XMARK Adjustable Speed Bag Platform, 24" Wood Drum, Heavy Duty Wall Mount, Pro Swivel, Low Vibration, for Boxing & MMA Home Gym Training

It's always a bit of a coin toss to see reviews and a product description, and then order a product without seeing it. And I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of paying $57 just to ship this back if it was a bust ... But this choice was a winner. Heavy steel, continuous welds (not spot welding) across the connecting pieces. Well designed to mount on wall studs, with brackets already placed 16" on center. Plastic and steel washers with easy to turn screws hold the platform at the height you choose. Locks in place easily and securely. When you loosen the screws to adjust the height, the platform doesn't fall on your head ... you have to maneuver it so it's completely parallel to the floor to let it slide down. I'm not a boxer, and I use this for cross training, so I can't compare this to a "professional" platform, but in the past I had used lower quality platforms -- with great disappointment -- and this is clearly superior. I can still say that the platform does not shake when the speed bag is bouncing, so the return is consistent. No adding bags of sand on top of the platform to stabilize it, as others had written in their evaluation of competing platforms. Being happy with how it performs makes it more likely you'll actually keep using it to train with a speed bag, rather than to hang your clothes ... Note: there are no instructions with this unit. Just the parts. And it's heavy -- 40+ pounds -- and unwieldy. I had a carpenter install it ... well worth the cost of one hour of labor to have him put it in. (By the way, he's 180 pounds and did a pull up off the end of the platform after installing it to show how solidly it was fixed to the wall...)

Great quality, looks good and there is no vibration whatsoever. I attached mine to the floor joists using two 4 x 4s bolted to a double joist and it is fantastic.

I just turned sixty. :( The last time I used a speed bag was in my teens but I needed a low impact exercise and remembered my younger days. I was pretty darn good back in the day. This is mounted to a wall in my old house and is sturdy. But two issues. Using a stud finder I centered my holes for the wall racks and put them up loose with the lag bolts supplied. But, when I tried to install the platform bracket per instructions, no go. The platform bracket is too wide so I had to mount it on the outside of the wall racks, not the inside per instructions. So, the red knobs are on the inside and harder to adjust. Not sure if its my old house studs or the XMark bracket thats out of wack. So, Measure first!! Second, the swivel has 1/8" up and down slop in the upper part of the swivel. I'm sure I will be happy getting back in the "swing" of things. ;) EDIT: December 4th, 2020 - Updated to FIVE Stars!! - Not only was there vertical slop but horizontal also. The swivel unit uses a master link for a motorcycle chain to hold the bag. The upper part of the link had slop in it also. Both of these issues are easily fixed. First, the vertical 1/8" slop. Unscrew the upper most part of the swivel and inside is a bearing held in by a nut. Remove the nut and bearing and add a large washer under and replace and adjust the nut for proper tightness. Done. Then, for the horizontal slop at the master link. Remove the link clip and add a small nylon washer on each side and re-install. Done!! Easy and cheap. Why didn't the manufacturer do this in the first place??!! Like riding a bike. The basics came back to me with no problem except my shoulders and arms are a lot older.

An excellent addition to grandpa’s home gym and blessings to all wood work specialists for their advice! What worked for me: a template, measure (10) times & cut once, a 3 inch thick 2 X 3 inch support board, neoprene backing behind support board and metal brackets that hold wall mount, proper placement of lag bolts and plenty of level use! Solid equipment for great fitness and self defense fun! The equipment functions great with solid speed reaction, enhanced by the solid backing and material.

This speed bag mount not only works amazing but is elegant to look at as well. The board has a beautiful finish and was packaged as to prevent damage. This completely blows the speed bag mount at the local gym out of the water. I would recommend this over the Valor Athletics type platforms because it protrudes from the wall more making it easier to do behind the bag hitting. Vibration is very minimal, the mount is rock solid. I first mounted two vertical 1x6 boards to the wall studs and then mounted the platform to the 1x6. I have a total of 8 bolts anchoring the platform to the studs. The feature to move the platform up and down works well and I have not experienced any slipping. In my opinion this is the best bag mount that you could possible get for this price point. I haven't tried a chain type swivel before, but I really like the swivel included. I know some other reviewers didn't care too much for the swivel. I think its the bees knees!

I read all of the reviews before buying this platform for my 17 year old son who is a 3rd Degree marital artist and just getting into speed bag training. The reviews were right: it would be good to have more detailed instructions on hanging the platform and for a lawyer like me with no construction skills, I had to have my brother who is a general contractor come and hang the platform just to make sure that the platform was balanced, level and installed correctly. The reviews about the swivel were also on point and that is, it's a pain in the butt to remove the pin that holds the bag onto the swivel. The reviews about having to add additional washers to keep the screws used to raise and lower the platform were not applicable to the platform that was delivered: the adjusting screws are fine, tightly hold the platform in place and do not need extra washers. The reviews commenting on the swivel were also right, namely, that it's not that good of a swivel and my son does not like it. After a day of use, my son is already looking online for a better swivel and I agree, the one that comes with the platform is "ok" but a more professional swivel will make using the bag more fun and satisfying. I'm 56 and during college and law school, I used a speed bag every day with a heavy duty, professional swivel and I remember it performing 100x better than the swivel that is included with the platform here. My son is using what would be referred to as a "peanut" bag and it is "squirrelly" to say the least with the swivel that comes with this platform. The other platform that my son was using has a swivel that is not much better than the one that came with this platform, but it does function better (we tried to switch out the swivel base on each but the screw holes don't line up). I'll be buying a better swivel. Overall, the platform is acceptable and, for all intents and purposes, more than adequate for the purpose it will serve. My brother cut two planks of 1 1/2" x 10" wooden plates to first bolt to the wall and then screwed the platform to the wood (my idea to possibly give the platform more stability and strength but I don't think it made much of a difference). I think that you definitely need to bolt this platform into "thick" beams if you have wooden studs or to make sure that it is firmly bolted into whatever back-surface it will be mounted to since it is, as the other reviews say, heavy. The platform is well made, though I don't think it's professional grade; yet it also wasn't professionally priced. So it's obvious that you get what you pay for and this platform was "almost" worth the $228+ that I paid for it. I think that if I had the skills to build my own platform I would have preferred to have a home made platform like the one that my brother built for me when I was in school (2"x4"s nailed together with a sanded piece of plywood as the striking surface bolted to the wall with support arms; a little bigger than what you get online but whole lot more effective). In short, the platform is a good platform and, under the circumstances as they exist for me, money well spent for my son. If you are thinking about buying this platform, I suggest that you read all of the reviews and make the decision for your self but a decision to buy this platform will not be one to regret. By the way, you definitely need 2 people to hang this if you're not a skilled person with your hands; my brother, a typical tough construction guy said that he could have hung this platform by himself, though I could see that he didn't complain about having my help and the help of my son as the "3" hung the item (my son and me holding it up as my brother drilled the holes and screwed the bolts into the wall). Oh yeah, another trick not explained in the directions is that when leveling the platform, make sure that you know about "reveal" which, as my brother explained, is making sure that the distance from the steel beams to the frame of the platform are the same measure since that's what you really need to notice, otherwise, you may think that your platform is not level when it really is. We used shims on the bottom of the steel posts that the frame connects to and it was not until after tightening the bottom bolts that we realized that the reveal was not correct on each side and from top adjusting red screw to the bottom adjusting red screw. Hope this helps because all of the other reviews did help me before making my decision.

All pieces - steel and wood - are built solid. They assemble exactly, into a sturdy structure with no gaps to cause vibration and no reason to add sandbags on top of the drum. The swivel does the job. It's a chain link, so not quick release; but that's only an issue if constantly changing bags. The height adjustment works smoothly and tightens without any play. The packaging was double-boxed, against external damage. The problem is internal, as my drum was slightly nicked by the pack of bolts that got wedged underneath. Still usable. At this price, the Xmark is half that of the TKO platform, which was the same design and make, except for the wood. I had to return the TKO, because the drum came slightly warped and would not align with the frame. Together with the X-mark heavy bag stand (xm2845), the speed bag platform can be mounted to the front. All the manufacturer's photos show attachment to the rear, which requires another three feet of space to an already sizable layout. The front mount leaves plenty of room for the heavy bag to swing, and no limitation to the height adjustment. Both assemblies seem to have been designed accordingly, but their marketing pictures just don't show it.

Solid. Easy to install with 2 people. High quality. I recommend it to you. Don't skimp and save money and get a cheaper one because you wish you had this one. I mounted it on a 2"x10" screwed to 5 wall studs.

Very good quality. Came exactly as ordered. Heavy duty frame, great quality finish. Count me as a very happy buyer.