Thank you.

As this year comes to a close, I have been thinking a lot about the support we have from our customers, social media followers, and new friends that have been made. Every year I am blown away by the support and enthusiasm of our speed bag community. Although we are still growing, for us, this has been a year for the books! We have had more pros than cons. We have welcomed dozens of new baggers, had over 1100 orders, created our new Pro Balls, introduced The Blade and 2.0, had a podcast and made many new friends along the way. We have had financial obstacles navigating new tariff rules, like many American small businesses. As frustrating as it has been to raise some prices, it did not create a lull in orders. We are all in this together and our community has stood tall with us and supported us nonstop. This has to be a blog post because we have a LOT of thanks to give. It is a read but there are cute pet photos at the end!

We have not gotten to where we are without the help of many people. Jeff is constantly putting out content to attract new baggers and old baggers to what we all do. We see you. We are paying attention to when you tag and/or tell people to follow Jeff for lessons, get your equipment from us and follow us. Jeff gets so many of these notifications daily and we THANK YOU! Working on finding a way to support those who support us via socials. In talks now trying to decide how we can navigate promo codes and other means of showing our appreciation. @speedbagbert, @speedbagbard, @speedbagging_b, @speedbagspidey, @speedbag_ox, @speedbag_scotsman, @speedbagskunk, @speedbaglabs, @speedbagbible, @asboxingandfitness, @speedbagbarber AND SO MANY MORE! I almost didn't add this paragraph because there are so many more of you and I don't want to hurt anyones feelings if you are left out of this list! Trust me, we see you and we appreciate you!

Jeff was once told by a fellow swivel maker, "You will never sell 1000 swivels in a year." Guess they just didn't try hard enough. He has also been told that you cannot make a living doing this. And we have. I welcome all unsolicited comments such as these - because it only makes us work harder FOR YOU.

THANK YOU.

Looking towards 2026, Jeff and I think a lot about new innovations, how to better support every baggers' needs, as well as how to show our appreciation to those that have been here since Day 1, 2020. I am putting the final touches on our loyalty program that should finally roll out this Spring. We are updating our website and adding live shipping prices. I will still be looking around for the best prices for our international customers - because there are a TON of you! I am listing the countries and including many towns below.

More coming up in 2026 - We have been working with Eras Noel since 2020 on his speed bag counter, the Speed Champ. Eras is the founder of Athletic Interpretations and a graduate of Notre Dame. While in school, he had a class project and he chose to make a speed bag counter. He ended up getting the counter patented. A couple of years later, in the summer of 2020, our paths crossed on Instagram. This eventually led to a collaboration of first, Eras helping Jeff with his provisional patent on his stringed drum. Then taking Jeff's EVO drawings and putting them in a 3D form for manufacturing. His original counter was created for u-hooks and has now been changed to use with our ball and hook swivels. Jeff and the guys are now actively testing the prototypes and the app programing. Hope to have them on the site for him soon! Thank you, Eras for trusting us and our swivels for your counters - cannot wait for them to roll out!

Thank you to The Original Speedbag and the wonderful team behind the brand, starting with founder Omi, Lorenzo, Patrick and Jacopo. Although we make our own drums, that does not mean we cannot appreciate and support our Italian brothers and their top of the line custom wood work! We deeply appreciate your continued support, love you all and look forward to working with you further in 2026.

We also want to send a big THANK YOU to our speed bag manufacturer Jim Bradley! James and his team have worked hard on fulfilling Jeff's precise designs for our speed bags. We can't wait to see what we can come up with in 2026.

Thank you Juan Zambrano for the MANY, MANY hours of work you did for the podcast and our kick ass swivel photos! You are one gifted guy and helped us tons this year!

The Thrasher House has many types of customers. ALL are appreciated and we are thankful for every one of you. Then there are also a few that just want to support us. They do not need 30 t-hooks. They have bags and swivels that are not in use and maybe have not even been opened. These OG's that simply want to support us - we see you and we thank you the most. You know who you are.

And last but not least, the plethora of friends, family and baggers that we (mainly Jeff) speaks to daily. I cannot begin to tell you or try to describe the MANY calls, audio messages, videos, emails (this one is me!) and DM's Jeff gets daily. All day. All night. Worldwide, every time zone. I actually get a laugh everytime I hear a Mike Grewcock audio message sped up 2x in the background. "How did you understand any of that?" Ha, ha! We love ya Mike! Or when Jeff says, "Babes, I will be right back." After an hour I realize, he must be talking to Custom Mike. These are tiny bits of communication from friends and baggers. If I had the time, the real list would be longer than this already lengthy post! You all know who you are and we appreciate the support, encouragement, suggestions, social tags and product mentions and honest feedback more than you know!

The following is something I do every year. I love seeing all the locations, worldwide, that are representing our products! It is humbling and for myself, shows how hard work and hustle pays off. Sometimes you can get lost in the day to day and forget to be present. Taking a beat to look at this, for myself, slows everything down and gives me even more motivation for the New Year. Thank you ALL. Happy New Year and SO MUCH LOVE from us at The Thrasher House!

List of repeat and new members of The Thrasher House Family that we shipped to this year.

United States - 49 States

Australia

• Keilor East

• Glenorchy

• Brunswick West

• Armidale

• Victor Harbor

• Bexley

United Kingdom

• Sheerness

• Motherwell

• Stratford Upon Avon

• Wrangle

• Spennymoor

• Torquay

• Northolt

• Wigan

• West Byfleet

• Pontefract

Canada

• Arnprior

• Maple Ridge

• Yarmouth

• St. Catharines

• Georgina

• Mission

• Sherwood Park

• New Westminster

• Burton

• Duncan

• Kugaaruk

• Toronto

• North York

• Mississauga

• Calgary

• Saint Ignace De

• Loyola

Spain

• Madrid

• Arrasate

• Mondragon

• Lorca

• Viator Almeria

Germany

Israel

Hong Kong

Netherlands

Japan

Italy

Switzerland

Mexico

Greece

Austria

U.A.E.

Denmark

Brazil

Singapore

New Zealand

Iceland

France

Belgium

China

Czechia

One last thing - we know a bunch of you are animal lovers so I wanted to share our 2 newest additions this year. A 72 lb. rescue named, Blue. He followed Jeff home from walking our lab, Idgy, one morning and has never left! He loves to wedge between your legs when standing, have one paw on you when laying down or lays on a foot. Then in July, a little black and boney poof of hair with big terrified eyes was sitting under our car. We tried many different names and Bow stuck. She is Bow Fury, Bow Curious, Bow Chill; etc. She has some SPUNK and isn't scared of anything but the Vet and LOVES her nerf bullets. She fetches and brings them back. Here are some photos - they join our rescue Lab, Idgy 13 years old, Bearded Dragon, Mondo, and two other rescue felines Littlefoot and Gizmo.

If you have a local shelter or animal rescue group around, don't forget about them! Give a little money, pet store gift cert, amazon gift cert, old towels, bleach, paper towels, trash bags if you don't have much to give. They will take it happily and thankfully! In Corpus, we support Edgar & Ivy a rescue cat sanctuary. They take in injured and surrendered cats. Unfortunately, most of the injuries are caused by violent humans. This takes a toll on you mentally, as well as emotionally. They do the REAL work. I am attaching a link if you want to donate to a wonderful program.

They are on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgarandivy_catsanctuary/

Here is the link to donate

https://linktr.ee/edgarandivyscatsanctuary?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnf8kqGyPMCh-XPzW9efqzptcF3rvY63J9u1RRbbHPlNnXHCdB7yKJS07ecfw_aem_aSIleqHssykNyizy7qatrQ

Please note - we are Out of Office Monday, Jan. 5th - Tuesday, Jan. 13th for some much needed family R&R! (Bodhi packs a lot of stickers and t-hooks, he needs a vacation ha, ha!!) All orders made during this time will be shipped Wed. Jan. 14th.

HAPPY NEW YEAR with love from April, Jeff, Bodhi and the many mutts!