lazy power drills on a soft bag 🥊

Lazy power work on a soft bag 🥊 The task is to try not to tense your arms at all, engaging them only at the moment the fist contacts the striking surface, imagining that your arms are Indiana Jones's whips 💫 But making sure the strikes still have power, not just slaps. My favorite kind of bag work.

Most often, I work on the bag without gloves — I love feeling the striking surface directly, sensing how the fist cleanly sinks into the bag... The sensations are genuinely very pleasant. In my experience, a glove somewhat cools you down, and the extra protection and support make you think a bit better of yourself than you really are, and, in my view, over time it teaches you to deliver strikes slightly incorrectly.

I've never had much love for gloves, especially boxing gloves, just as I never liked headgear. The need to put on headgear for sparring always saddens me a bit — your head becomes less mobile in it (due to the added bulk and extra weight), and your field of vision narrows too. More downsides than advantages... But that's just my personal take again.

I usually don't wrap my hands either, but in this particular gym, working without wraps wasn't allowed. I had to go to the store and buy wraps. )) Wrapping is a tedious and time-consuming process, it gets old fast, especially if you have to do it every day before every workout, plus you have to wash them often. Yes, there are quick wraps with Velcro — I personally have some (they're in St. Petersburg now, along with all my other gear) — but I couldn't find any in Mexico and ended up buying this nonsense. Completely useless and unnecessary.

Muhammad Ali, by the way, as far as I know, never worked on heavy bags at all, preferring speed bags on swivels, double-end bags, and other types of speed work. His forte was speed, and for your punch to be a knockout, it doesn't have to weigh a ton — 40 kg is plenty for a knockout — that's what my coach Gensanych always said, a great guy. The main thing is that your punch is accurate and, even more importantly, unexpected. Because the most dangerous punch is the one you didn't see.

So there's no point in becoming a tank if, by constitution, you're an archer. But natural tanks probably need to work in their own way and try to develop their natural advantages... In this case, I'm just sharing observations and basing them on the specifics of my own body.

Arthur O'Harra.