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Just got back from another OKCJ tour in Japan. The J in OKCJ is for...well...Japan. We have been travelling to teach in Japan since 2008 and this time we did a 4 city tour and hosted our first competition! We had a lot of fun and made many new friends! Here is a short video made by our friend MUK. 

Thank You MUK!!!

We have been traveling so much recently it is a pleasure for the two of us to be in our respective homes. Not that we are tired of each other...no no no... but we are home and bored so we thought we should do what we do. We love to coach and teach so we will both be hosting a couple of 1 day seminars.

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On July 30th 2011 we will be teaching beginner and intermediate seminars in Oakland and Los Angeles!! John Wild will be teaching in Oakland Ca and Jason will be teaching in Los Angeles. These are our best value for beginners seminars. They are also good for working on the basics. The morning is the beginning and the afternoon is the intermediate section. 

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We just got back from Russia after the IKSFA Elite Kettlebell Sport Camp and we had the pleasure of competing in the St. Petersburg Kettlebell Championship. You can read about it here. Jason and Nazo both got a bronze medal and I got a silver. It was lots of fun and I got to compete standing next to Sergey Rachinskiy! It was awesome!!!

At the end of the month Jason, Nazo (hopefully) and I will be off to Toronto to teach another 2 Day Workshop! I am expecting the weather to be cold but the company to be warm. I just hope it will be cold enough for me to rock my Canada Goose Parka again! Oakland is way to warm for that.

We had a great workshop in Costa Mesa at Innovative Results last weekend! You can read a little of the writeup on What Would Kettle Do? Thank you to Corey, Aaron, and Geof for hosting us and being so cool! It was great to meet and work with you all :-) I hope to see you all again soon (With Nazo!!). 

Up Next is Toronto! Stay tuned!!!

We are going to be teaching an OKC 2 Day Workshop in Costa Mesa this weekend! Don't miss it!!! (seriously, don't be that guy) 

We will be in Frisco Texas this Weekend with BJ Bliffert teaching a 2 Day OKC Workshop! Jason and John Will Be teaching and we are looking forward to dinner on Friday night with everyone so we can talk about Siberia!! You can register here We hope to see you there! 

http://riseabovestrength.com Some Hi-lights of the kettlebell movements

Hi Everyone! We flew all the way around the world today! From as far east in Asia as you can get to Los Angeles the long way. So if you don’t count the Pacific Ocean (no big deal right???) We flew all the way around  I am putting in the pictures for this blog so it looks a little more like what we had in mind. I will have a new blog up today, so don’t spoil your dinner on this one

Thank you for reading!!!

jw

Dolby LC/24kg/70

Buckley J/24kg/38, S/24kg/76+76

Now that we got that out of the way we can move on to the important stuff

Jason and I were nervous. How could we not be? We had been looking to this comp for so long that we had forgotten what it was like to not be stressed about it. Now it was here and we were in a locker room with all of these lifters (over 100 competitors) and we knew that every one of them was going to beat us down. Then there was a command given and everyone formed two lines. An official came and grabbed Jason and I and brought us to the front. We were begging her not to put us ahead of everyone there. The two Americans, we thought, would be treated with resentment. We lucked out and the whole line started moving before we got to the front so we were able to blend in…a little.

They played the national anthem (the same exact version that was in Rocky 4! Super intense!!!) and raised the flag. My heart was in my throat. Then they honored the lifters with mini children ballroom dancing and large retired military men feats of strength. It was pretty cool.

There were no clocks or counters. It was a bring your own situation so Jason and I were nervous from the get. We realized that our environment would be different than what we were expecting. We just didn’t know how much.

(By the way, super cute Russian girl judges? Really? Not distracting, totally awesome, totally Chu-Hi)

The kids were first. They wanted pictures with us. Then it was the older lifters. Then some girls  then the champion lifters. We must have taken 100 pictures. We were worried about them hating us because we were on TV and in the paper and they could out lift us on any day but they did not. They welcomed us. We also noticed that they all seemed to like and support each other. (Except for one guy, but there always seems to be one of those guys).  I was trying to warm up for my set and they kept asking me for pictures. It was cool. That was the moment I realized I was probably not going to get good numbers. Crazy environment, can’t warm up, and maximum distractions? This could be the most awesome kind of excuse in the world.

Funny thing is, I did well. Well for me that is. The jerk is my worst lift. I still have trouble with rest and the lockout. But 3½ min and 38 reps is a pr for me (I know it is terrible). I was hoping for 40 but I’ll take 38. So no excuses on that set...

read the whole entry at http://orangekettlebellclub.net/2011/02/28/competition/