Kozushi
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Once my shoulder heals up nice I'm going to set out a daily routine with the other SFG1 moves to complement my S&S: the clean & press and snatch. Maybe the overhead press doesn't create the showy muscles that a bench press or hard core pushups do, but it's a terribly effective and important pressing exercise all the same and a wee bit more "real world" practical(?) perhaps than forward pushing. A craftsman should not biasedly leave out any tools he needs for his work, and I can't see any reason to leave out the rest of the SF system any longer now that I'll say that I am "good at S&S" at the 40kg weight. Pavel Macek pointed out to me recently the importance of using weights rather than overly relying on bodyweight exercises, and his wisdom on this point is very crucial I think to my future/continued successes in judo and similar. I am definitely going to be pursuing Al Kavadlo's "Get Strong" challenge, and I'm looking forward to having to train with only his moves when I go camping out in the Canadian wilderness this summer without my kettlebell collection - I'll get to do the moves in a similar setting to what he has in his pictures! His stuff is done only every third(!) day, so this leaves lots of space for kettlebelling!!! I'm still very tempted to go for a barbell, but thinking it over thoroughly, I'd only use it for clean, press and squat, and frankly speaking I can do all that stuff with either one or two 32kg kettlebells, which I already own. Gee I like SF and kettlebells!!!