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Post by jimlukelkc on Dec 6, 2010 18:51:55 GMT
Do any of you use a makiwara regularly ? if so , what benefits do you find it lends ? what techniques do you practice against it etc. Or perhaps you are against the use of the makiwara? If so, why?
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Post by fujicolt on Dec 6, 2010 23:09:20 GMT
Hey Jim I was very lucky in that very early in my study a Goju Instructor taught me how to use a makiwara correctly. I have used them since. used correctly I believe that they can be useful. i have to be honest though and admit I have come to prefer a bag I was recently told on very good authority that at Takudai they have a range of makiwara along one wall. they increase in strength and everyone takes pride in progressively getting each to bend until it hits the wall with a smack. apparently very few people make it all the way to the end one I am told that a certain Richard Heselton would walk in go straight to the strongest one and whack it against the wall again and again and again
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Post by jimlukelkc on Dec 9, 2010 22:36:17 GMT
Ah Steve there are few of us left I fear, those maniacs who face the makiwara on a regular basis. I do take your point about the bag and for certain techniques I also prefer it but I does not replicate the feel of of the makiwara. it was for a time very unfashionable to use this piece of equipment and considered too "gung-ho" and of questionable benefit. I disagree on both points and although i can understand some peoples reluctance to undergo the "disfiguring" side-effects of assiduos training I feel it is an important study. I had the immense privilege many years ago of training with Morio Higoanna at the Durham Budo-sai, he is an avid advocate of the makiwara and depite being "vertically challenged" had hands like bags of walnuts!
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Post by tomobrien on Dec 14, 2010 3:07:51 GMT
I still love the makiwara. I don't hit it as hard as I used to. I'm too old & I have arthritis. I blame some of the arthritis on the makiwara because I used to abuse the use of it. I was a very angry young man I used to just smash the makiwara as hard as I could, for as long as I could. Now I use it properly & I enjoy it. Thanks, Tom
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Post by jimlukelkc on Dec 15, 2010 17:01:08 GMT
Any techniques you favour more than others Tom? and have these changed over the years ? I personally find myself doing less open hand techniques against the makiwara but definitely more tsuki
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Post by fujicolt on Dec 18, 2010 2:23:01 GMT
Ah Steve there are few of us left I fear, those maniacs who face the makiwara on a regular basis. I do take your point about the bag and for certain techniques I also prefer it but I does not replicate the feel of of the makiwara. it was for a time very unfashionable to use this piece of equipment and considered too "gung-ho" and of questionable benefit. I disagree on both points and although i can understand some peoples reluctance to undergo the "disfiguring" side-effects of assiduos training I feel it is an important study. I had the immense privilege many years ago of training with Morio Higoanna at the Durham Budo-sai, he is an avid advocate of the makiwara and depite being "vertically challenged" had hands like bags of walnuts! Have trained under Higoanna Sensei several times over the years. on one occasion (only one thank goodness) he used me to demonstrate an arm grab/elbow strike combination. his elbow strike was perfectly controlled but the arm grab was full on - felt like my arm would be crushed his grip was so powerful. i had his finger outlines on my upper forearm, in a lovely purple bruise colour, for ages afterward. this would be about 25 - 30 years ago and he was as strong as a bull. He is apparently noted for snapping Makiwaras at Dojo's he visits all around the world
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Post by guyakuzuki on Dec 27, 2010 11:54:56 GMT
I do makiwara training but in stead of using a traditional one I use a catalpa tree in our garden which has some spring to it. I cushioned the tree a little bit so my hands don't get damaged too much. I practice strikes(gyaku tsuki,choku tsuki,empi(elbows),shuto uchi,haito uchi,tetsui uchi,...)and put more emphasis on technique than hitting it full power right now.I have a heavy bag too but the mount nearly dropped on my head a while ago(I thought I had secured that bloody thing very well )so I have to fix that again . I noticed that my reaction time was stil quite ok cos the thing missed me :-)
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Post by fujicolt on Dec 27, 2010 15:23:38 GMT
did you say rude words like 'gosh' and 'darn it'. so sorry but i did chuckle - that's the kind of stuff that usually happens to Dod Watt the man could create chaos in an empty field!
Imagine having to go in work with a stitched up head and a black eye and try to explain - my punch bag did it. nice reactions though = Ippon.
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Post by guyakuzuki on Dec 27, 2010 16:59:15 GMT
did you say rude words like 'gosh' and 'darn it'. so sorry but i did chuckle - that's the kind of stuff that usually happens to Dod Watt the man could create chaos in an empty field! Imagine having to go in work with a stitched up head and a black eye and try to explain - my punch bag did it. nice reactions though = Ippon. I didn't swear Steve.I bowed deeply and said osu! after I threw the mount through the garden ,nearly over the fence Lucky for me I wasn't caught on candid camera
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Post by fujicolt on Dec 28, 2010 16:00:57 GMT
Damn! - wish you had been!
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