newbie what bag to get/ punching basics

Boxing Ask the Trainer
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Hi everyone! (hope this is the correct forum to post in, i apologize if its not) I know very little about boxing and would like to get into the sport. I have been looking around different forums, and articles online, and it looks like it requires a lot of skill which that i am excited to learn. if you guys have any recommendations on some good books that will teach the skills (like correct body formation) and all the basics that would be much appreciated.

now for the questions. I would like to buy a punching bag to get started with unless there is something else you guys would recommend. from the searching i did i found it looks like some bags like 100lb ones can shatter your wrists if you don’t know how to punch it correctly. So my question is what is a good bag to get started with and what is the correct way to punch it?

thanks for any info, please tell me anything you think would be important to know/do like i said i no basicly nothing about boxing am excited to learn! thank you

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books arent nearly as helpful as watching the pros and seeing how it is done in motion.

there are several types of punching bags. do you mean a heavy bag?

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yes, sorry i meant what weight bag is good to start out with?

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i would say go for a water based one if you can afford if you do the weight reall wont matter on that

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Hey for a book i would strongly recomend that you get the ultimate boxer its got every thing you wanna know and more its great. and for a bag a 70-80lb one should do. whats your hight and weight that will help determain also

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thanks for the book advise, sounds like somthing i was looking for to read killing time at work. i’m 6’1 and like 155 (yea i’m a skinny ass)

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so if i were to get a 70lb bad, would you advise me to wear gloves? if i dont use gloves is that how people shatter their wrists? is there a correct way to punch a bad? thanks for putting up with all my newb questions.

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Gloves and wrist wraps are advised to be worn for your own protection

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If you dont use gloves you can get scard up hands. And without out tape you’ll likely jam your wrists which is no fun

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Ringside.com have a very good selection of bags to look from and a very good information page about the difference between bags and their uses. Also where you are now (saddoboxing) have a good page for beginners which has all the basic punches and how to do them.. Check it out. I think there is also some other links that outline the punching basics on here as well if you have a look around..

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To answer very quickly, people shatter their wrists by punching incorrectly. Make sure you’re wrists are straight, so all the energy from the impact of the bag pass right through them into your forearms. If you hit the bag with limp or bent wrists, all the impact goes directly to the wrists and wreaks havoc on all those tiny little bones in there.

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thanks thats the answer i was looking for. i must be blind because i am looking all over the webpage and cannot find the page for beginners?

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up nevermind found the learn to bobx tab on the front page

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also have a look on ringside.com I can’t remember where I found it on there, but they have a manual on one of their pages for download.. It’s a .pdf & is quite large file size, but is good to print out for a quick reference when picking up the basics. If you can’t find it, let me know & i’ll stop being so lazy and provide a link for it.

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Definetly, in my early days i use to wear just gloves and no wraps, when i bought the wraps after like 3 years of not using them, i saw a major difference, well my wrists wernt constantly hurting and it basically stopped most of the pain.

not using gloves at all and going barefist is just crazy

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now what are wraps exactly? is it some sort of special tape or somthing? i one of the liinks that was mentioned before there were some for $24 and some for $124  what makes some more expensive then others. what is your opinions on stuff from Big5?

BTW cillenmolin , i could not find any thing you can d/l on that site ???

thanks for all the help guys! good information

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^^^ I love the feeling of cold hard leather on my hot bare knuckles after working out hard with wraps and gloves on.. Of course I don’t hit the bag hard at all. Mainly just run through the combo’s slowly, only just connecting with the bag with a slight impact. It’s very very relaxing after some hard heavy bag work.

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Okay I found where the download is on www.ringside.com. It’s quiet easy actually although it did take me a while to find the first time. You simply click on the “features” link up the top on the first page of their site.
http://www.ringside.com/features.htm
Their is also another couple of good articles there & a good one on wrapping hands, but what you want is the John Brown boxing manual at which is right at the bottom. For some reason it’s like 21mb. If you have a slow modem & don’t want to spend all that time downloading this I can print my copy and rescan it as i’m sure I could get it down to under 1mb.

Again, just let me & i’ll do this for you, although you maybe have to wait a day or 2 for me & only a half hour or so for the download.

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I used to wear hand bandages all the time, but I don’t need them now because my hands have toughened up, if you don’t need to use them then there’s no point but it’s worth seeing what benefits your hands the most :wink: