XMark Wall Mounted Speed Bag Platform with Shackle Swivel for MMA and Boxing

This Adjustable Speed Bag Platform is well worth the money. I’m pretty frugal and I could have built a speed bag platform for about $100 but it would NOT have been adjustable and it would NOT have been quiet. I previously bought and returned a cheap platform kit that was very noisy and was not adjustable. Here’s the thing about being adjustable: If your platform is NOT adjustable, you have to get the height exactly right upon installation because if it’s wrong and uncomfortable, you’re going to have to removed the whole platform and put bolts in again. Also, if the platform isn’t adjustable and more than one person is going to use the speed bag, the only way you’re going to be able to adjust for height differences is to place something on the floor of the EXACT difference. It’s just not a workable thing to have a fixed height speed bag platform. Making your own ADJUSTABLE speed bag platform just isn’t going to be cost-effective even if you make minimum wage – I couldn’t find any easy do-it-yourself ideas for an adjustable platform. As for the quiet, you will appreciate how quiet the XMark Adjustable Platform is. You get enough of the satisfying whapity-wap, whapity-wap sound for feedback while you use it, but because of the heavy steel mounting brackets, the heavy adjusting bolts, and the heavy steel frame, this platform doesn’t vibrate at all when you use your speed bag. The only way that this platform with a speed bag will produce noise is if the wall you attach it to flexes. Mine is attached to 2x4s and they flex very little. My neighbors don’t hear me hitting the bag. I have a pool table, though, and they hear the click of the balls. And they hear me hitting my wooden dummy and the heavy bag. The heavy bag hangs from 2x4s and the wooden dummy has “arms” and a “leg” that move and make noise when I hit it. But this platform is surprisingly heavy, solid and quiet. The platform comes with everything you need but a bag. It even has hand tools for assembly and installation. All the nuts, bolts, and tools are vacuum sealed to a piece of cardboard and clearly labeled to correspond to the instruction sheet. I put my platform together in order and as shown and it was up very quickly. I did use a level that does not come with the kit. Any old bubble level will work. I would have got this whole thing together and up in 15 or 20 minutes if I had help. I did not, and I put it up alone. It is heavy, so, because I was alone, I assembled it and put a rope over the rafters and around the platform to hold it close to the wall while I leveled it and placed the bolts. I put it into place ONCE and because it is adjustable vertically, I used the adjustments to put the bag at the correct height for me. I have a buddy who is much shorter than I am and I can adjust for him. This is so nicely made I know it’s going to last the rest of my life. There is NO REASON to make one yourself, buy a cheaper or more expensive platform. This is the right buy. Can’t be better. This would work in a commercial gym, in my opinion.