https:\/\/www.karatetips.com\/post\/how-to-make-a-makiwara.aspx<\/a><\/p>\nThen a few month’s later during a heavy punching session, it split due to the continual impact.<\/p>\n
Bummer.<\/i><\/p>\n
I built a second one and this time it lasted about 9 months before it started to split again in the exact same spot. Yep, that same spot on the shaft about 12 inches above the ground.<\/p>\n
Rather than punch it until it snapped in half (although that would have been extremely gratifying in the short term), I decided to employ some maturity and wisdom, and pull it out and set it aside until a later date.<\/p>\n
That date came last weekend – 3.5 years later!<\/p>\n
I opted to fix it by drilling a hole through the shaft close to the top of the split. I then poked a 3\/8 inch bolt through and added a couple of big washers; one on either side. I then popped a nut on the back and tightened that sucker up super tight.<\/p>\n
It’s not pretty… but it was a simple and practical solution.<\/p>\n
It’s now battle worn with the scars to prove it.<\/p>\n
The irony is that I procrastinated for 3.5 years about what to do with it. And it only took 2 minutes to fix…<\/p>\n
I’m so frustrated I just want to hit something….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Five years ago I showed how to build a makiwara from scratch for less than $50 and in about 4 hours or less. You can read that original article here: https:\/\/www.karatetips.com\/post\/how-to-make-a-makiwara.aspx Then a few month’s later during a heavy punching session, it split due to the continual impact. Bummer. I built a second one and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}