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**Aaron757** · 10-20-2005, 07:00 AM

Though I should warn you - those metal-framed hitty dummies (uchikomidai) - are pretty expensive. Most that I've seen in catalogs or in stores go for several hundred dollars, well over what it costs for a dirt cheap set of bogu.

I just got the 2002 Moribudo catalog in the mail last week, and they have this neat uchikomidai which has not one, but two variable height positions to hold the shinai, and is designed for people practicing nidan-waza. Very pricey.

I'd say - either try making your own (it's not that hard - a friend of mine tried), or get a real human opponent as a dummy.

10-20-2005, 07:00 AM	#3
Aaron757 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Though I should warn you - those metal-framed hitty dummies (uchikomidai) - are pretty expensive. Most that I've seen in catalogs or in stores go for several hundred dollars, well over what it costs for a dirt cheap set of bogu. I just got the 2002 Moribudo catalog in the mail last week, and they have this neat uchikomidai which has not one, but two variable height positions to hold the shinai, and is designed for people practicing nidan-waza. Very pricey. I'd say - either try making your own (it's not that hard - a friend of mine tried), or get a real human opponent as a dummy.
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