So I'm now the proud owner of not one, but two boxing rings in progress.
How did this happen?
A month or two ago, I had the bright idea of making corner posts by cementing wooden stakes into four heavy duty flower pots. I painted the stakes and bases a beautiful steel grey, screwed hooks into them, got some nice flax rope... but even though the corner posts weigh over 30kg / 66lbs each, they still wobble. To make it worse, my fight space – including the mats that would provide the canvas for the ring – is upstairs, and getting the corner posts there would be cumbersome to say the least (I tried one, and nearly fell down the stairs with the corner post on top of me.) Thankfully, there is enough space for a ring where I did the cementing, outside, so I decided to leave the unfinished ring there, at the back of the house where I'm living, and have used for shadow boxing a couple of times, though it's now in a shed and probably won't be brought out again until next Summer.
But for an indoor ring, it was back to the drawing board. In the end I came up with the idea of having a 'suspended' ring, based on a system of hooks in the walls, steel chains and turnbuckles, cutting out the need for corner posts altogether. (See pic.) So far I've just suspended one rope, but it works: the turnbuckles ensure that the rope can be tightened taut enough for a boxer to bounce off the rope. More ropes will be added soon (the material isn't cheap and I'm still thinking about how I'm going to attach the lower ropes: suspended from the top rope, or suspended individually from the walls.) Ring size: 220 x 220 cm / 7.2 x 7.2 feet.
kodiak3u (5 )
2024-09-21 17:00It's a good idea a suspended ring and the way you made it get help to quickly time to prepare or take down .
simon6847 (12)
2024-08-30 12:40Wonderful work
StrikeFighter (78 )
2024-08-25 09:20So I'm now the proud owner of not one, but two boxing rings in progress.
How did this happen?
A month or two ago, I had the bright idea of making corner posts by cementing wooden stakes into four heavy duty flower pots. I painted the stakes and bases a beautiful steel grey, screwed hooks into them, got some nice flax rope... but even though the corner posts weigh over 30kg / 66lbs each, they still wobble. To make it worse, my fight space – including the mats that would provide the canvas for the ring – is upstairs, and getting the corner posts there would be cumbersome to say the least (I tried one, and nearly fell down the stairs with the corner post on top of me.) Thankfully, there is enough space for a ring where I did the cementing, outside, so I decided to leave the unfinished ring there, at the back of the house where I'm living, and have used for shadow boxing a couple of times, though it's now in a shed and probably won't be brought out again until next Summer.
But for an indoor ring, it was back to the drawing board. In the end I came up with the idea of having a 'suspended' ring, based on a system of hooks in the walls, steel chains and turnbuckles, cutting out the need for corner posts altogether. (See pic.) So far I've just suspended one rope, but it works: the turnbuckles ensure that the rope can be tightened taut enough for a boxer to bounce off the rope. More ropes will be added soon (the material isn't cheap and I'm still thinking about how I'm going to attach the lower ropes: suspended from the top rope, or suspended individually from the walls.) Ring size: 220 x 220 cm / 7.2 x 7.2 feet.
More updates to follow.