MMA Favorite

Mark R.:

I bought this for my 9yrs old son to use for karate and kickboxing. Works better then I thought it would. I hit it with all of my force and won’t move an inch. The pad is strong and absorbs kicks and punches well. The only complain I have is the hole to put in the sand in is a little small. It took an hour to fill; but once filled its great. You can adjust the height so if I use it to exercise it won’t be too small. This is a great punching bag. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Century Aerobic Wavemaster

Spaceapeman:

The bag took less than a week to arrive, in fact it shipped the day I ordered it. It was delivered yesterday and last night I filled it with water using a funnel and a one gallon pitcher. It took between 20 and 30 gallons to fill, I didn’t count. This took perhaps half an hour.

It is more akin to a speed bag than a heavy bag. The weight is in the base, not in the bag. I used it on a wood floor, and it slides a couple of inches with each hit or kick. Sounds like filling it with sand makes it heavier. I put some wide cinder blocks behind it against the wall and this worked to keep it in place (bags of tube sand would probably be even better). You need about a foot of space behind it as the bag flexes. If you have room for it to slide around you can guide its direction with your hits and kicks (if you opt to fill it with water). It is intended for contact at the end of your punch or kick, not to provide resistance like a heavy bag.

It only took about five minutes to work up a sweat. Currently I am in average condition for physically fit people. That is to say decent, non-competitive shape.

With a cup of coffee and some loud hard rock music I was able to trance out enough to not be bored for a good 20 minutes or so. Basically it provides a target, making it a step better than shadow boxing. My goals are fitness and to instill enough muscle memory so that should I reluctantly find myself in a brawl some technique might remain. Used in short 10-15 minute sessions this should provide some good aerobic activity several times a week. It is far less boring than an exercycle or treadmill.

If used in a corner with something behind it to keep it away from the wall and from moving it doesn’t require a lot of space. If you have a basement to use it in that would make it much less bothersome to others. It isn’t all that loud, but if you have downstair neighbors or housemates it would definitely get their attention. Others have attested to the durability of Wavemaster products and I see no reason not to believe it will last. Plan on using gloves with it, as the cordura type fabric will take the skin off your hands.

My qualifications are growing up with three brothers to box with and a heavy and speed bag. I’ve never had any formal boxing or martial arts training, though I make a keen study of televised mixed martial arts and kung fu movies. I’m also the veteran of several bar and street brawls from my younger less temperate days. During which any technique I might have acquired boxing with my brothers quickly disappeared in favor of what seems to be an instinctual hockey style, grabbing the shirt with one hand and jack hammering away with the other, garnering me a journeyman record of about 2-2-1. I still can’t say what I regret more, the fights I got into or the ones I didn’t.

Rating: 5 / 5
Century Aerobic Wavemaster

SeaBear70:

Ok, on the one hand, the product does what it says, does it rather well, and arrived quickly and I can’t complain about the price, product, or shipping. It’s big, it’s heavy, It’s stable, it didn’t break my hands, feet, knees, or elbows when I pounded the snot out of it It also survived a beating that would make a pro wrestler whimper like a scalded puppy.

That being said…

There are three available colors Red, Blue, and Black. Gentlemen, contrary to all possible logic, the black one is the ladies model. maybe my monitor is a little off, but what looked like an off white graphic is actually a very pink, very feminine decal that is never ever coming out of the fabric.

So, I had this thing delivered to my workplace, and I’m thinking, cool, Christmas is here, when I see the large round box in the office. As I’m opening it up to show the people I work with my new prize, what do I manage to see first? The Big pink decal.

I work with a combination of extremely liberal women and current and ex military men. I don’t know which was worse, the Women calling it cute and telling me that it’s so great that I can use it to work out my emotions, or the Men pointing out that I now have a giant pink and black phallic symbol in my home.

So I took it home, quickly to avoid any further proof that I had the gayest heavy bag on the market short of hiring a male prostitute for the express purpose of slapping him around, and set it up.

According to the instructions, you need a garden hose to fill the base with water. This is probably the best method, but as I did not have a garden hose handy, I made a funnel out of a 2 liter bottle. it fits perfectly, and if you do it right, you can get some good cardio going filling it from a popcorn bowl. Just fill it from a sink on the other side of the house and run to fill it.

This should take about 72 hours to complete successfully, but the bright side is that if you avoid snacking you will have already gotten more benefit out of the heavy bag than most people ever get out of a Nordic track.

After you pass out from low blood sugar and come round, remember to put the cap back on the fill spout this is important because odds are you didn’t fill it properly the first time and are going to knock it over.

So, after you put out the fire from the space heater, then fill the base up completely, and remember to put the cap back on the fill hole, no more than another 72 hours later, you should be ready to punch this thing.

Now, despite appearances, it is not going to lisp, “Stop It!” at you when you hit it. In fact if you are not used to freestanding heavy bags, odds are you are either going to hurt yourself or knock it over. If you knock it over, step back further, because you are getting too much penetration from your swings. (as a side note, I can’t believe I’m talking about a giant pink and black phallus and then mentioned penetration from swings)

If you hurt yourself, get a new popcorn bowl and a netflix subscription, trust me there is nowhere to go but down from there.

Rating: 4 / 5
Century Aerobic Wavemaster