What Should You Fill Your Punching Bag With?
11:54 PM // 0 comments // sb blogger // Category: Self-defence //By Akuma Kamigawa
You have purchased a punch bag and in order to save some dollars you bought an empty one and now come the problem of filling up the bag. A lot of people ask themselves this same question when making such a purchase. The reason being, that the shipping fees for 100-150 lbs are huge. So in order to save a few, you go ahead and purchase one that is not filled hoping you will find enough rags at home to fill it up with. Good luck with that.
Sand and Sawdust? So 19th century. Too many broken wrists and other injuries occurred. The bags filled in this manner are hard as a rock. Kicking had the same effect on it - pain. The latter was not such a big issues due to the fact they didnt do a lot of kicking back then, except for the Chinese and Taiwanese ( Sanda and MT ). They used rice filling for their bags, which was also unbrarable.
16 OZ gloves are called goliaths, caused nowadays no one uses them anymore. Int he early 20.hundreds people used to wear only huge melon-shaped leather gloves. The phrase huge nowadays means 10 oz ( Muay Thai People ). The MMA is hitting the scene and hitting it hard (literally). Their view of a glove is a thin piece of leather connected to your hand. A fighter would be better of hitting a brick wall.
Today's bag separate to normal punching bags and the so called "heavy" bags. The ladder are still close to the weight of the old fashioned ones but softer to the touch none the less. Most of the manufacturers use cotton rags (shredded textile) to fill the bags with. This gives it the right volume, weight and hardness. Some providers (especially Chinese) use a component of shredded rubber, which they get from shredding used tires. This is convenient and easy to fill up the bag with but lacks the softness and usually ends up settling on the bottom and hardening the bottom part of the bag.
So if you have bought an empty bag my advice would be to check your local community for a textile industry based company that would have any textile leftovers which would end up in the trash anyhow. Any cotton/polyester type will do.
Sand and Sawdust? So 19th century. Too many broken wrists and other injuries occurred. The bags filled in this manner are hard as a rock. Kicking had the same effect on it - pain. The latter was not such a big issues due to the fact they didnt do a lot of kicking back then, except for the Chinese and Taiwanese ( Sanda and MT ). They used rice filling for their bags, which was also unbrarable.
16 OZ gloves are called goliaths, caused nowadays no one uses them anymore. Int he early 20.hundreds people used to wear only huge melon-shaped leather gloves. The phrase huge nowadays means 10 oz ( Muay Thai People ). The MMA is hitting the scene and hitting it hard (literally). Their view of a glove is a thin piece of leather connected to your hand. A fighter would be better of hitting a brick wall.
Today's bag separate to normal punching bags and the so called "heavy" bags. The ladder are still close to the weight of the old fashioned ones but softer to the touch none the less. Most of the manufacturers use cotton rags (shredded textile) to fill the bags with. This gives it the right volume, weight and hardness. Some providers (especially Chinese) use a component of shredded rubber, which they get from shredding used tires. This is convenient and easy to fill up the bag with but lacks the softness and usually ends up settling on the bottom and hardening the bottom part of the bag.
So if you have bought an empty bag my advice would be to check your local community for a textile industry based company that would have any textile leftovers which would end up in the trash anyhow. Any cotton/polyester type will do.
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Want to find out more about punching bag stands, then visit Akuma Kamigawa's site on how to choose the best punching bag stand or you could look into getting a Free Standing Punch Bag for your needs.
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