Reddit reviews Century BOB XL with Base Unit
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Freestanding heavy bag with life-like upper torsoCreates more striking surface for head or body shot trainingHigh-strength plastisol body filled with urethane foamPolyethylene base holds up to 270 pounds of water or sandRolls easily for transport; multiple height settings
I haven't been downvoting you for the most part. Just your initial comment. Since then I've upvoted you on everything just because you're willing to discuss this and didn't turtle the way most people do.
I appreciate the sentiment in regards to my Sensei. It was quite the blow the community since he was a well known figure and role model.
I always enjoy conversations on Reddit. My main concern is that I truly believe that unless you're doing some hardcore sparring to complement your eye gouges and groin kicks, I'm legitimately concerned for your safety, because you are simply not as prepared as you think you are.
Referring to eye gouges from grappling, this gets even more nasty. If you don't grapple consistently, you're going to have a rough time. I'd recommend you have some randori with a BJJ player or a Judoka if the opportunity ever arises. An essential aspect of grappling for them is grip fighting, so you won't likely have a "free hand" so to speak to gouge with. It's incredibly hard to grapple effectively against someone who knows what they are doing.
You're right that against an untrained opponent, absolutely a great deal of techniques will work, including techniques that wouldn't work in the ring, but ask yourself this: Do you want to train to fight the bare minimum? Or would you rather be over prepared for the common dweeb who gets drunk and picks a fight in case you ever run into one of the hardened criminals who has picked up how to fight from years of fighting from when he was very young and is a legitimately good brawler? It's totally fine to say "well most untrained assailants won't be able to guard effectively against a kick, but as you say yourself:
>if I ever find myself fighting a trained opponent in a no-rules, life or death situation, and he is effectively blocking groin strikes, then I am in serious trouble and I need to reevaluate the life decisions that got me there.
I'd prefer to train to fight the competent dude, so that if I find myself in that same no-rules situation, I don't need to reconsider my life decisions. A pretty common saying is "you need to understand the rules before you can break them". And the same applies for fighting. A punch or a kick is following the rules, and both are very effective, but you need to become very competent with them before you focus in on illegal techniques because if and when illegal techniques fail, you need a foundation to fall back on that will serve you well.
In regards to one step sparring and katas. They are useful, but only so far as you practice them in sparring. My Sensei would routinely choose a kata that we would study, learn the bunkai (application) of the kata, and then start practicing that kata in full contact sparring. For nasty moves, we would break them down into their parts and practice them. Using an eye gouge for example. The actual motion of an eye gouge is exactly the same as a punch. Only difference is what your fingers are doing at the end of your arm. So we would practice punching the snot out of each other in sparring so we knew that regardless of what our hand is doing, we can still reach the face. Then on a lifelike training dummy such as bob we could practice the actual action of gouging the eye.
There are some issues in how to practice these sorts of techniques. In more violent times, these techniques were used by soldiers, who might have actually gotten opportunities to poke eyes out of there sockets. Nowadays, that isn't so practical, but we train for accuracy and hard resistance a lot of the time. I actually use eye gouging techniques on a bob which might not let me work on the finer points of eyes scooping (i guess that's what it would be called) but as we've seen in numerous mma fights, you don't have to poke an eye hard to hurt a guy and it's easy enough that you can do it by accident. I have yet to break my fingers on any work on eye striking but I also, and I'm thankful for this, actually, don't really know how effective it would be in an actual fight since I've never done in an actual fight. I did break my finger doing a single leg takedown before. And i savagely sprained my wrist on a savage right cross that I threw from too far away. The possibility of injury due to a poorly done strike or sub is present in most martial techniques and should not be too big of a guideline in choosing a techniques value.
o shit! That armless rubber guy put up a better defense than this guy.
Have you tried a Bob XL? It's probably the only free-standing bag worth having.
You can't lean into it the same way you can with a regular heavy bag, but you can do things with it that you can't with a heavy bag. Plus it's quieter and you don't need a stand.
Yeah I'm ready..ready to be mad as hell if the FDA wins. Might have to buy one of these with a rotating collection of face shot pictures of the senators who pass this shit.
It's the cat equivalent of this! http://www.amazon.com/Century-BOB-XL-Base-Unit/dp/B003QOHSLQ