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Girevoy sport

Interview with Elena Viktorovna Yurysheva

by Emily on February 22, 2010

The following interview was done by Ice Chamber Coach Maya:
Master of Sport, Elena Viktorovna Yurysheva is from the Vologodskaya region in the city of Vytegra, Russia.  She is 25 years old and weighs between 60-61 kilograms.  Elena credits her coach, Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Ogarev, for helping her become one of the first [...]

Interview with Valery Fedorenko

by Emily on February 15, 2010

Ice Chamber Coach Maya interviews Valery Fedorenko :

Valery Fedorenko Interview

Maya: Describe some aspects of your childhood that led you to Kettlebells.  Did you play any other sports or consider yourself athletic as a young man?
Valery’s Master of Sport Badge/ID from the Ministry of Sport Dept. USSR/Moscow
Fedorenko: I’m not sure I considered myself [...]

Easter Kettlebell Strongman/woman Comp

by Emily on January 19, 2010

The kettlebell strongman/woman competition is a brand new, and very exciting, addition to competitive kettlebell lifting.   We would like to invite everyone from around the world who has a passion for kettlebells to participate in this virtual competition that we’re organising.
Most of you have probably seen Valery Fedorenko’s impressive work with heavy bells, now it’s [...]

Australia Now Has a Master of Sports…

by Emily on December 7, 2009

I started writing a blog post about getting the rank of Master of Sports (MS).  Very quickly I could see it was going to turn epic, and worse come across as a lot of self indulgent crap.  So I decided to give you the abridged version, and then get onto the really good stuff, which [...]

Interview With Cate Imes

by Emily on October 19, 2009

Catherine Imes is the USA’s first Master of Sports and has several world championships in Girevoy sport under her belt. Anyone who has seen footage of Cate training or competing will know two things about her: 1) she is a VERY tough individual 2) she has excellent form.
Cate has been coaching me online for the [...]

John Wild Buckley

by Emily on September 21, 2009

Yes, that is his real name (I asked).
John is a giant of a man with superhuman strength and the founder of the Orange Kettlebell Club. He has snatched a 70kg kettlebell (known affectionately as “Nibbler” – made of depleted uranium), and has jerked a 32kg and a 48kg IN ONE HAND. That’s a total of [...]

For a long time (as long as I can remember) I had been having a great deal of trouble with locking out a kettlebell overhead on my right side, despite being very right hand dominant and generally a lot stronger on my right side. I could only hold overhead lockout on the right for [...]

Breathing Patterns In Kettlebell Jerks

by Emily on August 26, 2009

Paul Tucker, Australia’s resident Girevoy sport expert, posted this on the forum and we think it’s very interesting and undeniably blog-worthy:
Mishin S. N. Master of Sports and Head Coach of Russian Team and Tihonov, V. F. State University of Chuvashks (Cheboksary) translated from Russian by Denis Kanygin
Translation by Denis Kanygin, Master Trainer and Founder of [...]

The Girevoy Sport Association Australia (GSAA) is going to run their first official cross country Girevoy Sport Competition!
The competition will be run on Saturday 8th August, with host venues across the country (stay tuned for more details on these).
We will be hosting a meet here at our Iron Edge facility in Richmond. Entry fee [...]