Pole Bag Filling

[benAZ]

To get my heavy bag to weigh more I took a piece of six inch diameter pipe, filled it with sand, then capped it off. Then I put that in the center of the bag, and surrounded it with the rags. This gave me the weight I wanted, but I didn't need so many rags. It also doesn't move around like the sand bags in the cheap bags do. I don't know if this would work for the pole bags though.

 

[crossdx]

Pole bags have a space in the center for the pole mount, so that probably wouldn't work so well.

 

[crossdx]

edit, double

 

[Torrid]

I will expand on what I previously said. I used a Fairtex pole bag for roughly a year.

Pro:
-It's not going anywhere. If you want to throw 20 double kicks in a row, you can. You could always use ties on a normal bag for the same effect.

Con:
-It's got a pole inside. All bags get lumpy and need to have filling adjustments from time to time. They all develop "hard spots" without careful use. In the case of this bag, it can be incredibly dangerous to strike areas that lack sufficient fabric stuffing.
-It's not going anywhere. It's pretty hard to circle or work angles on a bag that is probably only being used for the corner of a frame for heavy bags. This is not an issue if you're using this bag on a pole that is not attached to anything and you can freely move about.
-It's freaking huge. You're not clinching it.
-It comes unfilled. $250 and you still have to spend an afternoon stuffing it. You could always hire some midgets to get inside and have it perfectly stuffed.
-It's freaking huge. Your foot is hitting the ass end every time. Even more so than hitting other large bags, like a 4' 130-50lb'er.

Definitely wouldn't be my first choice. The only reason I'd buy one is if I couldn't fix a hanging bag, but it would oddly be perfectly fine for me to have the equivalent of six wavemasters on my floor.

Thanks for the review man, but yeah - I can't mount a heavy bag on a wall. In the garage at my apts I attached an Everlast support to the joist and studs and it still shakes the whole wall and pisses off the people above me. The gym I fight with is a good 30 minutes away, so when I wake up early and have to go to class/work/whatever it's nice to be able to wake up and go do my own stuff.

The pole bag will let me put it in my garage with treadmill, double end, row machine, in the center/side. I don't plan on working on circling, just speed kicks, elbows, and all around conditioning.

 

[Debt Collector]

So if I poured cement inside an old car tire and fixed a pole in the middle. Would a fairtex pole bag just pop on top and I could use it as a homemade wavemaster?