to build real support, short enough that the wrap does not run out onto the hand and restrict the joint it is supposed to stabilise.

The thumb loop

It holds the wrap still while it is being wound.

Without one the first turn unwinds before the closure is fastened, one-handed, with the other hand inside the wrap. That is the whole job, and it is done before the set starts — the loop comes off the thumb once the wrap is tight, because leaving it on pulls the thumb under load.

Three of the five wraps on this shelf have one; two publish nothing about it.

What the listing spends itself on

Three of the six bullets are lists of search terms — the same product named thirty different ways.

That is a fact about the listing rather than the product, and it is why the specification here is thinner than the length of the page suggests.

Left off the listing

The width, which decides how much of the forearm the wrap covers.

Any stiffness grade. The closure is adjustable; the fabric’s own firmness is not described.

Availability

From 8 € to 10 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores, on the one reading this page rests on.

The American and British Amazon stores carry it too, priced in local currency — which the euro range above leaves out on purpose.

These figures are what Keepa returned on the day this page was last written. Stock and prices move without notice.