Shortening a shinai for indoor practice?

[Shizuka na Tou]

Hi everyone, I'm new here:) .

My cielings are to low to do suburi inside. My sensei recommended I shorten a shinai down and weight the end to make up the difference. Any suggestions on how to do this?

[ACRAWFORD]

Hi everyone, I'm new here:) .

My cielings are to low to do suburi inside. My sensei recommended I shorten a shinai down and weight the end to make up the difference. Any suggestions on how to do this?


I am new to kendo however, my suggestion would be to cut it the desired lenth then purchace a weight for it from ebougu or another supplier. It should be a simple operation.

[Alicia]

i made a shorter shinai (i call it a minai) for practicing indoors with, by cutting an old broken one shorter, and taping iron nails to the inside, until it was just a bit heavier than a normal length shinai. a friend of mine made one by filling it with sand and bolts and things and taping around the outside. it doesnt look pretty, but it does the trick and feels like a shinai, not just a stick.

[midnightdawn]

Check out this thread: http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1794

It's about a heavy mini shinai for indoor subari practice purposes.

[Hai_hai]

This is basic physics. You are basically creating a hammer. A hammer is a stick with a metal end. It is heavy to swing because the metal is at the very end even though the stick is light weight and short. Duh.

[ALI G]

This is basic physics. You are basically creating a hammer. A hammer is a stick with a metal end. It is heavy to swing because the metal is at the very end even though the stick is light weight and short. Duh.

Hey Hai Haiz....Speakingz of hammerz.....

Youz can hold my hammerz while I nailz youz girlfriend??

Boyakasha

[Yzakj]

Wow hai hai's post was pretty helpful at first, but then he had to say duh. You could just forget the trouble of cutting the shinai, and just sitting down and doing it, and then practice the footwork seperatly, but I guess cutting it is more effective.

[Soliber]

Well I have the same problem, but I just go traine outside... What you could also do, instead of training with a shinai, you could traine with a wooden wakizashi. It makes hardly any difference if you traine with a shinai or a bokuto...