What Would Kettle Do?

This week was a little better in practice than last week. We are all working on different things. Nazo is working her way back after a long layoff. Juliet is going to do a set of Long Cycle this Saturday at the IKFF meet in LA. I am trying to work myself back into shape after a sweet and awesome stage five! BOOM!!

I have not really posted any Jerk sets on the blog because I am embarrassed of my numbers. I have this mental block when it comes to Jerk and I am always stuck between 30-35 reps. This week I did ok on Monday. Wed was terrible and I crashed during the second set but Friday was a good day. I was happy with my pacing and I got 37 reps with the 28′s. I know this is not an earth shattering number of reps but it is a pr for me with the 28′s. I started to get excited once I got to 30 and lost my concentration a little bit and dropped them at 37. I was happy with the set but the normal emotions crept in afterward. “I could have done 40 but I quit”. It is what we call the “steady state” around here, no matter how good the set is it still sucked.

Juliet needed a little break from Biathlon and this weekend she is going to take a shot at Long Cycle. We have not trained long cycle in over a year and she has about 2 weeks to prepare for this competition so one of the things she is stuck doing this week is “clean with extra swing”. We use this drill to build grip strength and timing for the clean. It is a great drill to write on a program and a terrible drill to see on a program…Boom!

Nazo has been a blast to train with as she is working her way back to the platform! Most of you know about her time being stuck in Japan during the earthquake and it has been a long road…BUT SHE’S BACK BABY!!! She is working on long cycle and we are building up her strength with a 14kg in a 5×5 drill. 5 seconds in the rack then 5 seconds in the lockout. It’s nasty. It’s double nasty with two bells! She really guts it out on this set and puts up with a cheeky camera man as he keeps it rolling after the set!! Chu-Hi!!

This is my snatch set from Wed. It is 32kg snatch+extra swing. Coach Rudnev is a mean man. Doesn’t he know I’m out of shape?! Well, I’m in shape if the shape is round! Anyway…I survived and finished the set. I have been working on my backswing because I get lazy and let the bell bend behind me. Apparently I think I am so big and strong that I can get away with being lazy...nyet. You can see in the beginning I am bending around the back badly. I try to get every rep clean but I still have much practice ahead. Coach calls this “A major flaw” in my technique. He is right naturally. I am working on it.

My student JT Killed his 10 min Long Cycle set in Hawaii with 65 reps in 10 min with 24kgs! I am very proud of him!!

And in Singapore my student Ian did a great set of 40 reps in 5 min with the 20′s Long Cycle. Ian has come such a long way and I am proud of him as well. What a great student and friend!

Next week I hope to get some footage of Dolby, Salemi, and Sarah up here…Stay Tuned

kettle,

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