The Ringside Chainlink Swivel Model/SKU # PS. It costs around $20. It's of a nice Solid construction. I found it to be a nice fast swivel.
Most baggers know what the Chainlink Vs Ballhook game is all about. But this is the first swivel other than a ball-hook that i have ever hit on, and now i know why ball-hooks are the choice of most baggers that do anything outside of straight punches. If i were going to do some speed bagging in the "boxing training style" i think i would be happy with using this swivel. I never really put any of my faster bags on this thing, mainly because it's kind of a pain to remove one bag, and hang another. But i can imagine with any of the faster bags on this swivel , this thing would FLY.
What the ball-hook swivel brings in one word is, consistency. I did some Okay bagging on this chainlink swivel, but every now and then when i went to change the direction of the bag, the hinges on the chainlink would not be lined up right to bend at that moment , and the swivel's hinge system would lock up for just a split second. More times than not this Locking of the hinge would cause the bag to "helicopter" out of control. It is hard enough to deal with sending the bag off in a direction you never intended it to go when you know you mis-hit it, but when you know you're making clean accurate contact with the bag, and it goes flying off because of the swivel's design, that's almost impossible to tolerate.
Anyways i purchased this swivel to chop it in to pieces, and to try to make a good ball-hook swivel out of it as a fun project. When i first opened the box and pulled out this nice shiny swivel, i was thinking "am i going to be able to take this brand new swivel and cut it up?" After hitting bag on it for about 30 minutes, i had no problems with carving this thing up like a Christmas goose.
Here's a video of just after i first installed this swivel on my board, and gave it a test run.
Most baggers know what the Chainlink Vs Ballhook game is all about. But this is the first swivel other than a ball-hook that i have ever hit on, and now i know why ball-hooks are the choice of most baggers that do anything outside of straight punches. If i were going to do some speed bagging in the "boxing training style" i think i would be happy with using this swivel. I never really put any of my faster bags on this thing, mainly because it's kind of a pain to remove one bag, and hang another. But i can imagine with any of the faster bags on this swivel , this thing would FLY.
What the ball-hook swivel brings in one word is, consistency. I did some Okay bagging on this chainlink swivel, but every now and then when i went to change the direction of the bag, the hinges on the chainlink would not be lined up right to bend at that moment , and the swivel's hinge system would lock up for just a split second. More times than not this Locking of the hinge would cause the bag to "helicopter" out of control. It is hard enough to deal with sending the bag off in a direction you never intended it to go when you know you mis-hit it, but when you know you're making clean accurate contact with the bag, and it goes flying off because of the swivel's design, that's almost impossible to tolerate.
Anyways i purchased this swivel to chop it in to pieces, and to try to make a good ball-hook swivel out of it as a fun project. When i first opened the box and pulled out this nice shiny swivel, i was thinking "am i going to be able to take this brand new swivel and cut it up?" After hitting bag on it for about 30 minutes, i had no problems with carving this thing up like a Christmas goose.
Here's a video of just after i first installed this swivel on my board, and gave it a test run.
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