Im after a heavy bag that doesnt really move when i punch it.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I find that a bag thats very heavy makes you concentrate on hitting most. I find when it oes swing it's temporary, where as a medium weight bag will provide a certain degree of movement, as an opponent would.

A medium weight bag allows me to envision "steering the opponent."

I want an opponent to move to my right I throw a left hook, he moves right I step to my left, he's entirely to my right.....Things like that you know.

[Chris Nagel]

I find that a bag thats very heavy makes you concentrate on hitting most. I find when it oes swing it's temporary, where as a medium weight bag will provide a certain degree of movement, as an opponent would.

A medium weight bag allows me to envision "steering the opponent."

I want an opponent to move to my right I throw a left hook, he moves right I step to my left, he's entirely to my right.....Things like that you know.

Good insight Don, I agree with you. You'd have to give it a push every time you wanted it to swing again, and which I can imagine could lead to some awkward habits in the ring.

The punching bag that I'm using now is not too heavy, and I'm also able to work on the same things that you've mentioned. I feel that with a 70-80 pound bag I get the best of both worlds, I can work on movement and power. If possible it would also be a good idea to work with different sized bags to put emphasis on different things.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Yeah I agree Chris.

There is a fitness gym I go to and they've got a bag for kick boxing up. The thing is about 2 feet in diameter and must be 200lbs+

I use that in my last two weeks of training, just gunning into it an forcing it to swing, this really primes my "aggresive" punching for competition.

I fiond the "pear shaped bag" or tear drop bags, develop a habit of holding the hands a bit wqide and hooking more than is desirable. I just find that from training on it persona;lly, no observation or anything.

[Douglas]

Yeah I agree Chris.

There is a fitness gym I go to and they've got a bag for kick boxing up. The thing is about 2 feet in diameter and must be 200lbs+

I use that in my last two weeks of training, just gunning into it an forcing it to swing, this really primes my "aggresive" punching for competition.

I fiond the "pear shaped bag" or tear drop bags, develop a habit of holding the hands a bit wqide and hooking more than is desirable. I just find that from training on it persona;lly, no observation or anything.

So I guess there is a bag over 120 lbs.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Yeah man...
In my gym we've got a few custom ones bout 200lbs or so....
Then we've got heaps of light ones and a few tear drops of differing weights.

Its all in the filling though as they're all a similar size.

[RozzySean]

Yeah I agree Chris.

There is a fitness gym I go to and they've got a bag for kick boxing up. The thing is about 2 feet in diameter and must be 200lbs+

I use that in my last two weeks of training, just gunning into it an forcing it to swing, this really primes my "aggresive" punching for competition.

I fiond the "pear shaped bag" or tear drop bags, develop a habit of holding the hands a bit wqide and hooking more than is desirable. I just find that from training on it persona;lly, no observation or anything.

I wouldn't want that to be my only bag, but we have one at our gym, and I use it from time to time. I can see what you are saying. I use that bag to work on combination with hooks and uppercut. We also have that weird skinny bag. I've played around with it, but I would rather use the double-ended for that kind of work.

[Douglas]

Once I saw a punching bag that was soft but very bouncy. When you punched it, it would practically send your fist right back into your face. Seems like it's improve wrist strength.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I shouldn't even be allowed post on the training board anymore I haven't done anything in the past three weeks

[Douglas]

I shouldn't even be allowed post on the training board anymore I haven't done anything in the past three weeks

I just got over a sore throat and bad allergies myself, so now I'm behind too. It's a bad feeling, knowin' that you're just layin' there getting weaker and weaker...