Indagator
Blue Belt
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2010
- Messages
- 244
- Reaction score
- 7
Oops I inadvertently breached a rule by posting that article. Sorry, guys.
As for the dimensions, mine is actually dimensionally incorrect as I made it myself using chain from the hardware store with two heavy "bomb" sinkers from a fishing specialist store as the weights at the ends - the tapered shape is there but it is more of a squared-off teardrop shape than a tapering hexagon.
Somebody I train with has a proper one which was obtained from a martial arts supplier that carries/manufactures some pretty intense hardware. Most of the stuff the supplier will not sell without evidence of a current martial arts license or registration of some sort AFAIK.
For practice we normally just use a rope with knots in the ends, although sometimes at training we do use the real deal in order to experience the different sensations (both giving and receiving).
I still remember how surprised I was the first time I was granted a taste of the painful capabilities of a mere knotted rope!
As for the dimensions, mine is actually dimensionally incorrect as I made it myself using chain from the hardware store with two heavy "bomb" sinkers from a fishing specialist store as the weights at the ends - the tapered shape is there but it is more of a squared-off teardrop shape than a tapering hexagon.
Somebody I train with has a proper one which was obtained from a martial arts supplier that carries/manufactures some pretty intense hardware. Most of the stuff the supplier will not sell without evidence of a current martial arts license or registration of some sort AFAIK.
For practice we normally just use a rope with knots in the ends, although sometimes at training we do use the real deal in order to experience the different sensations (both giving and receiving).
I still remember how surprised I was the first time I was granted a taste of the painful capabilities of a mere knotted rope!