How to make a wall makiwara with your own hands

The study of martial arts is an integral part of many people's lives. Someone is engaged in this simply as a hobby, assigning to classes a couple of evenings a week. And someone, being a professional athlete, pays all his time and energy. But regardless of whether it is a hobby or a lifestyle, if a person is engaged in combat sports seriously, he knows how important it is to again and again sharpen his skills and have prepared shock surfaces.

The best assistant for this is makiwara (a special device for working out strokes), which is in any gym. But what if the opportunity to attend the gym for some reason is temporarily absent, but do you need to train? For this, you can and should make makiwara itself. How? The answer to this question you will find in this article - in it we will consider how makivara is made by oneself.

First of all, it should be said that there are generally 2 kinds of makiwara: pendant and standing.

As a self-made portable, pendant uses great success. Or rather, its variety - makiwara wall. This device can be hung on a wall in the room or on a tree or a pole on the street.

What is needed to make a good makiwara, made by own hands:

• Polyurethane (thickness from 5 to 10 mm). It can be replaced by a normal tourist foam (mat of foam material). This is the material for shock absorption.
• Imitation leather or burlap sacking. It is better to have the material with a margin.
• Elastic bands (width from 3 to 5 cm) or ropes for fastening (to a tree or a pole).
• Velcro for fastening (to a tree or a pole).
• 4-8 screws (fastening to the wall).
• Screwdriver.

Manufacturing process

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

Of the polyurethane (or carpet), plates are cut in size somewhere 20-25 by 35-40 cm. You can make each section of two or three plates. It depends both on the level of your preparation, and on the thickness of the shock absorber.

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

To the lower and upper edges are sewn gum (to which the edges are sewn velcro) or ropes, with which makivara will be fixed. This option is great for fastening to a tree or a pole.

If the wall is used as a support, simply screw it with screws (if necessary, you can nail the plugs) in the right place. There you have makiwara, created by your own hands!

Another way to make a portable makewara is as follows: go to a pet store and buy a cat's scratch. Then you get two rubber bands with hooks at the ends (you can make them yourself) in a store of household goods and connect the entire structure together. It turns out a good projectile, which can be hung on a tree or pillar.

There is another way! You can wrap a small board with hemp (under it you can put something for softness). Then figure out a suitable mount, and the makiwara is made by yourself.

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

A good ready-made portable option is makiwara Badyuka-Shilova. This is a portable version of the patented makivara Kamerton Shilova, which many professionals and martial artists are considered the best.

Usually it is called MBSH, or simply makiwara Baduk. It's more difficult to make it with your own hands than the ones we discussed above. But there is a possibility. You just need to know the principle of its work and find the right materials.

Still it is worth remembering that a good and high quality makiwara, collected by your own hands at home, can replace the shells available in the gym and will not lose the precious time that can be given to training. Constant practice will make your blow technical, strong and punchy.