[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
titopuente wrote:
I would find a friend who wants to box and work the mitts. Shadow box, mitts, and sparring.
Focus mitts would get my vote as well, provided that you had someone who knew how to hold them correctly and you knew enough to use them effectively.
Then, it would kind of depend on what attributes you needed to work on most.
If conditioning and power were what needed the most work, I’d say go with the heavy bag.
If timing, accuracy and speed were the most important, I’d say go with the top and bottom/double end bag.
If coordination and shoulder endurance were what needed the most work, go with the speed bag.
The mitts are one of the best things out there, but I assumed he didn’t have anyone that knew how to hold them.[/quote]
Yeah, didn’t sound to me like he did either. I was just throwing that out there in case I was wrong.
Heavy bag is a staple brother, really the 3 big things you need to do if your training alone are jump rope, shadowbox, and heavy bag. If you get a partner mitt work and sparring complete it!
I have a gym obv where I train at, but I also tend to get bored at home if I’m just sitting around, so why not hit something? lol
I have a 5 ft tall mirror in my bedroom for some shadow-boxing. No sparring partners around the house tho (so no mitts). Heavy bag is the choice for now; if I ever see a floor to ceiling ball for sale cheap I’ll consider that as well!
[quote]Mouldsie wrote:
If you could only pick one to train with at home (you know- say if you were a poor college student), what would it be and why?[/quote]
I think my favorite Freddie Roach quote answers this “If you can work a speed bag, you can walk into any gym and trick people into thinking you know how to box.” Roach then went on to explain that he uses the speed bag primarily to simulate the chin when training hooks. Otherwise the speed bag is more gimmick than useful tool. You’d be better off going heavy bag and double end bag.
[quote]SRT08 wrote:
Mouldsie wrote:
If you could only pick one to train with at home (you know- say if you were a poor college student), what would it be and why?
I think my favorite Freddie Roach quote answers this “If you can work a speed bag, you can walk into any gym and trick people into thinking you know how to box.” Roach then went on to explain that he uses the speed bag primarily to simulate the chin when training hooks. Otherwise the speed bag is more gimmick than useful tool. You’d be better off going heavy bag and double end bag.[/quote]
Has anyone used any of these 3 bags and able to comment on it. I was thinking the first one doesn’t seem practical but if you could somehow combine the second and third one it would probably work very well.
[quote]ryan.Scott wrote:
Has anyone used any of these 3 bags and able to comment on it. I was thinking the first one doesn’t seem practical but if you could somehow combine the second and third one it would probably work very well.
third one is about like the double end bag, just has a platform. i really don’t like heavy bags with stands either.
do you live in a house or what? if you can, just get a double end bag and a heavy bag. everlast bags are pretty cheap, and i think you can get a double end bag and kit relatively cheap.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
SRT08 wrote:
Mouldsie wrote:
If you could only pick one to train with at home (you know- say if you were a poor college student), what would it be and why?
I think my favorite Freddie Roach quote answers this “If you can work a speed bag, you can walk into any gym and trick people into thinking you know how to box.” Roach then went on to explain that he uses the speed bag primarily to simulate the chin when training hooks. Otherwise the speed bag is more gimmick than useful tool. You’d be better off going heavy bag and double end bag.
Hahahah. Very nice, thanks for that.[/quote]
You don’t by chance have a link to that interview/article? Just curious. My gym has had some new guys come in and work hooks (haymakers really) on the speed bags. The speed bags survived just fine but the little swivel pins broke. Now I have to train so I can keep an eye on the speed bags and school the asshats who think each and every bag is used for power punching.