Length of Dummy arms?

[gnugear]

What's the correct length?

Traditionally I think it's supposed to be 11", but I think that measurement was taken from Yip Man's dummy and he was only 5'2"

I've seen other measurements up to 12"

What about someone like me (5'8")?

[yuanfen]

My custom made one is about 11 inches away from the dummy body... about the length of my forearm.

I have another longer arm for other purposes that I can substitute at times-

[IronFist]

Mine are 24" total. 12" of arm and 12" of shank through the body. I'm 5'9" or 5'10", but this is pretty much the standard size. A lot of people do make 11" ones though, but I think I like 12 better (although I've never used 11" ones before).

IronFist

[gnugear]

Originally posted by yuanfen
My custom made one is about 11 inches away from the dummy body... about the length of my forearm.

I have another longer arm for other purposes that I can substitute at times-

How tall are you?

I'm 5'8". My dummy has 11" arms too.

[fantom]

Its one of those amazing things about the human body, everybody has approximately the same length forarm.
I am 6'3" (193cm) - my forarm is ~12" (29 cm) from wrist to elbow, exactly the same size as my wooden dummy arms.
Check out a person who is shorter or taller than yourself, your forarms will be approxiamely the same size.
So by this all dummies should have 12" arms

Cheers

[yuanfen]

I think that forearm lengths vary. In any case my custom one
has 11 inch arms sticking out from the dummy and my older one is a HK Koo Sang dummy- which has 12 inch arms. He doesnt make dummies any more. many of his standard ones were 12 inch ones.