Hey Bill,
Sorry I didn’t get a real chance to talk with you the other night.
It’s good to put a face with the name though.
I’m sure there’ll be a next time
J
Jeff,
I just happened to be in the neighborhood, and wanted to check out what you guys were up to. Sorry I had to leave early. I had a few time senstive things to do.
And yes, there will definitely be a next time. 
Originally posted by Jeff Bussey
Anyone else with a PVC dummy experience?
I don’t mind cheap at all, but not at the expense of the feel of the dummy when going through the form.
If you add weights or sand or whatever to the body, wouldn’t the distribution of the weight (at the bottom) give you a different feel?
I have a Carina-made PVC dummy (made to my specs) partly because I have no indoor space for it. IMHO, there are 2 drawbacks to a stock PVC dummy vs a wooden one (assuming both are made to the same specs), both because it’s hollow:
- it’s too light
- the low fundamental modes tend to get excited when you hit the PVC body, making it vibrate sort of like a woodwind instrument
Both problems are alleviated when you add weight to strategic locations. The weight has to be distributed along the length of the body and not just concentrated at the bottom, otherwise it will be unbalanced (bottom heavy).
With proper tuning (pun intentional), a PVC dummy can be made to feel like a good wooden dummy (90+%) at less than half the cost (plus you save a few trees). But aesthetically, it won’t look like a fine piece of furniture, whereas a well-made wooden dummy would.
My PVC dummy never made any notes, but I understand the phenomenon of which you speak.
Regardless of if you get PVC or wood, I recommend you getting some pads for the body. Full power punches to PVC or wood suck, and padding will make it hurt less. Don’t spend like $25 on one of those premade pads, tho. At Wal-Mart you can get a certain kind of shelf paper that is about 1/8" thick that is a dense padding. Wrap that around the “head” of the body 2 or 3 times and you have a perfect pad. Seriously. You can rock it full power and it feels awesome. It’s a very stiff pad, so it isn’t all soft or anything. It feels about like hitting a good quality focus mitt. Here’s a pic of what I’m talking about:
KJ’s special dummy specs
KJ,
Do you mind sharing your personalize dummy specs with me/us? I am curious as what kinda changes do people made/modified out in the WC dummy world.
-thanx !!!
Hi funsau,
If you will PM me your email address, I’ll be glad to oblige.
Regards,
- Kathy Jo
I would NOT put pads on the dummy.
We never had any pads on the dummy either but lately I put a pad around the middle so that in our section three of the summy, we can do a low midsection punch, otherwise people were doing a low palm instead because it didn’t hurt as much. According to Wang Kiu, in one of the later sections of the dummy (his section 9, double grab and kick) a low sweep with the shin against the leg was converted to a kick through the heart type of movement on the dummy because the sweep was painful. The downside is that those Wing Chun people would have had weaker shins that would get smashed up by the Thais. Don’t know if any of that is true, just another story.
Ray
I’ve found it somewhere in net
Nice wooden dummy comercial .
although the arms are realy ugly. Do you knowwhat the body is made out of?
If you are looking to get a low cost dummy or make one your self, there are two earas to look at.
Pvc is the easiest to make.
But the SBC pole yards are about the cheapest. the pole yards are open to the public on certin days of the month. Thay sell $1.00 per every 6’. the old pine poles work just fine for dummy bodys.
If you make a stand out of 4x4, local supper hardware stores. you can make a nice dummy and stand for around $90.00 and somewhere around 6 hours of work.
C.A.G.
the dummy body from comercial is propably made from PVC (I think)
I don’t like those arms, too
but if someone is looking for low cost dummy - why not?
mine dummy is beauty 
Ha! those two pictures are realy nice. I thought I was the only one makeing those.
I call mine mimmi mook jongs. Ive been makeing that stile for around 16 years.
I will post a picture,as soon as I can figure out how too.
If you e-mail me I can send pictures that way.
curtgeorge@wowway.com
use this server to host pictures for free recommended and easy in use 
Thanks for the info.
I just was woundering Why would anyone want to pad a dummy?
Isnt the hole idea behind a mook jong, CONTROL?
a mook jong isnt a punching bag.Why turn it into one??
ANY and all thoughts on this topic are welcome. (even if thay are WRONG!) I can always agree to dis-agree.
I would realy like to understand different schools of thought on this topic.
Thanks in Advance.