Russell Crowe does a short speed bag routine in the Cinderella Man. He is using a #3 super swivel. Is this a period swivel, it looks to advanced for 1935.
Cinderella man and the #3 swivel?
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Period swivels
that is a great question. The history of punching bag equipment, particular the speed bag as we know it today (punch ball in this article), is hard to find.
Jimmy Braddock on Speed bag 1
Jimmy Braddock on Speed Bag 2 (interesting swivel)
Here are a few swivels of that Era
Tony Canzaneri on speed bag ( career: 1925 - 1939
Rocky Graciano ( career: 1943 - 1952 career)
Gus Lesnevich on speed bag (1940's)
* some interesting Boxing historical information
* Boxing Biograhies
* History of Boxing:Wikipedia
Hollywood often re-writes history. In Downtown San Antonio Texas there is an IMAX (Large Screen) THEATER that has a movie called Alamo: the price of Freedom. A cool movie, but if you look closely you will see several of the mexican soldiers clearing the walls in 1836 wearing wrist watches, which were not invented until 1900
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History of speed bag equipment
Originally posted by Big_Nesticles View Postthanks for the info speedbag ive always meant to look up the history of the speed bag but just never got around to it.
I imagine the first swivels were strands of rope, (which shortened over time for speedier rebounds) and bags were animal skins or bladders filled with water for more bounce.Speed Bag
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Originally posted by Speedbag View Postthat is a great question. The history of punching bag equipment, particular the speed bag as we know it today (punch ball in this article), is hard to find.
Jimmy Braddock on Speed bag 1
Jimmy Braddock on Speed Bag 2 (interesting swivel)
Here are a few swivels of that Era
Tony Canzaneri on speed bag ( career: 1925 - 1939
Rocky Graciano ( career: 1943 - 1952 career)
Gus Lesnevich on speed bag (1940's)
* some interesting Boxing historical information
* Boxing Biograhies
* History of Boxing:Wikipedia
Hollywood often re-writes history. In Downtown San Antonio Texas there is an IMAX (Large Screen) THEATER that has a movie called Alamo: the price of Freedom. A cool movie, but if you look closely you will see several of the mexican soldiers clearing the walls in 1836 wearing wrist watches, which were not invented until 1900
things that make go "hmm"
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Big Speed Bags
Originally posted by Chris M View PostAnyone else notice how freaking big those bags are that all the guys in the old days used?
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Take note of the pics where the platforms are not wall mounted. They are self standing "rooms" about six feet square from what I can determine. You can work the bag all the way around and walk with it. Not a whole lot to them, looks like 2" pipe and a heavy plywood ceiling. It just takes a fair chunk of space.
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Originally posted by Dutchman View PostTake note of the pics where the platforms are not wall mounted. They are self standing "rooms" about six feet square from what I can determine. You can work the bag all the way around and walk with it. Not a whole lot to them, looks like 2" pipe and a heavy plywood ceiling. It just takes a fair chunk of space.
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From photos I've seen it looks like there was plenty of cross bracing across the top of these units. We're not talking three quarter inch plywood sitting on four posts. It appears the tops were framed like a wall section which would give it plenty of rigidity. I would like to be able to inspect a unit like that. If I had the space I think that this is the way to go.
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1941 ballhook
You can clearly see the Ballhook Swivel in this picture of Billy Conn training from the 1940's.
You will notice in the conn.net website that he fought Gus Lesnevich twice, who was mentioned in the earlier post.
Looks like that ballhook was pretty prevalent in the 1940's.Last edited by Speedbag; 02-21-2007, 07:06 PM.Speed Bag
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More vintage speed bag pictures
Here are a few more boxing photo's with speed bag in them. Most are from www.pugilistica.com
Benny Paret on the speed bag
Long speed bag board in background
Dempsey Training camp, speed bag in background
boxer skipping rope, speed bags in background
boxer under speed bag balcony (notice rebound ring around swivel..)
Speed Bag on the "USS Olympic", sister ship of Titanic.Speed Bag
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