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fredag 16 oktober 2009

Reasons to Use a Free Standing Heavy Bag

By Jonathon Hardcastle

Over the years, mixed martial arts has increased in popularity and that has lead to an increase in use for the free standing heavy bag. When compared to traditional hanging heavy bags, they have a lot of benefits. Those benefits are just one reason why fitness gyms, boxing studios, and training centers have starting using them.

One of the big benefits this type of bag has over the older hanging boxing bag is the additional striking surface area. For the mixed martial arts crowd, this is critical as punches are often combined with kicks and knee strikes. A well designed free standing bag will accommodate all of these attacks much better than a hanging bag.

Even a double mounted hanging bag will sway quite a bit if kicked, which is the second advantage of the standing bag. A free standing heavy bag weighs quite a bit more than even the heaviest hanging bag. A water filled standing bag weighs around two hundred and seventy pounds and can easily weight more if filled with sand, as many are. This gives a much more stable bag to punch and kick.

To counteract the lack of movement, the padding on these bags is designed to cushion the blow quite a bit more than a hanging bag. The feel can still be altered though. A bag filled with sand will feel quite a bit more substantial than that same bag filled with water. The individual school may even have a few of each, giving the less experienced strikers a chance to use the water filled and the more advanced students the sand filled to keep it from moving when it is struck.

Also, freestanding bags are more portable than hanging bags. The ability to move around a freestanding bag with ease is just one reason why fitness centers, schools, and boxing centers like using these bags; they can roll in and out. A free standing bag is also ideal when you do not have enough space needed for a wall mount or a ceiling mount.

Another advantage of the standing bag is cost. Because the end user simply puts water or sand into the bag, the amount of materials needed to produce each unit is dramatically lower than most of the hanging bags. The amount of labor to build one is dramatically less as well. Most of the labor of a hanging boxing bag is in the sewing of the pieces together by hand. Because of the design of most standing bags, there is much less hand sewing need.

Finally, you also save money on the cost of shipping. Since these boxing bags are shipped without filling, you will find the shipping costs to be a lot lower than your typical heavy bags. Heavy hanging bags aren?t only expensive to purchase, but some retail stores have delivery limits. Limitations aren?t an issue with a freestanding heavy bag due to their size and weight.

In short, for most people, a free standing heavy bag is just the better choice. Between the multiple styles to choose from, the varying fillers, the varying weights, and the portability, these bags aren?t only popular for gym use, but home use too.

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