A Question for Adjustable Platform Owners

[MsDeville]

I am always reading about baggers who are looking for a good adjustable speed bag platform rather than a stationary platform. I think one reason for buying an adjustable platform is for the convenience of other baggers in the family.

My question is this: How often are you adjusting the platform? Daily? Weekly? Do you find that it doesn't get adjusted very often, if at all?

I would love to hear responses from the APOs — Adjustable Platform Owners. What do you LIKE and DON'T LIKE about your adjustable platform. Thanks! - MsDeville

[BrandonTheRaven]

With my Adjustable platform that ive had for 3 months now, Ive only had to move it maybe twice just to switch of different sized bags. Main reason i got it was so i didn't have to compensate whenever i had to switch a bag out and have it out of my hit zone. Although it's nice to have the ability to switch bags and reset the platform. Having a solid platform would be alot better for someone who only likes to use one size and brand of bags (Taking from my experience).

B.Raven

[Speedbag]

Originally Posted by MsDeville

I am always reading about baggers who are looking for a good adjustable speed bag platform rather than a stationary platform. I think one reason for buying an adjustable platform is for the convenience of other baggers in the family.

My question is this: How often are you adjusting the platform? Daily? Weekly? Do you find that it doesn't get adjusted very often, if at all?

I would love to hear responses from the APOs — Adjustable Platform Owners. What do you LIKE and DON'T LIKE about your adjustable platform. Thanks! - MsDeville

I think the secret to this topic is the ease of adjustment for the board you own.


I've got two types of adjustable platforms, One type the Primefighter 400 is easy to adjust, the other style wall unit hard to adjust (needs wrenches). I have two of these up in my garage.

Basically, I only adjust the "easy" board, requiring no wrenches. I adjust for (1) different size bags and (2) different size people (family, friends, grandkids).

As for #1, I don't really change bag sizes all that much, pretty much hanging with 8x5. Different brands I try may differ in shape a bit, but not size so much, so I rarely adjust for that. I raise the board up a bit if I change to a 9x6, which I do like to use occassionally. Truth is, for me I probaby don't adjust this more than x1 or x2 month.

#2. I always adjust the board and bag belly to any family or friend who happens to be in the house and hitting for any length of time. I don't do any organized or scheduled teaching in the house anymore so I rarely have to do this. When my wife was hitting a lot (not this year..) I would (a) lower the indoor board down for her, and if she was outside in the garage, I would (b) put down the stepping platform for her to stand on. (hard to lower these boards, so I set and forget. all adjustment is done from the ground. Tall people can use a wider stance and stoop down if needed, but that rarely occurs). For myself in the garage, I've got a few plywood lengths I put down to stand on if I need to raise up an inch or so. I've love to change these older style boards out with a few I-Box for ease of adjustment.

For a while (3 years or so) my favorite students were the two grandkids who live 25 miles away. The speed bags were fun for a while and I lowered them down when they wanted to hit. Those were great times, but now they can't put their cellphones down long enough to do anything requiring more than 15 seconds of their attention, so any physical activity is out of the question. Perhaps a bag with a keyboard design on the belly would work..

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I'm also thinking about taking the primefighter 400 down due to much larger wall space required and extra weight load on the wall. An I-Box would work fine with a lot less weight. I think one of the 2x4 studs holding the lag screws is split and I need to probably repair that. If I tear into the wall to do that I think I would replace the studs holding speed bag units to 4x4's instead of 2x4.

[Randolph]

Originally Posted by MsDeville

I am always reading about baggers who are looking for a good adjustable speed bag platform rather than a stationary platform. I think one reason for buying an adjustable platform is for the convenience of other baggers in the family.

My question is this: How often are you adjusting the platform? Daily? Weekly? Do you find that it doesn't get adjusted very often, if at all?

I would love to hear responses from the APOs — Adjustable Platform Owners. What do you LIKE and DON'T LIKE about your adjustable platform. Thanks! - MsDeville

We have an adjustable board at the health club we go to, but you have to stand on a chair to loosen the lugs before rotating the board up or down and re-tightening the lugs, so, we just go over to the aerobics class and sneak off with stepping platform and use it to adjust for the height difference. It might be easier and less costly to just mount it high and use a floor platform to compensate for the shorter person, we would up doing the same thing here at home for now. I'd bet a board with an adjustable mechanism that is really quick and easy to use would be costly, but probably worth it! If two people are working out together on the same board, rotating turns, you have to adjust it every time you trade off, so we found quickly sliding a platform into place is much quicker and easier for the two of us, but this may not solve the problem of a 3+ person family set up of several height requirements.

[newbagger]

I agree with Randolph. I have an adjustable platform, but never adjust it. I made a raised platform out of scrap wood (it is 2 and 1/4 inch high) and it is quick and simple to just lay it on the floor whenever a shorter bagger is hitting the bag.

[Zaza]

Mine only takes seconds to adjust...they just don't make them like they used to!

[ventanakaz]

i have an adjustable platform but like alan said, mine i would have to break out the tools to unbolt it and move it up and down but that is to much of a pain in the a** cause it's so heavy with four boards and sandbags on top. if i had one that i could adjust easly then i'd be adjusting it all the time cause i like to go back and forth from different bag sizes (4x6 to 6x9) and at a later date i'll get a 7x10. so i would adjust it all the time. for now i just deal with it...ralph...(edit) and i can't use a wooden platform on the ground like some people use here cause my feet are all over the place when i hit. i like to use footwork when i'm bagging sometimes it's like i'm dancing

[MsDeville]

Originally Posted by Zaza

Mine only takes seconds to adjust...they just don't make them like they used to!

Zaza, YOU'RE THE MAN!






You are a lucky dog to have found such a beautiful piece of equipment. It's sturdy, made of high-quality materials, and it's HIGHLY functional and EASY to adjust. They just don't make them like that anymore.


Don't tell Trainer Raul, but I have platform envy.