| I work with a lot of students that study martial | | | | structure that won't allow the tire to fit over the |
| arts on their own at home. Many follow my video | | | | top. Street light poles and telephone poles are |
| training series, while others use our online dojo to | | | | great if you live in an area that offers such a |
| add more value to their own fitness martial arts | | | | freedom. |
| program. Some of these home study martial | | | | These tire dummies are amazing. Here are just a |
| artists have their own training strategies and are | | | | few of the benefits: |
| just looking for an additional edge to add more | | | | * You can attack them with shoes on - for a |
| value to their own efforts. These students are all | | | | more realistic training practice |
| in need of training gear, ideas, tips, tools - you | | | | * You can hit them with sticks and wooden |
| name it. Anything that will help them to improve | | | | swords without fear of damaging the dummy |
| their martial arts skills while training at home. | | | | * You can use them for protection against |
| Whether you want to save money or just add | | | | dangerous surfaces in your training area |
| some unique training tools to your home dojo, the | | | | * They take up some of the shock and different |
| best multi-use (discount, do it yourself) martial | | | | tire styles offer various levels of flexibility |
| arts training item to date are TIRES. | | | | * Tie them up for swinging targets |
| Why? Because there are so many things you can | | | | With some creativity you can create a very |
| do with tires. Here are a few ways to put them | | | | realistic training dummy. You can even place |
| to use: | | | | wooden poles through the tires to resemble limbs |
| TIRE MAN DUMMY | | | | and for something that is closer to a Wing Chun |
| Get yourself a bunch of car tires and stack them | | | | Dummy. |
| up on top of each other. You will want between | | | | You can usually pick up tires for FREE at a local |
| 5-10 for each stack that you make. Just stacking | | | | tire shop. We were able to gather a few truck |
| them up will already give you a great punching | | | | loads of tires in only a day for our martial arts |
| and kicking tool. Because the tires are made of a | | | | camp in California. We used them for paintball |
| very hard rubber, they can take a lot of beating | | | | obstacles, fitness tools for the martial arts training |
| with little or no wear and tear. | | | | course and stunt protection as well as training |
| If you want to keep the tire stack from falling | | | | dummies. |
| over, you can devise a way to keep them on top | | | | Whether you hang them, half burry them, wrap |
| of each other. One simple way is to just put | | | | them around trees or stack them up to knock |
| them on top of a pole type device - for example, | | | | over - tires of various sizes can offer a world of |
| take one tire and fill it with cement, in the middle | | | | amazing training possibilities. Take a look the areas |
| of the cement place a wooden or metal pole. | | | | where you have the option of training in and |
| Then, simply stack the tires up over the pole. | | | | consider what you can do to improve your home |
| Another way to keep them together would be to | | | | dojo. |
| drill holes in the rim of each tire and then thread | | | | Though making your own tire man dummy will |
| long bolts or tie them up. If you cut through the | | | | cover most of your training, you can consider |
| tire (breaking the circle), you can pull it open and | | | | other ways to put them to good use. |
| wrap it around a solid beam, tree or other | | | | |