thanks for the advice, you're so helpful

What other types of body shots are good? I don't really know how to do straight shots to the body, I only can think of hooks... When I try to hit the bag with a straight punch lower on the bag, it feels very awkward, especially since the bag is hard as a rock down there. I can manage to hit it with a right hook but you said that's not a very safe punch right?


As for the fist thing... When I first got the bag Sunday a week and a day ago, I hit it without gloves for a few minutes I learned a painful lesson... I tore off a piece of skin from my middle finger knuckle, a round piece of skin about 1/2" around, I hit the bag with a right hook on the firm bottom of the bag and the skin grabbed onto the vinyl and tore right off, I was bleeding

It is healing slowly due to me hitting the bag every day. I know it was a stupid thing to do... I didn't think you needed bag gloves...