Grip wins races.

The most traction in HYROX.

Squeeze less. Finish stronger.

Sled & Stone HYROX glove, palm showing the Stonegrip silicone

Full-finger, with grip where the rope actually runs. No padding, nothing that holds heat.

  • Race in them, then decide. Full refund inside 30 days, used or not.
  • Wrong size? We swap it, we pay the shipping.

You can’t tell whether a grip glove works until your hands are sweating. So sweat in them first.

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The gap

Pros are racing in gardening gloves.Why?

Watch any HYROX race and you'll see it: the best athletes in the world racing in garage and garden gloves. The few gloves aimed at this sport are padded for comfort, not engineered for grip. Soaked hands slip on the sled and the rope. Grip fades on the carries. Lose your grip and you lose time. We're fixing that.

Not an exaggeration. In February 2026, Men’s Journal ran a piece recommending six-dollar hardware-store gardening gloves as the fix for grip on the farmers carry. That’s the bar.

Eight stations. One pair of hands.

First look

All grip. No padding.

Samples are in hand and in testing. Full reveal on race day, 19 September.

Back of the Sled & Stone HYROX glove: breathable mesh, sled mark, and the wordmark down the pinky edge
The back. Mesh you can see through, nothing that holds heat.
Palm of the Sled & Stone HYROX glove showing the Stonegrip silicone
The palm. The Stonegrip, and no padding anywhere.

The glove

Built for grip. Not for padding.

01

The stickiest palm out there

We tested it against every HYROX glove we could buy. Nothing came close, and it holds when your hands are sweating. The rope, the carries, the erg handles, the bag. Wall balls catch like a football in receiver gloves.

02

The Airframe.

A stretch mesh back you can see straight through. It keeps your hands cool between stations, moves with you, and stays exactly where you put it.

03

The Anchor.

A wide adjustable wrist strap that locks the glove to your hand. Ease off your grip and it holds the load instead of shifting.

From the founder

Richard Taylor on his race bike at an AMA Supercross round

I grew up on a dirt bike, and I raced professionally in AMA Supercross and Motocross for six years. Nobody at that level is casual about gloves. Grip is the only thing connecting you to the bike, and comfort is what lets you hold on for a full moto without your forearms quitting on you.

Then I started racing HYROX. Bare hands felt like a disadvantage from the first race, even with chalk. And every glove I tried was either a padded gym glove or a work glove that cooked my hands by the second run. Even gloves I thought were built for the sport let me down.

So I built the one I wanted. This is it.

Richard TaylorFounder, Sled & StoneDesigned with engineers who build gloves for motorsport. Racing HYROX Salt Lake City, 19 September 2026.

Straight answers

Every reason not to buy these.Answered.

Plenty of good racers don’t wear gloves, and plenty of them have a fair reason. These are the ones we hear most, from people in the gym, in race chats, and from athletes who tried a pair once and hated them. Some of these objections are right, and where they are we say so rather than talk you round.

I don't have a grip problem.

Most people don't lose their grip. They lose time squeezing harder to keep it. When the rope is wet you clamp down to compensate, your forearms burn, and you pay for it two stations later on the carries. That's a grip problem wearing a disguise.

Why your forearms fail in HYROX

Gloves make my hands too hot.

Most do. They're padded, lined, and built for outdoor protection you don't need on an indoor floor. Ours is a mesh back you can see daylight through and a single-layer palm. There is nothing in this glove that holds heat.

What to look for in a HYROX glove

I want to race minimal.

So do we. That's the entire design brief. No padding, no reinforcement panels, no bulk, nothing added that doesn't earn its place. They disappear on your hands and just do their job.

Do you need gloves for HYROX?

Gloves are a crutch. My grip will get weaker.

The glove doesn't replace grip strength. It stops moisture from stealing the grip strength you already have. Your hands aren't weak on the sled pull. They're wet.

How to get a better grip on the sled

I'll lose feel on the rope.

Fair, and it's why the palm is one thin layer with no padding anywhere in it. You should feel the rope, not the glove. Anything thick enough to protect you is thick enough to blind you.

How to stop tearing your hands

Aren't gloves against the rules?

No. There is no rule requiring bare hands anywhere on the floor. Chalk is the grip aid HYROX restricts, not gloves. Chalk is allowed on the sled pull and the farmers carry, it has to be the chalk the event provides, and using it at any other station costs you two minutes. The glove is legal at every station on the floor.

Are gloves allowed in HYROX?

Chalk is free.

Chalk works when you're dry. It does nothing once you're soaked, nothing for rope burn, and it's not always available indoors. It wears off halfway through, and chalking up mid-race costs you time you can't get back.

Chalk vs gloves for HYROX

I've never heard of you.

True. We're new. Built by a racer who spent six years in AMA Supercross and Motocross, where nobody is casual about gloves, then couldn't find one for this sport that held when his hands were sweating. That's exactly why the guarantee below exists.

The guarantee

Race them. Risk nothing.

Train in them. Race in them. Put them through everything a race day asks of your hands. We think you’ll wonder how you ever raced without them.

If you don’t love them, send them back within 30 days for a full refund. Even used.

No forms, no conditions, nothing to prove.

Wrong size? We swap it, and we pay the shipping both ways. A glove that doesn’t fit can’t do its job, so getting the size right is our problem, not yours. Measure your hand →

Why “even used” matters: you cannot judge a grip glove without sweating in it. Most return policies in this category are 14 days and unused only, which means the moment you actually test the thing you have bought, you have given up your refund. That is not a return policy. Ours is built so you can find out on the rope, which is the only place the answer exists.

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