I have been going to the Title Boxing store in my area and exchanging bags, they have been very accomodating so far. I settled on a small pro-mex. Here is the deal, when i hit it, it seems to want to spin the laces around to face my direction, even though i purposely start with them facing to my right. I know bags can't be perfectly shaped. So is this something to worry about, or is it just my lack of skill at this point? The guy at title said that one customer came back 9 times, so i could go back if needed. Just wondering about your thoughts on this, thanks.
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ok this is technical but i think depending on the swivel and weight of the bag this will happen. sometimes the swivel controls the bag instead of the bag controlling the swivel. if your using a chain link then the laces will always be front or back. a u bolt will make laces on the side. on a ball hook my promex will always find its way with the lace to the side. my everlast pro 6x4 will never turn on me with a ballhook. this being said......my swivel leads my promex while my everlast bag leads the swivel. i dont have any other bags to really compare
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Originally posted by jumpcannon View Post......my swivel leads my promex while my everlast bag leads the swivel. i dont have any other bags to really compareSpeed Bag
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I just dont have enough experience at this point to know what to do. I will probably lay awake tonight obsessing over wether or not i should get a new bag! Also, the ball hook swivel is unforgiving, so again it is probably my skill level. I will probably just get my hands toughened up by hitting those laces anyway. One day i will get another bag to try, it seems like most people have at least a few different ones. And...I cant blame the bag ALL the time..." If everyone were satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes "
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When i got my promex i used it on a U-bolt for a couple months.....hitting it constantly. I think it sorta widened it out because it was only being punished on 2 sides. Now that i use it on my ball hook it kinda tends to end up in the position as if it was on a u-bolt (laces on the side). So maybe its the bag shape....i should put a few thousand hits on it using the chainlink because it will rotate the bag 90 degrees different than the ubolt. then it may even my bag out. who knows? LOL
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That makes sense. My daughter wants a u-bolt swivel because she says the ball-hook is too hard. I may get another bag and swivel. I am building another platform, so i can let her work on the pro-mex and maybe it will change shape. Thanks for the input. Oh, thanks for sending the icy hand of winter our way, I just about froze hitting the bag in my garage today. I gotta get a heater!" If everyone were satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes "
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I was just wondering if every bag has a slightly different sweet spot. It seems like when i really focus i can feel where it is on mine. of course this is when it stays facing the direction i statred in. One miss hit and it starts to spin slightly clockwise to where the laces start facing me instead of being on the right. A couple times i intentionally hit more towards the bottom right of the bag to try to turn the laces away from me. It was cool to see it start to rotate the other way, but then i totally lost control of the bag. I am just going to slow down with the goal of control, i just really want to learn some good looking combos!" If everyone were satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes "
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Originally posted by jumpcannon View Postok this is technical but i think depending on the swivel and weight of the bag this will happen. sometimes the swivel controls the bag instead of the bag controlling the swivel. if your using a chain link then the laces will always be front or back. a u bolt will make laces on the side. on a ball hook my promex will always find its way with the lace to the side. my everlast pro 6x4 will never turn on me with a ballhook. this being said......my swivel leads my promex while my everlast bag leads the swivel. i dont have any other bags to really compare
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Originally posted by jojojunfan View PostI was just wondering if every bag has a slightly different sweet spot. It seems like when i really focus i can feel where it is on mine. of course this is when it stays facing the direction i statred in. One miss hit and it starts to spin slightly clockwise to where the laces start facing me instead of being on the right. A couple times i intentionally hit more towards the bottom right of the bag to try to turn the laces away from me. It was cool to see it start to rotate the other way, but then i totally lost control of the bag. I am just going to slow down with the goal of control, i just really want to learn some good looking combos!
I find that If I hit normally I'll notice my fists will almost always contact in the same place (horizontal line) on the bag, and that varies just a bit from bag to bag. It is not a concious effort, but I tend to hit a bit lower on bananna bags. (longer, thinner).Speed Bag
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Originally posted by jojojunfan View PostI was just wondering if every bag has a slightly different sweet spot.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Title store. I kept going back because i was getting frustrated with my bag, so i kept switching them out. I went ahead and got a Promex medium, actually I got 2, so i could see how 2 of the exact same bag reacted. This was after 30 minutes of switching bags on the platforms set up at the store. I even brought my bag and put it on different platforms. Well, as it turns out my original bag was fine, wich you guys with more experience probably knew already! So I just stopped hitting for a couple days and worked on some other things, when i went back, everything changed. I was fixated on the possibility that since my bag was not " perfectly" shaped, I was somehow not going to learn. Once i realized, and I mean really realized, " not just thinking ...yeah I know.." that no bag could be perfect, I was fine. Tim, thanks for the subconcious advice also. I was trying to explain it to my daughter, I told her that I was not really trying to "hit" the bag, I was just making sure that my hand was in the right place for the bag to hit it. At a certain point it is going to move too quickly for a concious effort, you have to trust the timing and just have your hand there. Plus you need to just have fun and it will happen. Thanks for letting me ramble everybody, keep baggin!!! I will!!" If everyone were satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes "
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