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I purchased the above 6ft 150lb Muay Thai Bag from Outslayer Professional Fight Gear a couple months ago in preparation for a pending house purchase, since I'll finally have a garage to hang a bag in. I knew what I wanted out of a bag, and so I did some research on brands until I came across Outslayer. The bag looked like what I wanted, it was affordable, and I liked the 10 year warranty that came with it, so I forked over the money for it even though there aren't a whole lot of reviews online. I also got a great deal on it because Outslayer was doing some sort of clearance sale and I got the bag for about 60% of the normal purchase price. They have a wide array of color combinations to choose from, so you aren't limited to the typical solid black or white choices.
The bag arrived on my doorstep about 4 days after I ordered it, and was packaged inside a zip-top vinyl shell that you could very well use to make another heavy bag, if you wanted. If you order one of these bags, just be prepared to get your hands covered in glue, because the shipping label is put over the zipper and the adhesive is very gooey and sticks to everything. I do plan on scrubbing off the glue from the vinyl shell and making a lighter 6ft bag out of it specifically for ground-and-pound practice, at some point.
Since then, I have had the bag hanging in the dojo I train at, and I use it every time I am there. A few people I train with also use it, including my instructor, so it has been given a pretty good working over. The bag itself seems to be very durable and well constructed, with a thick shell and lots of reinforcement stitching, but the print on it fades and rubs off very quickly. This is a completely aesthetic issue and doesn't bother me in the slightest, but if you want your bags to look pretty then it might be an issue for you.
The strap-and-ring rig they use is nice because it makes the bag much quieter to use and reduces bouncing, but you do need to have a swivel to prevent it from binding up. That is actually one of the requirements mentioned in the warranty--if your straps get damaged from not hanging the bag on a swivel, they won't replace those. That and the obligatory "if you do something to it that it wasn't intended for, then we won't fix it" part were the only exceptions to the warranty--anything you could do to it through normal use is completely covered.
A major selling point for me, and the people I train with, is that this bag has no sandbags in it--it is 150lbs of cloth-fill. That means you never slam your shin or foot into a solid lump of almost-concrete when you're working the bag. Despite that, the bag is still quite firm, and provides good resistance to strikes. Being able to really slam power kicks into it without worrying about hard spots, but without having an overly-soft bag, is great. Another nice thing is that the bag is rated to 300lbs, so you can actually take out some of the cloth-fill and add sandbags to make it heavier if you wanted to.
From a usage standpoint, the bag has held up to everything we have thrown at it--hand strikes of various types (we are karateka, after all), elbows, knees, and kicks to all levels, including some ground-and-pound practice. I don't see it ever giving out unless you leave it outside to be exposed to the elements. It can get a little lumpy if you constantly hit one spot, but it can be evened out by striking other areas. Again, though, that's really just an aesthetic issue, since you don't have sandbags to worry about hitting when the fill shifts.
Overall, I give the Outslayer 6ft 150lb Muay Thai Bag a 4.5 out of 5, but only because the print comes off so easily and the bag requires a swivel but doesn't come with one. Minor issues only take away minor points, and if they made the print more permanent and shipped it with a swivel it would be a 5 out of 5 for me. I love the bag, and would definitely recommend it. In fact, I already have--a guy I used to train with actually bought one for himself after trying mine.
If anybody has any questions about the bag, just ask and I'll see what I can do to answer them.
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