About this product
This is an unfilled standing punching bag. It arrives as a shell and you fill it yourself.
That is a genuine advantage rather than a cost-saving. Filling is not something to get from a factory – it is personal, it depends on how hard you hit and what you want the bag to feel like, and a filled bag is enormously expensive to ship. Filling it locally with old clothes costs nothing.
How you fill it decides whether the bag is good or useless, and most people get this wrong. Sand alone is the classic error: it looks like the obvious answer, and it settles into a dense, unyielding mass that is like punching a wall. It will hurt your wrists, it makes the bag swing badly, and it cannot be undone without emptying the whole thing.
The right method is shredded cloth – old T-shirts, sheets, offcuts – packed in tightly, layer by layer, pressing each layer down hard before adding the next. Loose filling settles and leaves a hollow top and a rock-hard bottom. If you want more weight, put a sealed bag of sand at the very bottom only, surrounded by cloth, so the striking surface stays soft.
Pack it tighter than feels necessary. A bag that is soft on day one will be half-empty at the top within a month.
Wear wraps and bag gloves. A heavy bag is unforgiving of a badly aligned wrist, and bag work is where most boxing hand injuries happen.
Buying a Standing Punching Bag in Tanzania
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the standing punching bag at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Browse more Boxing & Martial Arts in Dar es Salaam, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on boxing, see this overview on Wikipedia.
Standing Punching Bag - Unfilled, Fill to Your Own Weight