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PhilM1
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Location: San Diego, CA
Styles: shorin ryu, BJJ, kickboxing
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject: Sand bag vs. Water bag |
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who uses sand bags vs. the water based bags? pros/cons?
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wcnavstar
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Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Location: Southern California
Styles: Shorin Ryu/ Wing Chun
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I think for my self I like water bags for the feeling, and Sand bags more for the roughness and to build my wrist strength up. However when it comes to conditioning the knuckles I enjoy a traditional Makiwara board.
All in all I think each one offers somthing different that can be used to enhance your techniques. |
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monkeygirl
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Location: Middle-of-Nowhere, Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 7:22 am Post subject: |
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If you're talking about the actual striking surface of the bag being filled with water, that will absorb your hits much better than sand. Hitting sand would be like... punching a beach 
If you're talking about the plastic base of the bag (like a Century Wavemaster) I'd highly suggest filling them with sand. It may be a little more expensive, and it won't be as easy to remove so that the bags can be moved to a different building. However, those bags have a tendency to leak everywhere...it's much, much easier to sweep up a few grains of sand than to mop up some water. 
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PunchPressQueen75
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I agree with Monkeygirl. For the Wavemasters, sand it better. I have B.O.B. that has a similar base to the wavemasters and we filled it with sand. I don't want leakage from water.
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on the post.
