[Chris, I know you are just being helpful and you really don't even have to apologize for any criticism -- I am pretty egoless in this whole thing. I am not trying to prove how great I am, just trying to incrementally get better. I appreciate ALL of your help.]

Bag choice is coach's -- he assigns us to bags, and yes, I likely bruised the knuckles on the hardest bag. He has generally avoided assigning me to that bag, but not this time.

We do move when we hit -- as soon as we quit being absolute newbies, coach has us move and hit.

Yes, I am hitting hard -- really hard for me -- and hoping to hit even harder, but mostly I am working on hitting harder with the jab and letting the power hand take care of itself (but that is the knuckle that primarily hurt.

Today, I did three classes. Our classes are not heroic, but they are pretty serious (about 1:30 of constant moving). That was a lot of hitting, and with your (and Dempsey's) guidance the knuckle not only didn't bother me through all three classes -- in fact it seems to be a little better even. (Of course this was never a 'bad' pain, just a small irritation that I didn't want to get worse.)

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HerbM