Here are some clips from some of our sparring sessions in November 2011.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Kid's Class Heavybag Training
Heavybag training can serve an integral part of training. If you cannot spar nor have a coach that can hold mitts for you then the heavy bag is the next best thing. The heavy bag can help improve and develop punching power, balance, and also simulate an opponent.
The heavy bag gives you a feeling of what it feels like to hit an opponent and to punch correctly. If you hit the bag wrong it you’ll know what it feels like to hit incorrectly. It helps to create punching endurance and to condition the muscles and bones in your hands, wrists, and arms. It also can help footwork if you engage the bag as an opponent. When it swings you can block, push, shuffle, move and step.
If you want to hit harder the heavy bag will definitely help--if you use proper technique. The fact that the heavy bag does not punch back can be a positive and a negative because it allows you to focus on hitting it as hard as you want.
It can be a negative because it can cause you to be a little sloppy with your defense and technique because punches aren’t coming back like when using focus mitts with a coach. The danger is if you only hit the bag to see how hard you can hit it, hit the bag without direction or practice sloppily. Those habits that can develop in the way you compete.
You can see some of that above in the first video. The youngster is getting lazy with his hands as they are dropping to his sides. In the next video below (Heavy Bag pt. 2) the coach gives him more instruction and it is a little more of a technical workout. There are still flaws of course because he is only a pup in the sport but there is a difference that is visible.
The heavy bag gives you a feeling of what it feels like to hit an opponent and to punch correctly. If you hit the bag wrong it you’ll know what it feels like to hit incorrectly. It helps to create punching endurance and to condition the muscles and bones in your hands, wrists, and arms. It also can help footwork if you engage the bag as an opponent. When it swings you can block, push, shuffle, move and step.
If you want to hit harder the heavy bag will definitely help--if you use proper technique. The fact that the heavy bag does not punch back can be a positive and a negative because it allows you to focus on hitting it as hard as you want.
It can be a negative because it can cause you to be a little sloppy with your defense and technique because punches aren’t coming back like when using focus mitts with a coach. The danger is if you only hit the bag to see how hard you can hit it, hit the bag without direction or practice sloppily. Those habits that can develop in the way you compete.
You can see some of that above in the first video. The youngster is getting lazy with his hands as they are dropping to his sides. In the next video below (Heavy Bag pt. 2) the coach gives him more instruction and it is a little more of a technical workout. There are still flaws of course because he is only a pup in the sport but there is a difference that is visible.
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