Dec 29 2010

New Gym Bag

“Stop….I see the jewelry collection!”
— Lucy, seated in a shopping cart, as we pass by the Costco jewelery cases

As the months have passed, I’ve slowly accumulated more and more stuff for my Krav Maga classes. At a certain point my old gym bag just didn’t have the room for my newly acquired gear. So I did a little research and found a local small business that had the bag I wanted.

How small was the local business? Well, small enough that soon after I placed my order the VP of the company emailed and asked if he could drop the bag off personally. I said “sure” and the bag was handed off to me the next day. Is that service or what?

The bag is pretty neat, made out of canvas hemp. From the vendor’s website:

Hemp is the strongest and most durable of all natural textile fibers (4X stronger than cotton). Hemp is a porous fiber which allows air to pass through easily helping to keep you or your gear aired out. Hemp is also anti-microbial so bacteria, fungus and mold can’t live in it. Hemp is also UV resistant.

That sounded good to me, especially the anti-microbial part. Gym bags can get pretty ripe so anything to help combat this is a very good thing. Here’s a pic of my gear along with the new bag:

See, I wasn’t lying when I said the gear was accumulating! Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I go through the hassle of actually carting this stuff to class every day just so I can get roughed up by various people!

Though you can’t really tell by the picture, even when stuffed with all my gear the new bag still has a decent amount of room left over. Here’s another view of the bag, all zipped up and ready to go:

I think the new bag is going to work out fine for a long time to come. Now, if I could only master rotating my hips, pivoting my feet, and keeping my hands up, I’d be well on my way to being halfway decent.

By mike • by Mike, Misc • 2 • Tags: bag, Gadgets, gym, kidspeak, krav maga