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 [...]
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Interview with Elena Viktorovna Yurysheva
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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 [...]
Technique First: A Case for Kettlebell Safety
By Steven Khuong, CSCS
As the kettlebell becomes more mainstream, it is pertinent that ripped hands, bruised forearms, and torn ligaments not become synonymous with the tool. Independent of any dichotomy regarding styles or programming, people using kettlebells or teaching with them have a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jamie Douse, one of our very own Australian Kettlebell Workshop presenters, has written an excellent article on the use of ballistic kettlebell exercises as supplementary training for the MMA athlete.
Jamie has a list of credentials as long as your arm. He has been involved in the fitness industry 20 + years, specialising in kettlebell training [...]
