My gloves arrived a day earlier than I expected and I couldn't wait to get back to the blackberries shredding my arms and legs! These amazing gloves evened the odds in my spiked battle! They are thick but flexible enough to grab and squeeze the vines by the roots. The spikes now work in my favor as they stick to my gloves without piercing my skin, giving me more room to rip them from their former home. Now I need a shirt and pants of the same material, and I will be invincible in the drying sea of vile vines that was once my backyard.