Hey
@Zebra Cheeks
In my opinion, I guess there are a few factors I can think of that would depend to make best call for your boxing bag.
Is it an indoor or backyard gym? This might help guiding you into which material you'd need the bag to be. If you are planning to put up some proper work out to this bag, I'd suggest you spend a bit more and get one made of genuine leather. However, this might be driven if you will have this inside or outside.
I'm not sure if stand-alone bags have the closure available to fill it up (or remove) to add more weight to it based on your desired bouncing. Traditional boxing bags however, you can customize it to make it as hard as you may like it to be. Me personally, have added a few kg of sand into my bag, to have it in my desired comfort when punching.
I also love aqua bags, but I'm not sure these would help for kicking. I believe mostly they are made for punching in a water drop design.
My house is not such a big place, where my gym lives together with TV room and my wife's workplace. Based on that, I also had to look somehow the gym to not look bad/ ugly - what I consider as "decoration"
-, so also tried to keep the design of it a bit aesthetic.
For the boxing bag I placed inside my house for my small home gym, there were some things I should've chosen better...
1- Getting a larger bag: Mine is actually 95 cm large, this is a bit limited for body and head punches. Might be even more limited for kicks.
2- Hanged vs standalone: Hanged bag may require a bit more effort in setting it up, but might save you some space and look better. Once you have it set up, is just about plugging in and off and you can clear that space. My opinion is standalone bags does tend to use a lot more of space and might not be so simple to store them.
3- Having it in synthetic leather: Given the price and spending capacity I had at the time I acquired this, I didn't paid much attention to it being synthetic leather. After several months of use and "decoration", quality, feeling and look of genuine leather is better.
My costs of implementation were the following:
- Iron bar in the ceiling with installation USD $140
- Boxing bag $70
- Double ended bag with bungee ropes and rope $70
- Extension chains and adapters $20
I'll drop here some pictures I've taken yesterday of my humble home boxing gym, with some measures in case it helps as a reference.
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Edgar