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> "Steve Freides" <steve DeleteThis @fridayscomputer.com> wrote in message
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>>> http://www.newyorkbarbells.tv/im-0350wh.html
>>>
>>> They are switching over to a wider handled, more traditional looking
>>> kettlebell. I picked up a 35 pounder yesterday. Workmanship and
>>> casting is OK. I don't have any Pavlov kettlebells to compare to,
>>> these were supposedly designed by Chinese masters.....
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>> Their first offering, pictured on the left here:
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>> http://www.newyorkbarbells.tv/kettlebells.html
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>> was less than satisfactory for most things.
>>
>> The flat top to the handle and the corner at the ends of it still
>> isn't great. See the difference?
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>> http://www.dragondoor.com/images/thumbnails/p10.jpg
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>> -S-
>> http://www.kbnj.com
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> I see the difference, but is it really significant?
It depends. We had an interesting discussion on Bryce Lane's board
about different kettlebell handles. There's a handle-only product
called the Kettlestack that you load your own plates onto. For the life
of me, I could not figure out a way to snatch the thing right-handed
without the edge of a plate landing on a bone in my forearm. This is
not an issue for people new to the Kettlestack - they either figure out
a way to use what they've got, give up entirely, or whatever else, but
I've been doing this for a few years and have my own "groove" for the
movement. It was interesting but not altogether unexpected that the
groove I had left-handed was different than the one I had right-handed.
I could use the handle-based kettlebell left-handed for snatches without
much problem although I still didn't find them as comfortable as with
the kettlebells I was used to.
So there are things like that with the difference in handle between the
two kinds of kettlebells we're talking about as well - it only matters
if it matters to you. I tend to slide into the rounded area of the
handle pretty quickly when doing high-rep snatches and I think it would
matter to me, although I don't think I'd mind it nearly as much as the
sort of problems I describe above with the plate-loaded handle.
Bottom line - for swings, just about anything should work. For
movements in which the bell flips around like cleans and snatches, the
handle shape becomes pretty important. For movements in which the
handle flips once then stays there, e.g., jerks or presses, probably
somewhere in between in terms of importance. If you look here, for
instance:
http://www.kettlebell.co.uk
you'll see the same rounding at the edges of the handle. I've used
these and _really_ like them, and if I was in the UK, I'd get them
instead of DragonDoor kettlebells because they're less expensive.
-S-
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