Thread: question about home made double end bag

hey guys,

I've gotten bored of my huge double end bag I bought... so I decided I should make a new one out of a tennis ball.

Now my question is do you guys use elastic rope for the home made double end bag or like simple elastic string (the flat kind you can get at fabric stores)?

.. if elastic string is alright, would it make sense to just use one loong piece that goes through the tennis ball and has a knot right above the tennis ball and right below it? Or would you guys suggest using two separate pieces of elastic one for the top and one for the bottom?

or maybe rope at the top and elastic at the bottom?


... also anyone experiment with anything other than a tennis ball? any thing u guys found that may work better?

Thanks in advance

any input at all guys?

I'm sure a bunch of ppl have probably made double end bags at home.. no?

I was looking for the ideal thing to make the exact same bit of equipment your talking about and i found some rubber string wound up onto a cone like some twine, i never found out where it was bought from or what it was originally used for, i suspect its something for fishing.

You need rubber Balls not to soft, then drill them, so 9mm elastic goes through it or them. If you get 6 and space them with taping both sides of the elastic top and bottom of the balls, and the Balls being different colours theres a nice balance you get for movement put the balls 6" apart. You can even work body shots in while practicing same size as a tennis ball.

Originally Posted by Scrap

You need rubber Balls not to soft, then drill them, so 9mm elastic goes through it or them. If you get 6 and space them with taping both sides of the elastic top and bottom of the balls, and the Balls being different colours theres a nice balance you get for movement put the balls 6" apart. You can even work body shots in while practicing same size as a tennis ball.

you got a picture (or vid) of one of these by any chance I'm a visual learner

Scrap when you say 9mm elastic, you're referring to this stuff right??



and not this...

The round stuff green, is what you need.

Thanks Scrap... I'm going to need to source some rubber balls, and I'll be on my way.

I'll most likely be asking you for some drills that I can do with it once I've constructed this 6 ball double end bag

You should try to make up your own drills and combos as a boxer, i think about new combos/drills all the time, only you know how you fight so go with your abilitys/strengths and adapt them to different scenarios, watch other boxers that fight similair to you, steal all their moves then when youve done that addapt the principles youve learnt from the moves and try to go your own way.

in the long run make it sport specific is my main point, dont just hit it and slip it like its a yoyo that just throws straights (lol yoyo im sure thats on rocky or somthing) lead on the bag like you would an opponent, try to concentrate on finishing the leads/combos on balance so your able to move/counter any counter punches you might get in response to your lead, work on feinting and then getting in position to land good shots in the openings youve created, when you can do this then start using head movement and angles and get it all flowing nicely together aswell as leads etc, dont let the movements overlap eachother and become uncoordinated and messy, stay in control. when your doing head movement make it good footwork and when your throwing shots keep good placement with your feet for quality punches, learn to keep your work tidy even if you feel at times the bag is a bit fast for you at first and pressuring you to break form DONT, if you break form your drilling bad habits, the best statment i heared a while back was 'perfect practice makes perfect' and that couldnt be more true when it comes to boxing.

Get down the basics and get them down good i mean almost perfect, if the basics arent right there will be problems, if anything isnt right in boxing there will be problems. you will find you get yourself in some situations, find and expose these situations in training and try to work sessions around correcting them to avoid them in the ring. dnt allow the bag to pressure you into rushing your work, most of the time in boxing its the basics that win a fight like a solid 1-2, if you have a shit 1-2 your never going to be a complete boxer just like if you have a sloppy jab,.

I find a lot of people waste time in the gym, remember what a training session is about, ultimately it is to make you perform better in the ring, dont forget that, training is not doing 3 rounds of shadow boxing 6 rounds on the bag and 5 rounds of skipping every single time which is fine for fitness/stamina purposes but has very little to do with technique or skills. its just not that simple but i see it in gyms all the time, i see trainers standing their while a fighter is on the bags telling him to keep his hands up, while everything else the fighter is doing is wrong.. next week the guy will be back doing exactly the same workout not looking any better at all, and the trainer is still there telling him to just keep his hands up, like he wouldnt do this if he was in the ring anyway, its daft.

Originally Posted by WayneFlint

You should try to make up your own drills and combos as a boxer, i think about new combos/drills all the time, only you know how you fight so go with your abilitys/strengths and adapt them to different scenarios, watch other boxers that fight similair to you, steal all their moves then when youve done that addapt the principles youve learnt from the moves and try to go your own way.

in the long run make it sport specific is my main point, dont just hit it and slip it like its a yoyo that just throws straights (lol yoyo im sure thats on rocky or somthing) lead on the bag like you would an opponent, try to concentrate on finishing the leads/combos on balance so your able to move/counter any counter punches you might get in response to your lead, work on feinting and then getting in position to land good shots in the openings youve created, when you can do this then start using head movement and angles and get it all flowing nicely together aswell as leads etc, dont let the movements overlap eachother and become uncoordinated and messy, stay in control. when your doing head movement make it good footwork and when your throwing shots keep good placement with your feet for quality punches, learn to keep your work tidy even if you feel at times the bag is a bit fast for you at first and pressuring you to break form DONT, if you break form your drilling bad habits, the best statment i heared a while back was 'perfect practice makes perfect' and that couldnt be more true when it comes to boxing.

Get down the basics and get them down good i mean almost perfect, if the basics arent right there will be problems, if anything isnt right in boxing there will be problems. you will find you get yourself in some situations, find and expose these situations in training and try to work sessions around correcting them to avoid them in the ring. dnt allow the bag to pressure you into rushing your work, most of the time in boxing its the basics that win a fight like a solid 1-2, if you have a shit 1-2 your never going to be a complete boxer just like if you have a sloppy jab,.

I find a lot of people waste time in the gym, remember what a training session is about, ultimately it is to make you perform better in the ring, dont forget that, training is not doing 3 rounds of shadow boxing 6 rounds on the bag and 5 rounds of skipping every single time which is fine for fitness/stamina purposes but has very little to do with technique or skills. its just not that simple but i see it in gyms all the time, i see trainers standing their while a fighter is on the bags telling him to keep his hands up, while everything else the fighter is doing is wrong.. next week the guy will be back doing exactly the same workout not looking any better at all, and the trainer is still there telling him to just keep his hands up, like he wouldnt do this if he was in the ring anyway, its daft.

Excellent post Wayne, Thank you for taking your time out to type that up. There's some great advice in there, and I definitely get what your saying about training every aspect perfectly to prepare for the ring (an actual bout).

Its true, as a beginner I do get caught up in the intricacies of trying to perfect every single punch individually, that I times I forget that there will be an opponent across from me responding and countering every one of those punches I throw. You're right, it is very important to keep that in mind when doing anything (shadow boxing, bag work, etc.)