[Centaur]

Well, someone had a thread in the Conditioning forum on making your own heavy bag, so I'm just going to post here what I did there.

The idea is just a basic, I'm pretty sure it'll need some tweaking so PLEASE if you have any ideas to make this work, let me know. This could turn out to be a good cheap way for someone to make they're own bag.

It was inspired by Ross E. Swiss Water Ball. Basically get a swiss ball, fill it 70% (or something like that) with water, the rest air, and get some strong mesh (net) and hang it up. Shouldn't cost more that $20 and would simulate a tear drop bag. The mesh shouldn't interfere with the gloves if its space/thin enough.

Of course I'm probably missing a key step and whoever tries this as is will be destined to have it burst on them, but I'm sure with a little tweaking it could be done.

[alterd]

Getting a mesh sack durable enough to take a beating seems like a real specialty item. Iam not even sure where I would begin to look.

Perhaps cut a heavy duty canvas tarp into a circle large enough to encase the ball. Then ring the perimeter of the circular tarp with grommets (available at a hardware store) and then lace the whole thing up with some strong nylon rope?

[Centaur]

Ya, that might do the trick. Another guy (from the other thread) mentioned something about using corn kernels instead of water.

I was given an old swiss ball, the annoying kind with the spikes on it, so maybe I'll sacrifice it to the experiment gods this weekend.