Jeet Kune Do Essentials - Heavy Bag

Realistic impact training on equipment is a vital and necessary training component for any martial artist seeking to develop or enhance their performance skills. Each volume of the "JKD Essentials" training guide series explores one or more pieces of training equipment in-depth and offer numerous ways in which they can be used to enhance your personal growth and development.

The heavy bag is one of the most important and essential pieces of training equipment any martial artist can possess. It can be used to develop a multitude of essential qualities such as power, timing, rhythm, accuracy, balance, proper recovery, etc. You can use the heavy bag for not only developing devastating power in your kicks and strikes, but learning to apply that power as well. The heavy bag is also an invaluable tool for developing your sense of timing. Unlike focus gloves or kicking shields, a heavy bag doesn't require the assistance of a partner around in order to be able to use it.

"JKD Essentials - Heavy Bag" covers all facets of training with the heavy bag, including:
* Proper safety when using the heavy bag
* The Various combative tools (hands, feet, elbows, knees, etc.)
* Training the 5 Ways of Attack
* Combining footwork and mobility skills with combative tools
* Shifting between various ranges of distance

- and more.

Offering over 175 examples of training drills you can use, "JKD Essentials - Heavy Bag" serves as a handy, quick and easy reference guide to heavy bag training and will allow you to create literally hundreds of different drills to suit your own particular needs and to develop and/or enhance your martial art performance skills.