Exactly. Good luck finding training partners who will let you hit them full power repeatedly.
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Well to the OP just take advice given and use whats helpful and throw the rest away : mic drop Im out!
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Good luck to the inexperienced guy who can develop a devastating punch technique without any formal training or instruction.
The OP did say he wanted to get formal training eventually.
Indeed, in that case the more training he receives, the less inexperienced he becomes and depending on the discipline, the more effective his punching style.
Obviously this is all semantics. Even if you have a monstrous right hook, this doesn’t automatically make you ‘good’ at self defence.
OP says he is looking at it “mostly for fitness-related reasons” and “indoor cardio during these cold months”. Self-defense was almost incidental to the question he actually asked, the way I read it.
As an indoor cardio tool you can’t get much better bang for your buck other than maybe a kettlebell and a jump rope. That said, if OP has never learned to throw a punch, protect his hands, wrap his wrists etc. it may do more harm than good if he hurts himself or needs to go back and un-learn a bunch of bad habits once he gets a coach.
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Thanks for responses all. I’m sensing a mixed “it depends”. Really by “self defense”, I just meant if I actually had to defend me or my family in a violent encounter, which I almost had to in a very Troublesome situation that happened with another individual at a public park. I was going to buy one online somewhere but might just take my time in the find used one on Craigslist or something for the time being because don’t know if I really want to hang one from my basement ceiling, might just want to wait until I find a reasonable price on one with a stand