At Home Suburi Shinai

[ChaShu]

Hello All! It's been a few days now since I've been off from work, so I've had time to construct myself a short suburi shinai for home use that I can use with both hands and not touch the ceiling. I've attached a picture of it here (and I hope the attachment works). As soon as I figure out how to attach pictures without exceeding my 10kb limit on attachments, I'll write a step by step.

[dwez]

How much does that little fella weigh?

[bobdonny]

looks like the correct lenght... to keep the balance a bit more i take off 4inches from the base and from the tsuka (and hence add it to the top), it looks a bit better too, i'll try to post a pic later.

One of the shinai weights work well with that.

[ChaShu]

How much does that little fella weigh?

Not exactly sure, but I used a carriage bolt with three nuts screwed in as a sakigomu to give it more tip weight to simulate a full sized shinai. I may add more weight on the tip as well somehow. BTW, anyone know how to put pictures straight into the posts?

[David]

I've never tried it on this forum, but usually you need to first get the image hosted on a site like PhotoBucket, then post the image link that they provide in an [IMG][/IMG] tag.

[tilt]

Hello All! It's been a few days now since I've been off from work, so I've had time to construct myself a short suburi shinai for home use that I can use with both hands and not touch the ceiling. I've attached a picture of it here (and I hope the attachment works). As soon as I figure out how to attach pictures without exceeding my 10kb limit on attachments, I'll write a step by step.

That's Dinky

[Kuma]

Quite interesting. I can't wait to see the step by step.

I'm interested to know people's opinions though: what is the difference in balance between a shorter and longer shinai of similar weight, and how does this effect training?