New BOB Dummy

[bushido_man96]

True, but you can't always hit your live partner in the face...

[Tiger1962]

....unless he wants you to.

[bushido_man96]

Right.....I suppose that is open to suggestion, isn't it?

[Tiger1962]

but of course

[joesteph]

. . . it's good for target practice when you don't have a live partner, but a live partner is always the best.

Uh, Tiger . . . Do you mean to say that you use a "live partner" for target practice?

[Tiger1962]

yeah, sort of - you know, when you're in class or right before class when you're warming up and you and a friend or partner take a few shots at each other.

Wha...? Doesn't everyone do this ??

[DWx]

yeah, sort of - you know, when you're in class or right before class when you're warming up and you and a friend or partner take a few shots at each other.

Wha...? Doesn't everyone do this ??

An angry hormonal sibling works much better. Mine actually means it when she takes a swing at me! I get loads of "real" practice.

[joesteph]

I bought a BOB dummy on the weekend . . .

Any of you guys/gals own/used one?

The original BOB has a harder "skin," and I like the "skin" of the new BOB better, but extended sessions may mean it's a good idea to use gloves, especially with the uneven area of its (his?) face. When I used leather bag gloves and speedbagged BOB's face, I couldn't tell if the red that appeared on its face came from the red gloves or the plastic skin being rubbed off. (It's taken awhile, but the red that eventually came off was from the gloves.) When I switched to simple cloth hand guards, there was no problem. Also, if you speedbag BOB's face as much and as hard as I've done, you might find yourself with the same skinned knuckles on both hands that I wound up with when I didn't use gloves.

You might feel that, with the new BOB, you don't need bag gloves even if doing a lot of punching, but if you skin your knuckles, you're set back in training as it just takes too much time for that area to heal for striking again. I started using cloth, and it works fine for me.