does any of you train with kettlebells?

[PM]

when i was in China this year, many of the old Hung Kyun masters talked about importance of training with "stone locks" (sek so) or "wooden ears" (muk yi, like those used by Hap Ga/white crane/lama paai).

as sek so or muk yi are hard to get and not easy to make,
i have currently incorporated some basic drills with a similar equipment, ie. with kettlebells, in my personal training and teaching, and i really love it. my question is: does anybody trains with sek so/muk yi/kettlebells? what drills do you train? pros/contras? ...?

all the best

[Asmo]

Not really helpful, but the 'old' http://southernkungfu.forumco.com/ forum returns quite a few hits on 'kettle'. Although some excercises are mentioned, most seem to come from kettlebell usage instead of CMA.

http://southernkungfu.forumco.com/topic ... kettle.asp

[Tholf]

[banditshaw]

Sounds cool Tholf. I'm thinking of getting some kettleballs actually and your exercise sounds good. It would really cool if you could film it

Check out these training methods I found on the tube.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1WM6RUQxd4
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlVUcNQIhE
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddnosDhAQos[/youtube]

[Asmo]

Cool find banditshaw

[Tholf]

[Tholf]

Here's an extra hardcore version of the hip thrust action I described - this guy has added a rubber band to make it even harder.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NvBCvHNX4[/youtube]

[mok]

[Asmo]

[eomonroe00]

i have been training with gentlemen who uses empty kegs and sandbags, besides the obvious they work finger, hand, grip, wrist, forearm strength in ridiculous ways, almost every punch and technique culminates in the hand, wrist, what good is strong hip torque, and huge biceps, if your gonna screw up your wrist at the end of the technique,

check out the video, i doubt you will be disapointed
http://www.kegconditioning.blogspot.com/

http://www.basketballstrength.blogspot.com/
(video on the right)

[jow yeroc]

[Tholf]

[jow yeroc]

[Tholf]

[PM]

stone locks (sek so) - Chinese kettlebells

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ApGG9_TuI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5Lr-rTWdg&NR=1[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2oBX7yX9w[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Fo-CpZCeA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLij_VMbKbo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIhuU0-fg0[/youtube]

and watch this, guys

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yClEnTE8DEE[/youtube]