Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25542775-20140213234732/@comment-679780-20140215003011

RnR wrote: The wrappings are for parkour reasons. Parkour orginated in France around the 1980 and people participate in it mostly the wrappings in order to get a better grip of certain edges and to prevent scraping on wall runs and turn-vaults on thick objects. Given that the Sonic Boom tv series is French animated and Sonic and his friends do parkour on the daily, it would make sense that they all are prepared.

Hehe, I decided to make my character Mystic Monkey how he would look in Sonic Boom and parkour is his thing. I've given him hoodie and he bandages his sleeves for that reason.

But still, that doesn't give liable excuse why they bandage there shoes. At the amazing speed they go through, the friction will just wear through the bandages in a matter of hours.