Muay Thai: Is there a difference between hitting pads and hitting a heavy bag?

when practicing your swing kicks, what is the difference between kicking the pads and the heavy bag and what does each one do for your kick that%26#039;s different than the other? or are they the same.|||Bag will allow you to work on power strikes.





Pads will help you with focus and timing.|||Pads are for aim, timing and technique and the bag is also for technique but you can get some serious power with out hurting your partner whos usually holding the pads, you get you partner to hold the pads and you aim for them and ignore the pads your focus is on the part of there body the kick would normally go to and the bag is to do the same thing but as hard as you possibly can|||heavy bags teach you focuse and fucus timing were as pads give you practice on snap techniques and target. Look up Karate techiques