Tiger Paws as a Yoga Wrist Support
A popular misconception about wrist supports in general, including our Tiger Paws, is that they prevent the wrist from flexing at all and hold the wrist in a locked straight position. I was confused about this myself when I was first introduced to Tiger Paws. I asked myself, how can someone do yoga, where it’s necessary to bend the wrists for most poses, if their wrist is locked straight by a wrist support?
The answer is – they don’t lock your wrist in a straight position! The Tiger Paw merely provides extra support during the flexing of your wrist to help prevent soreness, or in some cases injury. You can think of it as strapping on some extra muscles in your wrist. Depending on how stiff you adjust the Tiger Paw through the use of our plastic and foam inserts, and the tightness of the Velcro straps, you control how much support it provides.
Watch Elaine provide a great demonstration in this video doing some fantastic yoga poses, makes me want to take up yoga!
Filed under Yoga Wrist Supports by on Jan 20th, 2011. Comment. 
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Hi, in the past I have purchased skin colour (sand) waterproof tiger paws. Are these no longer available from any supplier? Pls let me know. I am ordering from Australia..are there any local stockists? Joan
Hi Joan,
No, the beige waterproof Paws are no longer available. We were not happy with the quality of that material, hence the change. Hopefully in the future we will have more colors in the new material, but for now it is just the black model.
Steve
if you live in queen creek, Arizona and you orderd them on a friday what day will you get them
Hi Gym Jerk,
Delivery to AZ. will be pretty quick. When you receive an email saying that your item is shipped, expect it to take 4-5 business days from that point in time.
Steve