New Pell Design
Jul 22, 2007 21:11:49 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2007 21:11:49 GMT
I modified my pell about six months ago to better facilitate head and leg strikes. I have found a great deal of success in using it. I have found that a pell of this hight and style good for practicing to fight shieldmen who will have the very limited areas open at any one time. I am particularly interested in practicing head/leg combinations. The key to successful attacks is misdirection. I practice successive high attack to open up a low attack, or vise versa... Also successive left attacks to open up right attacks, or vice versa... And finally high left to open up low right, or vise versa. Put another way, I am practicing drawing my opponents defenses to one quadrant so I can attack another.
This pell has as its backbone a flowerpot holder. It sort of resembles a small hangman's gallows. It has a four legged base that extends about foot in an "x" shape on the floor. Over that I have placed a tire to weigh it down. On top of that I have placed another tire against the upright pole to act as a leg target. At the top where the flowerpot would normally be suspended, I have hung a tire that approximates the head. The very top of the tire is 5'5" which is the hight of a 5'10" man when he is crouching in a ready guard. I have also passed a broomstick through the sidewall of the tire giving me and additional head target hight up to 6'6".
One of my problems with earlier pell designs was that the base was not secure enough. The higher up I hit my target the more prone the pell was to tipping over. This gallows design can probably be put together very cheaply with copper plumbing pipes.
Here is a picture:
Here is a link to the webpage:
mysite.verizon.net/tsafa1/swordreview.htm
This pell has as its backbone a flowerpot holder. It sort of resembles a small hangman's gallows. It has a four legged base that extends about foot in an "x" shape on the floor. Over that I have placed a tire to weigh it down. On top of that I have placed another tire against the upright pole to act as a leg target. At the top where the flowerpot would normally be suspended, I have hung a tire that approximates the head. The very top of the tire is 5'5" which is the hight of a 5'10" man when he is crouching in a ready guard. I have also passed a broomstick through the sidewall of the tire giving me and additional head target hight up to 6'6".
One of my problems with earlier pell designs was that the base was not secure enough. The higher up I hit my target the more prone the pell was to tipping over. This gallows design can probably be put together very cheaply with copper plumbing pipes.
Here is a picture:
Here is a link to the webpage:
mysite.verizon.net/tsafa1/swordreview.htm