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What gives? First, kettlebells were the working man's Olympic lifts, dispensing with the need for coaching. Then the snatch was too technical and the variety of RKC was overwhelming, so we were given ETK's turkish getup, swing, and c&p. But now I need 2 DVDs worth of coaching for just one of these dumbass exercises? Seriously, what the FUCK?

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Could This Powerful Turkish Wrestling Exercise Be the Single Best Secret for the Cultivation of "Beautiful" Strength?

Modern-day athletic performance experts hail rewards of the ancient "Turkish Get-Up"—reveal cutting edge program for both correcting and radically enhancing your physical movement

Kettlebells from the Ground Up
The Kalos Sthenos
With Gray Cook, RKC and
Brett Jones, Master RKC
Manual co-authored with
Dr. Mark Cheng, RKC Team Leader


Item # DVS017 $79.95 Introductory offer: Order by midnight PST, Thursday, February 12 and save $10.00 on your investment!
2-DVD set with 36 page spiral-bound manual

Can one exercise sequence do it all? Can one exercise provide insight into how you move? Could one exercise be the key to achieving a balanced and strong body?

Well, according to the two of the most highly regarded "Engineers of Movement Mastery", Gray Cook and Brett Jones, the answer is a resounding Yes!

When past Super Bowl champion teams have wanted to ensure their athletes are moving at full potential, Gray Cook has been their go-to guy. When Pavel and Dragon Door wanted similar results with their certified RKC instructors, they invited Gray Cook and Brett Jones to design the CK-FMS certification program to fill that need.

Turns out, one of the absolute cornerstones, one of the greatest success breakthroughs Gray and Brett contributed was an astonishingly thorough re-engineering of the revered Turkish Get Up.

Although the Turkish Get Up has always been a staple, core exercise taught at the RKC, Gray and Jones consider it a vastly under-appreciated and under-used method. A fundamental drill, as important to high-level performance as the classic kettlebell Swing.

So Gray and Brett, with additional masterly contributions from Dr. Mark Cheng, have created a brilliantly comprehensive instructional guide that every RKC and every serious athlete will want to watch and learn from many, many times.

Kettlebells From the Ground Up not only introduces you to the basics of the Turkish Get Up, but provides you with all the tools you need to master this movement. In a carefully progressive, 7-step process Gray and Brett help you toward Get Up perfection.

And as you would expect of these Masters of Movement Engineering, they don't just stop at showing you how to perform the exercise. Discover why the Turkish Get Up is simultaneously a profound and broad-ranging assessment tool, a tremendously effective corrective strategy and a formidable workout where the sky's the limit for athletic accomplishment.

For lay comrades, the language is kept simple and clear. But for the pros who need the extra background, each of the 7 Steps has a "tips for Pros" section that alone is worth the price of admission.

The old time strongmen used the Get Up as an "entrance exam" requiring a 100-pound Get Up on each side before beginning any other training. The Turkish Wrestlers used the Get Up to train for combat and grappling. And today the Get Up represents an opportunity for everyone to regain the "beautiful strength" and symmetry that our so-called fitness routines should bring us—but invariably don't!


An assessment and an exercise…
As Gray Cook has so eloquently stated: "modern fitness techniques can actually allow us to stack fitness on dysfunction." Meaning that we can actually take a "bent frame" and put a bigger engine in that car. Not a great idea…

To perform safely at our peak, year-in, year-out, we need to cultivate a "symmetry of strength and movement". Enter the Get Up!

Because the Get Up can provide us with that crucial Left to Right assessment of movement and strength… At each of the 7 steps on the Kettlebells from the Ground Up DVD you will know if the movement, stability and strength is equal. The exercise actually becomes an assessment.


Shoulders and Hips
"Some schools of Chinese medicine…refer to the shoulder and hip joints as the Four Knots and where there is an imbalance of tension or strength in any of the Four Knots problems…can occur…" Dr. Mark Cheng brings us this excellent description of the interplay between shoulders and the hips. Modern reductionist fitness philosophy has people attempting to isolate pieces and parts of the body into something called "fitness". But this is simply not how the body works. Movement is an incredibly complicated concert of agonist/antagonist muscle action coordinated by a web of neurological input.

So how about simply cutting to the chase—while maintaining this exquisite integrity— by performing an exercise that requires us to move our body around a stabile shoulder coordinated through mobile hips? Sounds like the Get Up doesn't it? Correct. Correct…


Getting Primitive…
The beginning for the Get Up represents a very primitive rolling pattern. Many of us actually lose this rolling pattern as we age. But loss of this fundamental pattern can—and usually does—create a cascade effect through the body of dysfunction and compensation.

If an individual is having issues with the beginning of the Get Up it could be because of a defective rolling pattern—and working on the first part of the exercise can "bring back" this primitive movement pattern. With a welcome upgrade to your overall athletic performance.

When you progress through each step of Kettlebells from the Ground Up, you'll be self-engineering a whole series of similar athletic performance breakthroughs, one building on the next for an ever more elegant and powerful overall result.

If you're currently dissatisfied in ANY WAY, by the quality of your movement, then you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of Kettlebell from the Ground Up NOW—and fix what needs to be fixed.

If you don't oil your vehicle or don't put air in a flat tire, you're heading for serious trouble. It's not a case of if, it's a case of when.

Our bodies are no different.

Unfortunately, we often scrimp and shortchange our bodies by neglecting or procrastinating on this crucial self-maintenance. Ironically, often the more skilled we are as athletes the more procrastinate on fixing our dysfunctions. Bad idea!

The Kettlebell from the Ground Up program—designed by two absolute masters of the game—could just be a life-saver for your athletic performance. Go for it!

Order by midnight PST, Thursday, February 12 and save $10.00 on your investment!

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I'm going to take it a step further.

I'm writing a book on kettlebell training done without a kettlebell.

Source of this grand revelation that in years of reading oldtimey feats and histories I have never heard?

Now , if I were to do TGUs ever , I would do them light & fast. Not the slow half-assed boring-as circus move.

As you say , wtf?

No kidding. I will never buy any kettlebell media ever again. EVAR!!!

A lot of that shit is just pure bunk and hype.

For example, that 100# get up bit. I don't even know the source, but it might have been Saxon's book where he mentioned "A trainee could do worse than to first work up to a hundred pound turkish get up" or something like that. maybe it was Hackenschmidts.

A lot of that old stuff is complete buffoonery, if you haven't ever looked at it. And a lot of it is really just thinly veiled man-love.

Also, am I alone in saying that I want to stab Mark Cheng to death? Metaphorically speaking, of course, since I would probably opt for a hatchet. Is that man a real doctor? Like an MD, or at least a PhD?

I will lay muchos virtual money that before too long , someone idiot will be killed trying a heavy TGU. Of course , the dvds always say "don't ever try this at home" as a disclaimer.

If you want to try dangerous lifts that won't kill you but may maim you, I can recommend KB popcorn lifts.

Speaking of Art Saxon , I love that lift he describes where you lie on your back and lift a heavy barbell balanced on the soles of your feet whilst extending your trunk above the floor.. As he says , it is easy to smash your skull in , which is why I do not perform this little variation.

Stop the mockery as this is groundbreaking stuff.

I hope they do a cert. 4 easy payments of $500. It's a valuable "investment" in JDC's retirement

Cat, please.
Stabbing is far too kind for that faggot.

Well, Mr. Martone DID TGU his wife.

"Cheng holds a doctorate degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine"

http://www.chung-hua.com/biography.html

Dr. Mark Cheng is awesome. He's a bigtime player in the regional V-TEC/Honda tuner scene. He gets me cheap parts from Japan.

...yet a drill not performed by the world's greatest KB lifters?

I have an idea: online certs for IGx. Titles should include various levels of Shitstirring, Trolling and Go Fuck Yourself, including Master and Team Leader. My aspiration would be to get to: Smet, IGx Master Team Leader of Fuck Off, Level VI.

Then write a book on fitness. Say, IGx Way of Fitness Through Kettlebells, Barbells and Yoga. Chapters would include: Fuck the RKC, Fuck the AKC, Fuck the OTW, Yoga is Gay, I've Enough of This Shit - Fuck the IGx. We can re-engineer pushup (from Tactical into Strategic) and elaborate on Swedish-Sit-Down-On-Your-Balls (it was used by the Russian soldiers in the army of Peter the Great, after they beat Gengiz Khan in Moldavia in 1203). According to the sources, no soldier could be allowed to the battle until they could do SSDOYB with 420 lbs. Honest.

If they order by Friday the price is 20% more.

Awesome. So, who's going to buy it and then tell us how much it sucked?

That's a particularly sore point for me. A degree in Chinese plant voodoo does not a doctor make.

This shit is magical.

Just listen to all of our RKC amigos. Whitley, Rif, Cheng, etc....

Remember, you DO need physical therapy before you train. Preferably INTENSIVE and LONG physical therapy. Preferably up the asshole.

Beautiful strength? Comrades , the oestrogens in plastic packaging is having the predicted effect. This is serious. Just watch fertility rates plummet.

This is a needed product for all grunt level ManFuckers looking to make the jump in paygrade to Gen-U-Wine KJW Cockjumpers.

I don't know which is gayer, AdamTGlass or the rest of these faggot RKCs.

What a fuckin waste. How many more products do we all need so we can handle those goofyballs with the right attitude and get the body we want?

Kookballs=OCD

Now if Adam T put out a dvd or book, sheeiitt I'd buy that in a second

Get a used copy of John Brookefield's hand strength book; all you need for ultimate badassedness gripwise. Diesel Crew are always worth checking out too.

Pavel didn't know what what the fuck a Turkish Get Up was until Steve Maxwell told him.

LOL at "lay comrades"!