tommarker Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 Fireka, Save a few pennies and purchase Yang Jwing-ming's book Analysis of Shaolin Chin Na: Instructor's Manual for All Martial Styles. You'll want it further down the road anyway, trust me In the beginning, Dr. Yang gives some excellent exercises for strengthening the hands and wrists. Strong hands are especially helpful in joint locking, but the benefits apply to strikers as well. I am not in favor generally of repeatedly banging your hands against hard objects in order to build large calcium deposits. I do perform this myself from time to time, but more as a check on my form and focus than as a toughening exercise. So I wouldn't suggest a makiwara, IMHO. A heavy bag is far better. If you have a basement, I would consider hanging a heavy bag. Between that and the exercises in the above book, you'll be set. I don't know how to make one, but Michael Janich has a book out there on how to make your own training equipment... I'll see if I can dig up that resource. I'm no longer posting here. Adios.
tommarker Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 Homemade Martial Arts Training Equipment : A Do-It-Yourself Guide by Michael Janich both texts are available via Amazon, $16.07 and $14.00 respectively. I'm no longer posting here. Adios.
fireka Posted April 10, 2003 Author Posted April 10, 2003 thanks! ill check in to it, that sounds useful! "i could dance like that!.......if i felt like it...." -Master Betty
IAMA_chick Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 you can get a punching bad cheaper at like at dicks sporting goods or something. i have a hanging and a free standing and i got both of them there. also try something like play it again sports.. Tae Kwon Do15-years oldpurple--belt
dtstiachi Posted March 26, 2005 Posted March 26, 2005 Just do what Toby Stevens did in Die Another Day. Use your little brother or sister when they make you mad. I'M JUST KIDDING. I LOVE MY SIBLINGS!!! "The journey of a 1,000 miles starts with but a single step."
JusticeZero Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 "Martial Arts Home Training: The Complete Guide to the Construction and Use of Home Training Equipment" - Mike Young, Tuttle Publishing C 1999 (don't know if there's been revisions or reprints) "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia
Shorinryu Sensei Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 I knew a guy once who went to the local army surplus store and bought a military canvas duffle bag and two sleeping pads for about 15 bucks, he rolled the sleeping pads up and placed them in the duffle bag as padding around the inside and then filled it with sand. cut the straps off so all that you have is the hook at the top, hang it up and you have a pretty good punching bag.A waste of money. My sensei and our class chipped in and bought a surplus bag...good as new, and did what you describe. It lasted less than 10 minutes of punching and kicking it. We bought a 2nd bag and inserted the 1st bag into it. It lasted maybe 15 minutes. Both tore apart in the middle where we were kicking it. They aren't made for that sort of impact. My nightly prayer..."Please, just let me win that PowerBall Jackpot just once. I'll prove to you that it won't change me!"
krzychicano Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 Nothing beats using live people as equipment What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. - Confucius
aefibird Posted April 7, 2005 Posted April 7, 2005 That's whay we let kids train at our dojo. (j/k!!!) "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
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