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Good book so far. Not 200 pages though, only 175 with the remainder being ads as is customary with DD books.

The pages are very thin. JDC must be trying to cut costs or something. That might explain why the greedy fucker didn't try to charge $50.00 for it

Content-wise it is very organized and replaces the RKC book quite well. There is some repetition from the first book, but that is to be expected. There are some detailed workout plans and Pavel sets up some milestones for one to achieve giving it a PTP sort of "follow this workout" feel.

The Program Minimum is now Swings 2x weekly and TGU's 2x weekly. He also stresses the face the wall squat, halos and "pumps", a down dog to cobra and twist movement , for opening up the hips and shoulders for beginners.

The DVD will arrive one of these days and I'll post a mini review of that, too.

DB

Agree. It replaces the RKC so far. Only about 40 pages in so far.

Mine arrived last night, I gave it a quick speed read before retiring.

Yes, it's pretty good. It has more in common with "From Russia With Tough Love" than the RKC book. Definitely aimed at people interested in getting by with the 'minimum' necessary to reap the benefits of Kbells (ie, people like me), rather than the Mike Mahlers and Steve Cotters of this world.

One improvement - inclusion of 'corrective' drills to insure that you can more easily adopt the proper alignments and force chains - face-the-wall squat, halo, and the "pump'.

Interesting asides in there about what DuCane was up to (and how he made ends meet) in the early days of Dragondoor. It helps explain why he is such a shark these days. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to go back to that kind of hand-to-mouth, sleep-in-the-car existence, especially as he gets older.

Anyway,IMO it's worth getting IF you like kettlebells and Pavel's stuff in general.

Agree with all and think the book is very valuable over all. Only one complaint: Pavel is usually so patient in explaining things clearly, step by step, that I was surprised to see the TGU, which is now the Get Up, mostly explained via pictures. It's the one movement I still have trouble with, and hoped for a little more there.

Still, there's no doubt that, even if you've been working with KBs for a while, you're definitely going to sharpen your skills with this book.