Here’s another video of strongman Valentin Dikul. If you missed the one of him juggling a 180 lb. kettlebell click here.
In this video he effortlessly throws around steel balls. Not sure the weight on these but I can guarantee you they’re not light.
Perhaps this can give you some ideas for your kettlebell juggling?
In strength,
Logan Christopher
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Valentin Dikul is an amazing man. He broke his back as a circus performer at a young age. Despite doctors telling him he wouldn’t walk again he went on to do much more than that.
After rehabbing himself, Valentin Dikul went back to the circus to do many amazing feats like the kettlebell juggling shown below. This is a 180 lb. or possibly even 90 kg kettlebell the he snatches and does one hand flips with!
He has done many other amazing feats in his act as and outside including some unofficial powerlifting records with massive weights.
Currently Valentin Dikul runs a number of clinics over Russia devoted to helping others overcome their spinal injuries. Their success rate is quite high.
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Logan Christopher
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I have a whole section in The Definitive Guide to Kettlebell Juggling on being creative and making up your own moves. Think about what else you can incorporate into your kettlebell juggling?
After watching a video of a professional kettlebell juggler I saw her drop down into a one handed bridge between throwing the weight around. Being that I have quite a bit of experience with bridging exercises I decided to try it out myself.
Kettlebell Juggling with Bridging
After some practice I had some success with the move being able to fall into it. Standing up out of the bridge proved to be more difficult. Now you may not be able to do this move, but what can you do?
In strength,
Logan Christopher
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It’s nice to have a perfect sunny day when you go outside to do kettlebell juggling, but you don’t always get that. The truth is kettlebell juggling can be done in all weather conditions. Rain, snow, mud, its all good.
Of course these conditions do make it more difficult. The kettlebell is likely to slip and fly out of your fingers more readily then when its dry. But then again we’re not juggling kettlebells because it’s easy. This just requires some more hand strength.
This video shows some muddy kettlebell juggling. You’ll notice when the kettlebell flies out of my hands.
You may have recently seen some of my successful students kettlebell juggling in the snow. There really are no excuses. You can juggle kettlebells anywhere (except indoors).
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Logan Christopher
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Kettlebells are not the only weight you can throw around. In this post we’ll cover block weights.
Block weights are the cut off ends of work or hex dumbbells. This removes the handle and thus you must use your hand strength, particularly the pinch grip, in order to lift the weight. If you can lift a 50 lb. block weight you have a world class grip!
You can do many different moves with the block weights. Just doing standard lifts like picking them up is fine but when you add the dynamic component you really start to have some fun.
Block weight tossing involves throwing the weight from one hand to another, doing around the body passes, and more. You can include other moves like cleans, snatches and curls in too. Check out this video to see wehat it looks like.
Block Weight Tossing
Block weights are just one more weight you can throw around to build strength and have fun.
In strength,
Logan Christopher
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