What Would Kettle Do?

Hi everyone. First off I would like to apologize to all of my friends that I did not get to visit with on this trip. It has been several years since I have been to Long Island and while I was there I took some time to clear my head.

I am sure that everyone needs some time off. Like most of you I’m sure my life never stops and when this chance came up I took it. After a few days on Long Island I went up to see my mother in PA. I am still at her house now and I will be heading down to NYC for this weekends workshop in a few min. I am looking forward to it. A little time away has made me miss the bells.

Usually I feel very solitary. I tend to keep to myself and I exist in my head most of the time. I have been told that it is not a good thing but it’s just who I am. I imagine that is why I like the bells so much. It is a relationship I am born for, one that doesn’t really fit, that hurts a lot, and ends up being worth every moment of the fight.

The problem with living in my head is that I tend to slide. I can’t always control my emotions and when I slide people get hurt. After that I usually retreat to my head, apologize and walk away. Some of you have probably gotten an apology like this from me. They are as true as my being can possibly make them.

I know this is a weird blog. Sorry about that, I’m in a weird place right now. Hopefully all this emotion will translate into something good. I mean, there has got to be some upside to being such a damn head case,,, right?

kettle,

Oh Boy! It is Time for everyone to see the famous OKC smile.*

This weekend in New York City at the Long-Cycle championships I have been invited to entertain! I bring this up because since I can’t sing or dance or do magic tricks, and because I am not very funny or talented in general, I am going to have to do what I always do and pick things up only to put them down again.

Boring fore sure, but I will do my best to bring a smile (or a tear) to all of your beautiful, shining faces (insert colon –dash- parentheses -smiley face here).

From what I understand I will get to lift along side the king of American Kettlebell Strongmen Mr. Andrew Durniat! I hope that I will be able to hold my own.

So if anyone of you has plans of being lifted overhead please stop eating right now.

Oh, if anyone reading this has access to heavy bells (super heavy bells) please bring them!!!

See you all Saturday.

Kettle,

*The OKC smile is circled in Orange

This is a video my friends Mark and Marcus at MBody Strength made after a day of us clowning around at the OKC Loft in Oakland. I need to get some longer t-shirts!

I hope you guys like it!

kettle,

Today is the first day of the new blog. I have decided to discontinue my old blog on the orangekettlebell.com site in order to consolidate the OKC. I am opening this new blog up because I want to be able to communicate with my friends and fellow kettlebell lifters. When I was discussing what I should call it with a friend of mine he said “WWKD” so that’s what it is.

Over the next few weeks there will be some changes in the OKC. Some will be larger than others but all are being done in an effort to find some joy in this racket we call Kettlebell. This blog is the first of these changes. I hope that you all enjoy it.

I can’t promise that everything I write will have to do with Kettles or lifting or anything at all really. I remember when I used to be about more than lifting, I’m headed back that way, yes,,,that is what I wanted to say. Please disregard everything before that last sentence.

kettle,