Sunday, May 23, 2010

How perfectly beautiful is this?

Does it get any better? Such grace, such strength, such timing. Such patience and perfect Mastery of each skill.This Swings.

4 comments:

David R Bradley said...

Watched it twice. Might go back one more time. Solid.

Diana said...

Doing some of the kettlebell moves, you get a sense of just how hard gymnastics really is. It's not just a person doing some flips and spins-watching someone, for example, doing the rings amazes me.
I don't consider myself a gymnast now because I do kettlebells, but having to use my lats and shoulders more than ever sends a new message of what those athletes go through. Just like doing a triathlon-I'm no Ironman, but doing the smaller ones, I get a "jiff" of what you have to go through.

Mark Reifkind said...

david

I watch it all the time. on video and in my head. pure athletic artistry.

Mark Reifkind said...

Diana

the first time I ever swung a kb my immediate thought was " this is just like gymnastics" and I still feel that way. only we are the apparatus and the kb is the gymnast,lol.

175 x 1 x 10 chin press, 20 kg swings 4x5/5 24 kg swings 4 x 5/5 band pushdowns 3 x 15

 These went perfectly.Good thing too as I'm having trigger thumb surgery and won't be pressing bars for two weeks but it has to get ...