Weapons Dummy

Training in Karate you can have a partner and train pretty hard i.e. close to how you would if it was needed. However with weapons this normally means a slow set of drills. So to allow more active delivery i built a training dummy.

This was in part based on wooden Bo dummy used by my Kobudo teacher
Sokei Kaicho Takash Kinjo.

The below was build using car tyres for the striking surfaces head, arms body, groin, thigh, leg and foot. This was version 1

This was great but I found it a little too bouncy for some weapons. In some cases it did not matter how committed you were to a strike it wanted to come back in your face and not to mention dealing with very messy steel belted radial was not fun.

This lead to version 2 that uses round stock pine as the main structure in much the same shape but clad in gym matt that provided a dense striking point that can be used for both Karate and Kobudo practice. 

Same design, head, arms, body, groin, thigh, leg and foot. I added a softer pine neck for Bo targeting shots.