It serves its purpose, speed beats power and timing beats speed, using the speed bag at the end of your workout forces your timing and hand/eye to stay on point while you are tired, and simultaneously working your shoulder endurance as you are FORCED to keep your hands high which in turn helps to keep your hands up in a fight when your tired. It may not seem like much but it is the 1% ers that can make or break in this sport.
The speed bag is to help you to keep your hands up and to also help strengthen your shoulders and assist with coordination.
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Speed bag is meant for hand eye coordination. I think it is an important tool to training. It’s gets the shoulder blades/sockets lose and warm. And coordination like I said before. Is it essential to a successful camp? No, but I feel it contributes
It does help with hand-eye, true, but less so than does the double-end...and the misperception of its purpose among lay folk is that it builds up hand speed; it doesn't. It shows off the speed you already have - which is why coaches and serious boxing heads consider it more a tool for strutting peacockery than anything useful (that you can't already get from other, better, more versatile pieces of equipment) Unlike the heavy and d-e, also, it doesn't replicate any real fight condition movements. Who throws a flurry like that, rolling fist over fist? †addendum: strutting peacockery does have its place; a lot of coaches, especially old school variety, like the idea of intimidating your gym mates to give you more confidence in sparring. But that is a more indirect and less outright practical benefit.
I asked my trainer years ago(Al Certo) what the purpose of the speed bag was and he said it helps to keep your hands up. I can see that because when you haven’t done it in a while you’ll feel it in your shoulders.
Yeah that's a legit application of it. Ideally you'd be getting that repetition of holding your hands up from regular sparring, but there are circumstances where a coach might want to hold off on that for you (nobody available that's approximately your level to match you with; after concussions etc) in which case the baflg would be a suitable substitute to keep it in your muscle memory.
As others have said the speed bag is meant for developing shoulder endurance and hand/eye coordination.
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