Martial arts, hammer weight
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:37 pm
Hi everyone,
new to SG here...at least new user that is.
discovered the site a while back (2 years ago), and clubbell n kettlebells too, never got round to it. I had made some clubs though, by filling toy baseball bats made out of plastic with cement. They weighed about 7 pounds.
I lost interest and motivation for a while in training last year, and got grossly out of shape. I made a full turnaround last December.
Now that I'm determined to regain my strength, I feel my eyes have been opened to new possibilities in strength training, having found SG...
For years and years I had been searching for something that could aid me in both strength and cardio conditioning and wouldnt make me sluggish in my martial arts. Here i think I've finally found the answer to my prayers. Having tried some weapons training (sword), the feeling is quite similar, only that I'm using a much heavier weapon now!
A few Q's:
One question is on hammer weighing; my hammer feels like it weighs a ton more than the 7LB cement clubs i made before. It's not clearly printed, but the head of the hammer says either 16 or 6 LB. It sure feels like 16lbs. I doubt it is 6LB but I want to make sure. Would the following weighing method be legit: getting on a person scale with and without a hammer, recording both and taking the difference between the two as the weight of the hammer? Or is that too inaccurate? That's what i did with the cement ones...
I had actually bought the hammer as a prop for a short film i made last year, I remember selecting the biggest and heaviest hammer the tool shop had.
Also, are there any people here who have adapted their hammer to any martial arts weapons forms?
I've found these weapons training forms on the internet with double handed weapons that might work with a sledgehammer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ahRtsx-4I
Someone training with a double headed axe, though i think it's a demo weapon he's using there. There's another one with double sword, can't find the link now.
also on e-bay you can find the following DVD
MiZong HunYuan Double Hammer VCD(DVD) (search for it or ask me for the link, don't want to be misinterpreted as an ebay spammer). Though that is a form with two short, heavy hammers, one in each hand. They look more like huge maracas than hammers if you ask me, but I guess they would function as rib smashers any day...
Also the Shaolin Damo stick is a two handed weapon, as is the double handed sword or General Quan sword.
If anyone has any info, links, videos of your performance doing a weapons set with a hammer etc. please let me know.
Martin
new to SG here...at least new user that is.
discovered the site a while back (2 years ago), and clubbell n kettlebells too, never got round to it. I had made some clubs though, by filling toy baseball bats made out of plastic with cement. They weighed about 7 pounds.
I lost interest and motivation for a while in training last year, and got grossly out of shape. I made a full turnaround last December.
Now that I'm determined to regain my strength, I feel my eyes have been opened to new possibilities in strength training, having found SG...
For years and years I had been searching for something that could aid me in both strength and cardio conditioning and wouldnt make me sluggish in my martial arts. Here i think I've finally found the answer to my prayers. Having tried some weapons training (sword), the feeling is quite similar, only that I'm using a much heavier weapon now!
A few Q's:
One question is on hammer weighing; my hammer feels like it weighs a ton more than the 7LB cement clubs i made before. It's not clearly printed, but the head of the hammer says either 16 or 6 LB. It sure feels like 16lbs. I doubt it is 6LB but I want to make sure. Would the following weighing method be legit: getting on a person scale with and without a hammer, recording both and taking the difference between the two as the weight of the hammer? Or is that too inaccurate? That's what i did with the cement ones...
I had actually bought the hammer as a prop for a short film i made last year, I remember selecting the biggest and heaviest hammer the tool shop had.
Also, are there any people here who have adapted their hammer to any martial arts weapons forms?
I've found these weapons training forms on the internet with double handed weapons that might work with a sledgehammer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ahRtsx-4I
Someone training with a double headed axe, though i think it's a demo weapon he's using there. There's another one with double sword, can't find the link now.
also on e-bay you can find the following DVD
MiZong HunYuan Double Hammer VCD(DVD) (search for it or ask me for the link, don't want to be misinterpreted as an ebay spammer). Though that is a form with two short, heavy hammers, one in each hand. They look more like huge maracas than hammers if you ask me, but I guess they would function as rib smashers any day...
Also the Shaolin Damo stick is a two handed weapon, as is the double handed sword or General Quan sword.
If anyone has any info, links, videos of your performance doing a weapons set with a hammer etc. please let me know.
Martin