The Fighter's Guide to Hard-core Heavy Bag Training

by Wim Demeere, Loren W. Christensen

In one session on the heavy bag, you can develop all the attributes you need as a martial artist or power, form, speed, timing, endurance, and explosiveness. What other training tool can make that claim? Throughout The Fighter's Guide to Hard-Core Heavy Bag Training, Wim Demeere and Loren Christensen show you how to master the critical skills needed to survive a fight. From these acclaimed martial artists, you will get solid information on how to choose the right bag for your needs, how best to hang it, and how to care for it so it lasts for years. You will also learn the types of impacts and how to make the best use of them for specific situations; innovative drills to maximize your fitness level and fighting ability; creative ways to grapple a heavy bag, including chokes, takedowns, and armbars; and how to avoid the most common mistakes in heavy bag training. Whatever your fighting art or goal, you can benefit from the hard-core drills in this book.

Genres: Martial Arts

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

I started training in the martial arts as a young teenager and never stopped. I was lucky enough to turn it onto a profession and have been teaching full-time with private clients and at seminars for almost 20 years now.

I co-wrote my first book in 2003 and have published several since then, as well as producing numerous instructional videos. For the last five years, I've regularly published articles on my blog at http://www.wimsblog.com and enjoy it immensely. It's extra writing practice...