Thursday 30 July 2009




Arriving at the European Dog Brothers Camp in Bern last weekend, I quickly spotted a couple of KB`s! (...and they were not being used to hold down the tents! haha)

Quite a few of the fighters use the kettlebell, which is great!
It was a pleasure to give some advice and correct some technique as well as show progressional drills to help focus on the target areas and ensure excellent technique.

Some of the camp had not been exposed to the KB and showed interest after realising so much movement and cardio was invloved.
British, Swiss, German, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Greek, all speaking the lauguage of the Kettlebell! Brilliant!
Back from Switzerland after training and competing in the Euro Dog Brothers Gathering.


AMAG stick fighters with Guro Ben "Lonely Dog" Rittiner

Kettlbell class back to normal on Friday and Sunday, see you there!

Tuesday 21 July 2009

KBA gone live!

www.kettlebellsaberdeen.com



A huge and sincere thanks to Siva for
making it happen!

Sunday 19 July 2009

July update

Time for a July update!

The Friday class at AMAG has changed direction again we are training to a different theme. Its still sweat-filled and fuelled by determination and power.
Entertaining and challenging warm up and mobility / body weight drills precede the 2x 10min rounds where we blitz...
1. swing variations (30secs) with bag work variations of Thai kicks and knees (30 secs)
2. swing variations (30secs) with explosive push ups or squat/lunges(30secs)
Both 10 Min's rounds are very challenging and I think we were trying to figure out which was the recovery round! Nah. The swings round, the bag work round and the explosive body weight round are all performed with massive levels of energy! No recovery round this time!

The second half of the 1.5 hour class is circuits based. Teamed with a partner, we use the kettlebell, punchbags, medicine balls and jab pads for 2 min rounds. Awesome!

Sunday public class is still running, but with very low attendance. (everyone enjoying the summer obviously!) AMAG students take the chance of a second KB workout though which is ace. The class is still suitable for all and is not combat-based.
With an hour at hand, we are performing good solid mobility work before timed sets of swings (that prove to be somewhat challenging!), 1 single progressive TGU per arm (core!) and a fun timed set achieving the clean and press (single/double KB) and jumping rope, with reducing amounts of time. Feeling great for winding down the weekend!

NOTE
Sunday 26th July - 4pm class is CANCELLED

New website soon to be launched

New classes soon to be launched at Exel club in Dyce.

Thursday 9 July 2009

First moving images, oh the excitment!

My first attempt at video editing! (albeit automatic editing lol!)

Better clips to come hopfully. This clip features the Combat Kettlebells class at the Aberdeen Martial Arts Group