Hi! Patrick Fulop here at Effective Martial Arts HQ, and quick video for you guys today:
How to Fill your Grappling Dummy featuring the brand new Grappling SMARTY! Get yours right now
at GrapplingSMARTY.com, it's the absolute best grappling dummy ever created because it isn't
a grappling stance! It could be seated, it could be supine it could be in turtle, you can practice
bottom, you can practice top, you can practice guard, you can practice pin escapes, turtle
attacks, you can even do wrestling, and there's a bunch of fitness exercises that you can do with it
as well! So if you are purchasing the grappling smarty unfilled it comes in a little package like
this, so if you are local here in the west island of montreal you can come and it's free local
pickup or local delivery if you grab it pre-filled but because of the weight, you'll need about 50
pounds of fabric and we recommend also about two pounds of poly fill (this is polyester filling).
If you want to ship it you could definitely order it and ship it pre-filled but you're paying for
the weight of being shipped, so the size and the weight so we do offer free international
shipping on the unfilled version. So if you want to save, you can get used clothing or used bed
sheets usually at your local thrift store and they sell the stuff really cheap because the stuff that
doesn't sell they get a lot of used stuff given to them and they want to sell it for a profit,
but there's a lot of stuff that's just not usable and they throw that stuff away. So if you contact
them and they will sell you fabric used clothing, used bed sheets by the pound or by the kilogram,
so you want to go ahead and do that if you want to save. It'll take you about an hour
to fill one Grappling SMARTY, an hour to an hour and 15 minutes and what you want to do
basically is once you take it out of its package it's going to look like this you're going to want
to start by filling the feet and ankles with poly fill, like so, so it's a very expansive
material it's very lightweight, and the reason you want to fill the feet with it especially
is because you don't want the feet to fall down when it's in the supine position. You want the
feet to be upright and facing you to be like a realistic grappling opponent and also the hands
and all the way a little bit past the wrist fill that with poly fill as well. It'll make the hands
a bit lighter so they don't fall down in the supine position... And then you want to pursue
the rest of the limbs with fabric, now the trick is you really want to pack the stuff tightly as
you progress you really want to work it in there, and really compact the fabric as much as possible.
You want to use a mix of stuffing by pulling on the fabric and stuffing with your other hand
and hitting from the outside so you can press the fabric even more as well as massaging,
so you'll massage the fabric into each limb especially. And then when you get to the hips,
the hip area is the most challenging as well the shoulder area so you really want to spend some
time on that and really get in between the skin and the existing fabric that's there to stuff it
as much as possible. So you work your way up the legs to the hips up the arms to the shoulders,
spend a lot of time working those joints and compacting them optimally. Head all the way to
the neck and when you get to the body, you can be a little bit more liberal into stuffing the fabric
in there and just kind of put it in there, and then it'll compact on its own going to the sides
over here. And then when you finish, you want to go all the way around, in between the skin and
the existing fabric to put as much fabric as you can in there. So this is a 50-pound bag of fabric,
you'll most likely need about 45, but it's good to have that little five-pound buffer as well. When
you're done, you want to throw the SMARTY around, step on it, hit it everywhere, hulk smash it,
and that'll most likely compress the fabric a little bit more. It will most likely compress
a little bit over time as you practice with it as well, so that's why it's good to keep a little bit
of extra fabric. But if you want to do this all this in one shot, move it around, compress it,
and then stuff it again with a little bit more fabric. Get as much in there as you can and if
you do it right, you should have trouble closing the zipper at the end. It should be challenging to
close the zipper and you're going to go ahead and close it by applying pressure from both sides...
A little trick of the trade as well is you want to have that tape on the back of the zipper
to make sure that the fabric and the polyester doesn't stick to the velcro. So make sure
that the velcro is covered before you go ahead and fill it and once you're done you close it and then
you will be able to enjoy your Grappling SMARTY! Now before we wrap this up, I want to show you
guys what the finished product should look like for quality control. So starting from
the extremities, all the way to the body. So first off, the foot, the toes, you want the toes to be
nice and puffy as well as the heel and the entire foot. As we said, the foot ankle, until a bit less
than halfway up the shin, should be filled with poly fill and the rest with recycled fabric. So
the changing point is about here and you really want the poly fill to be tightly packed into the
foot so it's nice and puffy. So you got to kind of get your fingers into the tip of the toes as
well as tip of the heel as you're filling it up and don't progress past the leg if your
foot is not satisfactory. So you really want to be methodical in your filling process,
then once you switch to fabric you're going to stuff it in there as well tightly so it
also compresses the poly fill and you want to pay special attention to the shin nice and tight, and
at the knee joint, here, really important you want the knee to be tightly packed so that it holds
a roughly 90-degree angle at rest. So when you push it down it pops right up and this is going
to be important for the SMARTY to be in a correct supine position especially for grip fighting so
if you're fighting a supine opponent you want the feet pointing relatively at your center of mass
so you can do your grip fighting like so. And what happens if you don't fill the knee enough,
the foot is going to kind of fall down like this. Same thing goes as well you could fill the entire
thing with fabric but what happens then is that increases the weight of the foot and in that case,
it also his resting position is going to be more like this, so it's not absolutely wrong,
but it's going to be more realistic if you get that upward foot position in the supine position.
Same thing goes so knee nice and tight, thigh nice and tight, then moving on to the upper body
so hand, same thing as the toes, you want it to be nice and puffy as well. It's a little bit easier
to fill because there's no corners to go around, it's just one big ball, so you want to stuff that
polyfill in there until it puffs out nicely. Poly fill up until a bit past the wrist, the rest is
going to be fabric then you also want the fabric to be nice and tightly packed around the elbow
so that it also maintains its roughly 90 degree shape angle. And then tightly into the arms,
and i'm going to flip it around and the next step you're going to look at its buttocks, so you want
it to have a bubble butt, okay so you want to really tightly pack the hips as well as the crotch
area everywhere over here. And it's gonna be the same thing at the shoulder joint area over here,
so you want the shoulder to be nice and filled out as well, especially in that little corner over
here so that it'll support the arm and it's going to make the arms stay in a realistic position as
well, a sound defensive position. And then you want to look at the back of the neck as well you
don't want any empty spots over here, you want the head to be nice and tightly filled as well,
no empty spots. And then the body, you want it to be nice and tightly packed so you want
to really stuff as much fabric in there as you can so it'll have a nice consistency
and that's how you fill your Grappling SMARTY so that it meets our quality standards!
So um definitely purchase it pre-filled if you don't mind the shipping cost,
it's definitely it'll save you the trouble of having to look for fabric and then stuffing it
yourself, it does take time. But if you want to save, you could definitely do it on your own as
well so this stuff, fabric, is thrown away by the ton every day, so people get rid of their used
clothes and used bed sheets so you can just go ahead and recuperate that for pennies and you will
be able to stuff your Grappling SMARTY with it! So we're really excited guys, this is a new
project the Grappling SMARTY, GapplingSMARTY.com, we've got a brand new Shopify store going on,
and we're really striving to offer you the tip top quality as possible, for the best possible
price as well. This is reinforced, so super heavy duty vinyl with four-ply polyester-nylon thread
and double-reinforced stitching. So we made it as strong as possible.
The fabric is completely waterproof, so you can clean it and you can share it so it's hygienic
if you want to share it with other people if you have a gym you have a school you want to have that
in your school you just disinfect between sessions and different people can practice with it safely.
And that's it guys, we'll be happy to fill it for you if you want,
we have quite a bit of experience. Benefit from this video if you want to fill it yourself,
and either way, we're looking forward to fulfilling your order on GrapplingSMARTY.com,
you'll see this is the without a doubt the best grappling dummy ever created because it's the
only one that's actually in a grappling stance! It's got the knees close to the chest in a proper
guard, elbows in front of the body, so you can really do anything that you want with it and
practice realistically. Most dummies just lie flat like a day-one white belt... you don't want that,
you want a grappling dummy that's actually in a grappling position and having practiced with it,
I can tell you that just for drilling techniques, muscle memory, and just
putting in the reps, this is better than most white belt human training partners.
So signing off, Patrick Fulop here at Effective Martial Arts HQ in Pointe-Claire,
West Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, thank you very much for watching, practice well!