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Trying To Keep It Real

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I have to let my right-brain into it to be me, sort of random play and develop ideas, art-like. One African traditional dance move added to each of several dynamic full body kettlebell drills.

In 2007 I started using 46-50kg kettlebells I made from AKC kb's. AKC used them with world champions and US top kbsport athletes, and then somebody made even heavier ones by using depleted uranium instead of lead. KB heavy swings are reverse hypers.

In 2008, I added another dimension to getting down with kettlebells. I developed kb drills based on squat, lunge, bulgarian split, side squat, using one-arm long cycle. I adhered to Valery Federenko's ideals of no chickenwing racks, ruling out squat rack, and holding overhead lockouts to a short duration. No chickenwing rack or extended overheads or extended static hangs.

In 2009, I added one African dance move to each of those deep moves. This is what I mean by African kettlebells. I added things like Maasai jump, Zulu kick, and a few others, one African move per kettlebell drill. I do African sekous hip movements as mobility work, too.

So far I have not found African kettlebells per se, having looked for Russian/Cuban girya/giravik/girevoy in Angola web pages. I do not see, but I imagine, an Angolan Capoeira kb getup, versus a Turkish getup.

There is a lot of resisting rotation called for by all of these deeper exercises including heavy swing.

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