Re: Matrix
Originally posted by Jeff Bussey
I’ll definitely let you know
Jeff,
Thanks, I’d appreciate that.
*Bill
Hi Jeff,
>I’ll have a better idea of what these excercises are like on Sat >but your input is much appreciated. For some reason the look of >them makes me wanna train. Weird?
For some reason k-bells are easy to fall in love with- they’re very primal, more so than dumbells, IME.
I found them while looking for something that would achieve similar conditioning results to oversized weapons, which, from what I can tell, are among the conditiong secrets of CMA (i.e. spear in Baji, Xing Yi, and Chen taiji, long dao in Ba Gau). As I learn more about long pole, I realize they aren’t entirely the same thing, but can be used to excellent effect, and have their own merits.
I would strongly recommend working your bent press and windmills to death. The hip abductors get a very nice stretch with these lifts, and are recruited pretty heavily from what I can tell. These are almost invariably tight in Wing Chun practioners who’ve spent time developing the stance and use the YGKM, and tend to cause some nasty referred back pain.
Later,
Andrew
Hey everyone,
Yesterday I went to a KB session and I loved it. My a$$ and hamstrings are really sore this morning. Like I said before, the instructor is Ed Hum here in Ottawa and he brought several different KB sizes. I bought a 35lb (known as 1 pood), he also had a 53lb but that was too heavy for most of the exercises for me. We went to a park close by and just started.
First he showed us some warm ups:
-First he mentioned that you should be doing this in either bare feet or flat soled shoes with no arch support so that the majority of your foot touches the ground
-We started with pretty much everything I’ve done in ving tsun to stretch/loosen my neck, shoulders, back and legs
-Jumping forward and out from standing position. Basically if you’re standing straight up, jump up and forward pushing your hips out and spreading your hands and feet. This is supposed to loosen up your hips and pelvis for the thrusting that you do when you swing the KB
-Jumping up and out from lying down on the ground. Same as above except your on the ground first and this one is harder
-Then we went through some of the basic exercises without the KB
-Finally some proper breathing
Now we were ready to start some of the exercises.
To get and idea of what they look like, here’s a website that shows the majority of what we did http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kettlename.php
This is how it went:
-Two leg bends
-One leg bends
-Two arm swing
-One arm swing
-Clean
-Clean and Jerk
-Snatch
-Turkish get ups
-Windmill
-Rolling abs
-Chest Flyes on a swiss ball
-Overhead extensions with a swiss ball
-Bottoms-up clean and press
-Dragon walk which really hurt.
Essentially, if you think of doing walking lunges, it’s kinda like that. Left foot goes forward, right knee comes down (about 2 inches off the ground) and right behind the left foot so it’s not deep stepping plus when your knee comes down you are aiming to go towards the outside of the left foot so your knee is crossing the front foot. Stand up straight and repeat. Not sure if that sounds confusing or not. Obviously we were doing this while holding a KB and we didn’t go too far. We walked about 30 feet, turned around and walked back, but man I just made it back.
Then, without rest we did this drill which was awesome, we did 10 two arm swings, and then ran to one end of the field and back. We did this 3 times and right about then is when I died.
Going from the dragon walk to that, literally almost killed me but it was so fun. We only trained for an hour but that was more than enough.
So after all of that, how will this help my ving tsun, I don’t know.
One thing is for sure, it’ll build up my legs and core (hips and abs), plus like any other resistance training give me some overall strength. Only time will tell, but either way, I loved it. 
The only thing that I would say is that if you were to get one, I would definitely get and instructor to show you the basic movements. You could really hurt yourself if you don’t do it properly. I paid $50 for an hour but I think it was worth it to know that I have the proper technique.
J