These are the gloves from e-bay. They look pretty reasonable and are a comfortable modern design, pretty reminiscent of most that come out of India. No Pittards palms, but that's no big issue. The big selling feature of these originally would have been the air technology, which is an inflatable bag over the back of the glove and the thumb on the right hand, and the back of the hand on the left.
Now, I wondered to myself, how would this affect flexibility of the glove? Badly would be the answer. Due to the effect of having a large balloon on the back of the hand, bending your fingers becomes that much harder, and hence you have to put more effort into gripping the back. No wonder they didn't take off. If they were shaped, like the Aero gloves, this might work a little better, but you still have the issue that any bag into which air is pumped will try and stretch straight.
So now you all know. To be fair, I don't foresee any problems using them without the airsack, but never mind eh! Nice idea. Shame about the mechanics.
Here are the gloves:
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