The swinging is good I think but just not to the point that it is flying around with every hard punch. If you have a good heavy punch and you know what you are doing then a 70 lb bag is going to be bouncing around like crazy. At this point you lose some realism since no punch you will ever throw on an opponent will make him react like that. 150-200 I enjoy because it is a realistic weight for a human being. That is, how many 70 pound fighters do you expect to be hitting? In addition, the 150-200 pound bags forces you to drive your punches into their targets because it wont react to you unless you do. On a 70 pound bag the slightest hits send it on its way. On a 150-200 you better know what you're doing because the light stuff wont affect it. If you punch hard it will swing for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris N.
At that weight the filling has to be soft.
And also personally i tend not to like skinny and long bags. They react strangely when you punch them. They kind of shake around from top to bottom and do little in terms of swinging. They're no good to me. I like the bags fat gives you a good solid thing to sink into.