Professional bags cost a lot of money. Any man with basic skills in working with hand tools can do present for yourself or your son in the form of an excellent, durable boxing bag.
Every home has a lot of old unnecessary things, such as rugs and threadbare clothes. Any wife will be glad if her husband helps dispose of these things. This is a double benefit from a quality item made with your own hands.
Will need
To make a boxing bag you will need:
- dense, durable old synthetic rugs (1.2 m x 2.5 m) – 2 pcs.;
- a piece of round wooden log with a diameter of 140-160 mm, a height of 60-70 mm - 1 pc.;
- any old summer clothes – 10-12 kg;
- nails 70 mm – 8-10 pcs.;
- steel cable in polypropylene insulation, diameter 1.0-1.5 mm - 1 m;
- packing adhesive tape, scotch tape – 2 rolls;
- black durable adhesive tape, 50 mm wide – 1 skein;
- small galvanized steel chain – 1.8 m;
- ring screw or hook screw for Tech-Krep chains, 6.0X60 – 3 pcs.;
- carbines – 4 pcs.;
- large carabiner clasp – 1 pc.;
- universal glue.
Making a punching bag
At the first stage, you need to prepare raw materials and materials. For a piece of log, you can use any wood, but preferably one that is not sharp. Birch is perfect for our conditions.
After sawing off a piece of log, we spread old rugs on a flat surface, face up. We try to place them one above the other.
We begin to roll the rugs into a “cigar”.
We immediately insert our wooden part from one end.
It needs to be recessed a little inside the future training bag. We nail both rugs to the forming plug.
Trying to avoid voids and pockets, as tightly as possible, we roll the mats and the embedded part into a single cylinder. After each turn, we attach the mats to a nail.
Additionally, we fix the wrapping of rugs to the side of our wooden cork using several nails. We hammer in at least 6 nails, evenly distributing them along the circumference of the bag. Remove excess threads. We received a cylindrical container sealed at one end. Now you can stuff it with old clothes.
We stuff clothes into the bag. We use a tamper (baseball bat, shovel handle) to fill the bag tightly.
Stuffing must be done carefully and gradually. If you use too much force, the impact of the rammer may cause the wooden plug to fly out.
We sew up the open end of the bag with a cable (we make holes in the rugs with an awl and pull the cable through). We tighten the end into knots.
Wrap the bag with packing tape. We wrap the ends of the bag with pieces of tape, and wrap the main surface with an overlap. We cut access to the wooden plug.
We screw 3 hook screws into the wooden plug using glue at an angle of 120 degrees, at a distance of 2-3 cm from the edge of the plug.
We finish wrapping the punching bag with strong black tape 50 mm wide.
We cover the ends with pieces of tape, and cover the main generatrix by rotating the bag (in a horizontal position) and laying the tape overlapping. We cut holes to access the hooks.
We divide the chain into three parts of 60 cm each. Using carabiners, we attach the ends of the chains to the hooks.
We connect the upper parts of the chains to a common carbine. A large carabiner fastener is attached to it, with the help of which our boxing bag is suspended on any crossbar or hook.
A homemade punching bag is ready to take a beating.
