We are selling handmade Wooden Dummies. These are perfect for Wing Chun and other martial arts practitioners. The Wooden Dummy teaches positioning, footwork, proper energy, and conditioning.
Until recently, you would have had to have a lot of time and money to order your own Wooden Dummy. Dummies often had to be ordered from Hong Kong or China, and the expense and wait (and weight) were often too much to bear.
Wooden Dummies are now available in the US, with many manufacturers charging outrageous prices for their dummies.
The Wing Chun Store feels that these overpriced dummies are taking advantage of earnest Wing Chun students who deserve better. That’s why we offer quality, build-to-order, hand crafted Wooden Dummies for nearly half the cost of many other sources.
Yes, the Dummy is hollow and the body is made of pine. I would like to address several understandable misconceptions about hollow Dummy bodies.
Can I break it? Won’t it wear down, especially the arm holes (squares)?
It is very durable and the body will show no signs of use even after many years. This design has been used in several schools for over 5 years.
Isn’t it too light? I thought I needed a solid body Dummy to offer the proper resistance.
The Dummy’s resistance is affected mostly by how it is mounted. A tightly mounted Dummy can offer more resistance than a solid bodied model, while still having enough “play”. To clarify: Mounting the crossmembers tightly makes the dummy feel very heavy, there is still healthy “play” from where the crossmembers run through the Dummy body.
Is the Dummy an octagon shape, then? It sounds like it will look cheap.
The dummy is planed so it is very rounded and smooth, so it does NOT have an octagon shaped exterior.
The Wooden Dummy is professionally stained and finished. Our customers have been surprised at the quality of the finish on the Dummies. One even said, “It’s a work of art!”
We want to offer practical, useful, attractive Wooden Dummies to people at reasonable prices.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Thanks for your answer Tim. I am not in the market for a dummy.
I do have some concerns on material(pine)and shaping(hollow/hectagonal) and mounting(rigidity)-
but I leave it to others who might be further inetrested to contact you.
I have to agree with everything Timothy has said about pine dummies. I don’t own one of his, but the dummy I have been using for the past 17 years is one I built myself from pine. Seeing the pics on his website, mine is constructed in almost the exact same way. In all these years I have had no trouble with it. I even made the arms and legs from pine 4 X 4. I anticipated them being too weak and eventually breaking. I just figured that as I had a little more extra cash I would purchase a set of hardwood arms from one of the commercial makers. I’ve never had to do that. Don’t think that just because the trunk is pine that it is weak or light! It still weighs plenty. Just wait until you have to pay for shipping!
