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question about homemade macebell's

On one of the videos the person is swinging a homemade macebell which was made out of a bowling ball. Now I know that down the road if this macebell training works for me and I am sure it will as I love this type of training I will want to buy a macebell. But for now due to a recent divorce and a shortage of cash anything home made that will work I am interested in.

I hate bowling but I have a 12 pound bowling ball so if anyone can explain to me how to convert this into a macebell for the short term I would appreciate it.

Thank you!

Neal

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Behal on January 3, 2010 at 1:24pm: http://www.reocities.com/fightraining/macgada.html

I made mine based off of this. Perfect if ever dropped it on horse stall/ cattle mats or grass/dirt. But be warned that the ball could split in half if dropped on a hard concrete surface. I used lots of gorilla glue because I already had some (plus I had made the whole a little on the bigger side), but I would definitely have gone with JB weld if I were to do ever do it again, since the gorilla glue got a bit messy.

I had to take a chisel and hammer to crack a hole big enough for the pipe, since the drill bit was not doing very much. Keep checking the size of the hole/crack, after every bash with the hammer and chisel, as going crazy and overdoing it too much may cause a 50/50 hairline split around the bowling ball.

You will quickly learn to respect this thing, and may even become addicted to swinging it. Pavel talks about how kettlebells act like they are live, the gada acts even more so. Watch your grip strength go through the roof!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chad Hammons on January 19, 2010 at 4:20pm: I made mine with a 1 1/4x6 ft iron pipe and a 15.23lb bowling ball , First I took a 1inch spade bit to the thumb hole going about half way down and after finding out that a 1 inch pipe has a 1 1/4 inch dia I took the threaded end of the pipe and stuck it into the middle of a fire I had going until i was glowing orange , It sizzled part way in so i took a few cracks with a 10 lbs sledge and knocked it the rest of the way in then JB welded the gap around the pipe Ive been using it for 9 months now and its as solid as ever even after a few throws; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bratgod on March 31, 2010 at 6:47pm: I made one yesterday using quickcrete poured into a Syntha-6 protein container. It turned out WAY too heavy for a starter mace (around 20lbs. which seems too heavy to start with for me anyway, and I am a pretty big guy). So I am making another one today (quickcrete again) this time into a smaller container; trying to get it to come out around 7.5lbs. I figure its better to get the form and muscle memory before moving to heavier sizes.

I thinks its cool that a lot of the maces used are home-brew. Some are pretty cool. Think i might take a welding class to experiment with a few new forms.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Roche on May 26, 2010 at 3:42am: I made mine by filling the rubber bladder from a #5 soccerball (it was toast so my kids didn't miss it), with quikcrete. I chose not to remove the rubber after completion. The handle is a 52" piece of fence pipe, the type used for the upper rail on chainlink fence. I cut the end of the pipe that went into the concrete and then bent out the ends to create an anchor to help securely hold the pipe in place. Then packed the handle with concrete for the heck of it.
Total weight 10.8 KG.
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Permalink Reply by girish sarma on May 27, 2010 at 1:16am: My design is by far the most primitive....I just filled the damn basketball up with mud...Put a wooden pole on it and nailed it in...It weighs about 15 kgs..not much of a looker but works really well...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Roche on May 27, 2010 at 11:59pm: I may have to your simplified version a try... maybe commandeer my wifes swiss ball and try for one of those 70#s I keep reading about. ;-); ▶ Reply to This