I’ve recently taken up Krav Maga, and suffice to say I need all the practise I can get if I’m going to feel even remotely competent at striking.
I live in a rented house and can’t wall mount a punch bag so I’ve been looking into buying a Slam Man instead. Whats the consensus on them as regards to usefulness, durability etc? Thanks.
The green thing with lights?
Seriously?
Why not a free standing punch bag stand? the club i used to train kickboxing with used to use one as we moved around alot and it was easy enough to move and then we just stacked a few weight plates on the base
[quote]Gerg wrote:
The green thing with lights?
Seriously?
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I found a less fancy one on Ebay that came alot cheaper. No flashing lights or anything. Basically just a free standing punch bag shaped vaguely like a person.
[quote]HitEmHard wrote:
Why not a free standing punch bag stand? the club i used to train kickboxing with used to use one as we moved around alot and it was easy enough to move and then we just stacked a few weight plates on the base[/quote]
Thanks mate, thats probably the cheaper and more durable option.
ours was made by one of the members who was good with a welder and a pipe bender if not im sure it would be cheap enough to pick up certainly cheaper than a slam man
The slam man’s premise is that you follow the lights to provide you with a workout. However, I think if you are weak at striking, this would be detrimental to your overall performance.
If we assume you are a raw beginner, with absolutely no experience, I would striive to get the mechanics down 1st, before actually striking a bag. Maybe extra time on the focus mits would help. The reason I say this , is that I have seen a lot of beginners get on a bag that is way to heavy for them, and then technique goes out the window. This creates poor habits in the future, like not knowing how to follow through, not knowing how to chamber kicks, etc.
If you feel then you have your technique down, then regarding standing bags, the Century line are the most common, but I would get the biggest one you can, and fill it with sand. Ross Enamit wrote an artice on his web site re: using the standing bag.
If you need to work on your aim or technique, you can go with a dummy or the BOB bag, but these are poor substitutions to live practise. I do like the bob bag for techniques I want to experiment with, but don’t want to use a live partner for (i.e. full neck strikes to eye strikes, just to see what the timing would be, stuff like that).
That being said, if you do not have a competent instructor, and I say this because there are a lot of McDojo Krav Maga studios out there, nothing is going to help your striking past a certain point.