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Manufacturer: Productive Fitness Products Inc.

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780973126235
ISBN: 097312623X
Label: Productive Fitness Products Inc.
Manufacturer: Productive Fitness Products Inc.
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Publisher: Productive Fitness Products Inc.
Studio: Productive Fitness Products Inc.

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This indispensable handbook teaches you everything you could ever want to know about speed bags including:

- How to set up a speed bag
- How to wrap your hands
- How to hit the bag (different types of punches)
- Safety considerations
- Fighter’s stance
- Basic and advanced punches
- Stretching
- A series of combination hits

If you want to get the most out of your speed bag then this handbook is a must.

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Summary: Quick but thorough guide
Comment: Just about anyone who thinks about a speed bag wants to be able to make the thing rattle like a machine gun. And just about anyone who actually tries to hit a speed bag will find it fiendishly difficult, on a par with trying to nail gelatin to the wall. Dale Walters has written a short but detailed guide to making the speed bag something to enjoy rather than a source of endless frustration. He takes the reader through a methodical process, starting with basic side strikes, progressing into jabs and crosses, and finally into combination punches. Ample photographs make the instructions easy to follow. Perhaps in recognition of the impatience many people feel, the book emphasizes that progress does not come overnight and that it is necessary to take things one step at a time without jumping ahead.
Although the book is short, and small enough to fit easily into your gym bag, it seems to cover just about everything speed bag users need to know. Readers who want to buy their own bags rather than use ones at gyms will benefit from a thorough discussion on choosing and installing a speed bag and the mounting apparatus. Several pages on stretching, written by co-author Andre Potvin, are useful for anyone engaging in exercise even though they're not specifically relevant to speed bag use.

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