How to make a wall-mounted makiwara with your own hands

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

The study of martial arts is an integral part of many people's lives. Someone does it just as a hobby, setting aside a couple of evenings a week for classes. And someone, being a professional athlete, devotes all his time and energy to this. But no matter if it's a hobby or a lifestyle, if a person takes a combat sport seriously, then he knows how important it is to hone his skills again and again and have prepared striking surfaces.

The best assistant for this is a makiwara (a special device for practicing strikes), which is in any gym. But what to do if there is no opportunity to visit the gym for some reason, but you need to train? To do this, you can and should make a makiwara yourself. How? You will find the answer to this question in this article - in it we will look at how makiwara is made with our own hands.

For starters, it's worth saying that there are generally 2 types of makiwara: hanging and standing.

As a home-made portable, the hanging one is very successful. More precisely, its variety is a wall-mounted makiwara. This fixture can be hung on an indoor wall or on a tree or pole onstreet.

What is needed to make a good handmade makiwara:

• Polyurethane (thickness from 5 to 10 mm). Ordinary tourist foam (foam mat) can replace it. This is a shock absorbing material.
• Leatherette or burlap for upholstery. It is better to have a supply of material.
• Elastic bands (width from 3 to 5 cm) or ropes for fastening (to a tree or pole).
• Velcro for fastening (to a tree or pole).
• 4-8 screws (wall mount).
• Screwdriver.

Production process

Our makiwara should consist of three links vertically connected to each other.

Plates are cut out of polyurethane (or rug), about 20-25 by 35-40 cm in size. Each section can be made from two or three plates. It depends both on your level of training and on the thickness of the shock absorber.

Next, we take the material prepared for sheathing and fold it into two layers. We arrange it vertically and lay out the column of the plate. We put the same layer of skin on top and sew the front and back parts of it. You can also run seams between the plates.

Elastic bands are sewn to the lower and upper edges (to the edges of which Velcro is sewn) or ropes with which the makiwara will be fixed. This option is great for attaching to a tree or pole.

If a wall is used as a support, then simply fasten it with screws (if desired, you can nail it with dowels) in the right place. Here's a makiwara for youhandmade!

Another option for making a portable makiwara is the following: go to the pet store and buy a cat scratching post. Then you get two rubber bands with hooks at the ends in some hardware store (you can make them yourself) and connect the whole structure together. It turns out a good projectile that can be hung on a tree or a pole.

There is another way! You can wrap a small board with hemp (you can put something under it for softness). Then think of a suitable mount, and a do-it-yourself makiwara is made.

And finally, the easiest way is to take an old thick book and attach it to the wall, tearing off the cover.

A good ready-made portable option is Badyuk-Shilov's makiwara. This is a portable version of the patented Kamerton Shilova makiwara, which is considered by many professionals and martial artists to be the best.

Usually referred to as MBSH, or simply Badyuk makiwara. It is more difficult to make it with your own hands than those that we considered above. But there is a possibility. You just need to learn how it works and choose the right materials.

Still, it is worth remembering that a good and high-quality makiwara, assembled at home with your own hands, can replace the equipment you have in the gym and will allow you not to lose the precious time that you can devote to training. Constant practice will make your punch technical, powerful and piercing.