Homemade Training Equipment

[pressureguy]

Everyone list your favorite homemade training equipment.
Please, no weapons. Just stick to things like striking pads, homemade gloves, stretching machines, etc.

Maybe this thread will become a sticky.

pressureguy

[pressureguy]

I will list a few off the top of my head. I will check my notes and list more later:

1. Take a 2-liter soda bottle and fill it up about 2/3's with water. Tie it with some rope from a tree or rafter and use it as a striking target. The higher the branch or rafter is, the farther the arc and longer return time for the bottle to come back to you. I have used sand as well, but prefer water.

2. Use "Fun Noodles" as blocking bats. Fun Noodles are those foam tubes that people use as pool toys. They can act as striking bats that are sold for around $30 (US) by marital art companies.

3. A upholster company could make striking shields. They would be similar to large couch cushions.

Everyone keep adding and try to continue numbering the ideas.
The next person should start with #4.

pressureguy

[ddrive]

Here's Mine

No Problem.

1. Power Wheel. Find a GT Bike with pegs attached, and take the front tire off. Tape the pegs with duct tape, and you have a power wheel.

2. Standing Heavy Bag [aka Ghetto WaveMaster]. My buddy did this so I can't take the credit. It involves a lot of tires, a reasonably-sized tree that stands straight up with a diameter less than a car tire, and plenty of sandbags. Saw off the tree at height 6 - 8 ft from the ground. This is the tricky part: As you start stacking the tires [placing them so that the stem of tree goes through the open space of the tire], fill each tire with sandbags and make sure they're securely connected [by bolts or some other method]. When the tires reach to or close to the height of the tree, find something to cover the top.

[pressureguy]

I like the ghetto wavemaster. It reminded me of another similar idea:

6. Make an easel out of lumber and bolt a tire to it. You can cut up another tire into thirds and bolt the three sections on as arms and a head as well.

7. Tie or tape a rope to a tennis ball and use it as a striking target.

8. Use empty anti-freeze jugs as striking targets. One person holds the handle of the jug and another person kicks the target.

[pressureguy]

9. Here is a site with free plans for building your own traditional mook yan jong (Wing Chun Wooden Dummy) http://www.wckfc.com/news/dummy/

10. Here are the plans for a pvc dummy http://karateconnection.com/dummy.htm

[Tom Yum]

Sandbag.

You can hang it and hit it like a heavybag.
You can also lift it and throw it for plyos.

[ddrive]

That Boxer does the same thing.

Sandbag. You can also lift it and throw it for plyos.

Ross (from WarriorForce.com/RossBoxing.com) does same thing

[ddrive]

If you bench press.

You'll need 2 empty water cooler containers and a steel bar. Attach the containers to the opposite ends of the steel bar. Adjust the weight by adding or subtracting water from the containers and make sure they have equal amounts.

[blitz]

Well.. dosen't the water get out if you have the bar just a little bit leaned to the right or to the left, or if you fill it up too much? :O Unless the bar closes the gap completely.

[ddrive]

Well.. dosen't the water get out if you have the bar just a little bit leaned to the right or to the left, or if you fill it up too much? :O Unless the bar closes the gap completely.

Everyone has a different method to secure the water containers to the bar. That's why I left it kinda open.

[aseepish]

Mike Young's book has some neat projects in it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080483170X/102-6316778-5076122?v=glance&n=283155

[Sensei Saki]

I know a lot of people and pets named Mike.
Oh, you are a poet.

[aseepish]

For I have known them all already, known them all-
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?