High flexibility protective glove

A protective glove, which comprises a flexible enclosure for a wearer's and including thumb and fingers, a first plurality of protective pads attached to said flexible enclosure and positioned to have one of the first plurality of protective pads over each knuckle of the wearer's hand when the glove is worn, at least one first protective pad attached to said flexible enclosure and positioned to be over a back of the wearer's hand when the glove is worn, a second plurality of protective pads attached to said flexible enclosure and positioned to have at least two of said second plurality of protective pads be over the wearer fingers when the glove is worn, said first plurality of protective pads being separated from said at least one protective pad by a first break line extending from a base of the thumb of said enclosure and positioned to extend at an angle across the back of the wearer's hand toward the wearer wrist when the glove is worn, said first plurality of protective pads being separated from said second plurality of protective pads by a second break line extending from the base of the thumb of said enclosure in front of said first plurality of protective pads at an angle toward the wearer's wrist when the glove is worn, said first plurality of protective pads being separated from one another by a first plurality of break lines extending between adjacent ones of said first plurality of protective pads from said first break line to said second break line at an acute angle relative to a longitudinal extending direction of the glove.