How to Make a PVC Wing Chun Dummy
- 1). Cut a length of 8-inch (interior diameter) PVC pipe that's roughly your height. This will have an external diameter of anywhere from 8.6 inches to 8.9 inches, depending on the grade of pipe. Heavier-duty pipe gives greater stability.
- 2). Put ballast in the bottom. This can be a large (8-inch diameter) coffee can full of sand and gravel.
- 3). Mark the holes in the PVC for the limbs you're going to use. They should be at shoulder, forearm, waist, and knee heights, give or take a few inches. The two arms facing frontward should have their points be about 8 inches apart on 11-inch dowels. This means the dowel holes have to be about 2 inches apart on the PVC.
- 4). Cut the holes out of the PVC trunk. A 1-inch spade bit on a power drill will usually do this.
- 5). Make your wooden limbs out of hardwood. They should be about 2 inches to 3 inches in diameter and taper to conic points and be about 11 inches to 12 inches long. The leg is usually made of a tapered joint to give the knee its bend. Taper down the ends that attach to the trunk to fit them into the holes you cut earlier.
- 6). Attach the limbs to the trunk of the dummy.
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