Hey people,

I wonder if some of you use training dummies as a tool to sharpen your takedown submission skills?

I'm back at my parents house for half a year, and have job in the evenings + we have quite a piece of grass in the garden
so what I have in mind is buying a training dummy to train allot of no-gi judo throws and subs, and all kinds of stuff.

but I wonder what kind of dummy I should buy, there are the:
-traditional +-40kg wrestling dummies
-speed dummy http://www.suples.com/speed-dummies/
-the jiu jitsu dummy, http://www.grapplingdummy.net/ or the bubba variation http://www.bubbadummy.com/html/video_demonstration.html

speed dummy allows for more reps, but perhaps you sucseed to easily, cause of the leightweighness of it, and it has no legs, so no guard play.
jiu jitsu dummy can''t be used for throws I guess, as it doesn't seem able to stand upright.
bubba seems at least capable of stretching its legs and arms, but has it the stiffness to stand upright, while leaning only with the upper body
+ how durable is it, when you kata-guruma/uchi mata/slamm it 100 times a day
traditonal may hurt my lower back a bit more, but seems to be the most all around training tool.

I want to make a well thought choice as they cost at least €500.- a piece
I'm the kind of guy that wants to smash it around for more than an hour every day, the whole summer.

so basicly any kind of personal experience or idea or comment, or valuable link is warmly welcomed.


Thanks allot in advance

Instead of spending money on dummies what you should do is find a local gym that has bjj, or judo, or whatever martial art that you want to learn. With different people at the gym your learning curve will be greater, and in turn you'll have a higher chance of progressing. If you don't want a gym then find a partner that shares your interest, then you can buy mats.

sure, that is what I did for the last 2 years, but what I tried to say in my original post is that I'm working in the afternoon and evening,
which causes the problem that I don't have time to visit the gym during the training hours.
however I don't want to not train and I haven't any training partners in the area that I could invite over at my home and train with,
perhaps my explanations wasn't too clear about that point, but yea for sure human vs human is much better than human vs doll .
but it offers some oportunities to add new skills to your arsenal, you can relax on the grass while watching your intrucitional dvd on your phone,
followed by getting trough the moves as many times as you need to get it in your muscle memory, and you can repeat them all the next day I guess.