This is a tool that is not 'necesssary' for your boxing gym or its conditioning corner, per se, but is so cheap to make that you might as well.
We use this item to do 'chops' and 'lifts' per the likes of Gray Cook and Mike Boyle. If you are not well-versed in the movement(s), see here:
http://www.functionalmovement.com/SITE/publications/downloads/cschoplift.pdf
or here:
http://www.performbetter.com/catalog/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_186_A_PageName_E_Cookchoplift
Anyway, the functional cable bar runs around $100. [ http://www.performbetter.com/detail.aspx_Q_ID_E_4710_A_CategoryID_E_239 ] The ones we use run around $5. Granted, the product from Perform Better and Gray Cook is a good one, but seems to be a little more than our junior boxers need.
So what do we do? Depending upon the size of youngsters/boxers we are going to have using this, we take a 2' or 3' long piece of 1.5" diameter PVC pipe, buy a couple of caps therefore, and then a couple of eye bolts with nuts. Again, this raw material total is somewhere between three and five dollars.
Now, drill a hole in each one of the caps and put an eye bolt through there. If you want it to be extra sturdy, put some Gorilla Glue or epoxy on the nut/bolt combo threads. Then glue the caps on with epoxy or PVC glue, and voila. You now have a 'functional movement bar' for about 1/20th the price.
We use this item to do 'chops' and 'lifts' per the likes of Gray Cook and Mike Boyle. If you are not well-versed in the movement(s), see here:
http://www.functionalmovement.com/SITE/publications/downloads/cschoplift.pdf
or here:
http://www.performbetter.com/catalog/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_186_A_PageName_E_Cookchoplift
Anyway, the functional cable bar runs around $100. [ http://www.performbetter.com/detail.aspx_Q_ID_E_4710_A_CategoryID_E_239 ] The ones we use run around $5. Granted, the product from Perform Better and Gray Cook is a good one, but seems to be a little more than our junior boxers need.
So what do we do? Depending upon the size of youngsters/boxers we are going to have using this, we take a 2' or 3' long piece of 1.5" diameter PVC pipe, buy a couple of caps therefore, and then a couple of eye bolts with nuts. Again, this raw material total is somewhere between three and five dollars.
Now, drill a hole in each one of the caps and put an eye bolt through there. If you want it to be extra sturdy, put some Gorilla Glue or epoxy on the nut/bolt combo threads. Then glue the caps on with epoxy or PVC glue, and voila. You now have a 'functional movement bar' for about 1/20th the price.
