Floor to ceiling ball

[Mick Hucknall]

Having stopped boxing training in May after 10 months due to exams and now having a full tiem job working 12-9 I have no time to box at my local, so I have been trainign from home in the meantime. As of now I have a speedball in my room and heavy bag in my attic and I was wondering about buying a floor to ceiling ball, I've heard a lot of good things about them but wonder if it is pointless me getting one if i already have a speedball. Any opinions feel free to post them, and hopefully in the next few moths I will be able to get my hours changed so I will be able to attand my gym

[Robb235]

Pretty sure you're talking about a double ended bag.

I'd say get it. Neither the heavy bag or speed bag has the ability to hit you back. The DE bag on the other hand has the ability to score some hits forcing you to either slip or block as it comes hurdling back towards you. I love DE bag training and I have one at my house, as well as a heavy bag.

[Mick Hucknall]

Is it easy to set up? I mean my speedwall bracket has kinda tore my wall up a bit, So i'm gonna have to move it to my outside extension and I'm looking to put the DE bag in my room preferably

[BrooklynBomber]

Is it easy to set up? I mean my speedwall bracket has kinda tore my wall up a bit, So i'm gonna have to move it to my outside extension and I'm looking to put the DE bag in my room preferably

to be honest, punching the double ended bag was my favourite exercise. it trains your accuracy, timing as well as reflexes.

[Trick]

I agree, the double bag is key. Combined with the heavy bag, the double bag can give a boxer much of the equipment training he needs. Does anyone know how hard it is to set one up in your house?

[Robb235]

I just set one up in my basement the other day. How easy or hard to set up depends on how comfortable you are with power tools. My DE bag came with the brackets for the ceiling and floor and it was just a matter of mounting them. I secured the top part by drilling the bracket into a wooden beam that ran across my ceiling. For the bottom part I used concrete anchors that I bought from ACE Hardware. For those you drill two holes through the concrete (make sure you have the same size bit as is the concrete anchors) and that's how I mounted the bottom brackets.