Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25542775-20140213234732/@comment-4041420-20140215001705

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.