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Hi there all,
My BOB dummy finally arrives on Wednesday
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My BOB arrived today and I trained some of the Combatives drills on it today. I completely understand now why this is an essential piece of equipment. A standard bag is still great – especially for working the kicks and knees – but the BOB really does take the drills to a different level! I really wish I had purchased a BOB a long time ago!
Anyway I put the fleece with the dummy arms on it (as described in the above post) and it really worked. After I had worked the edge of hand, chin jab, yoke hand, slaps/cupped hand blows and elbows I tried some of my stand up clinch work and entry into throwing positions like O Soto Gari, Ippon Seio Nage and moving into wrestling takedown positions using duckunder and arm drag entries. It works a treat especially when combining Combatives striking with the stand up grappling material!
I have also developed the BOB further. On the Blog where Damien referred to “give the BOB a hand” in an earlier post I noticed that in the photo the SDC instructor had duct taped a pad to the bottom of the BOB upper body attachment. I used a Thai pad and it makes a much better knee target to train attacking the groin then that provided by the XL BOB, In addition I tied two Thai pads together and then tied them to the bottom of the “pole” that rises up from the base of the BOB. They rest just on the edge and now my BOB not only has arms but two “knees” to stamp and kick. It is an especially good reference if you put the pair of shoes you use for referencing your drop step entries and foot stomps under these “knees”. Now it almost feels like you have a real opponent to demolish with the Combatives techniques.
Sensei Ross thank you again for providing the source material. I mentioned to you when I first contacted you that I was on the edge of burning out. Now I really feel invigorated and enjoy my training.
Finally while I think the BOB can be serviceable as a ground striking dummy I actually ordered a new grappling dummy that has just become available in the UK. It is called Rodney (I have no idea why?) and is made by a company called Blitz. Here is the link – https://www.blitzsport.com/Rodney-The-Ul … ng-Partner
I am thinking I can use the BOB to hold this up to provide a humanoid target with arms and legs for working stick and blade and of course using it for throws and ground work. What do you think?
Harry
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A clear, simple and CHEAP solution. BTW, grappling dummies are $$$$.
If you can take some pictures and send them to http://www.customerservice.com I can post them on blog https://martial-arts-self-defense.blogspot.com/
If you go there now, you’ll see how Dan Neddo from Indiana put “arms” on his training dummy.
BTW, where or how did you order the BOB. We have been trying to talk to century about making it available to our training members but the issue is that they don’t ship outside the US. The last thing I want to do is create more issues for a product we will be distributing at cost as a matter of convenience.
Damian
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