The "Greek" Kettlebell Club Experience

[stardingo747]

I don't lift weights, I swing them.

lifting a kettle bell is blasphemous; the ancient Greeks swung them, they didn't lift them!

[giorgios95]

@stardingo747 Excuse me? You do know the olympic games are from Greece correct? Lifting weights was one of them. :)

[stardingo747]

@giorgios95 yeah I knew, but for strength building I know they relied more on swings that lifts. During the actual contests though, I know that cleans and dead lifts were invented in Greece.

[giorgios95]

@stardingo747 very true, just making sure bro hahahahaahah u Greek?

[stardingo747]

@giorgios95 no I'm not, but, the reason the Russians have a weight lifting tradition, actually the whole of eastern Europe, is because of all the Slavic refugees taking in by the Byzantine empire. The invasion of the Huns set up a domino effect; the Huns displaced the Goths, the Goths displaced the Slavs, and the Slavs entered the borders of the Byzantine empire. Since the Russians are slavs, their ancestors were heavily influenced by Greek culture.

[stardingo747]

@giorgios95 the byzantine empire was in reality, more Greek than it was Roman; if you look closely, the Russian alphabet is in fact only a variation of the Greek one. Weight training and wrestling among eastern europeans, it all goes back to ancient Greece, its the reason they're good. Where Americans have only been grappling for about 200 years, the Russians practice a 2,000 year old grappling tradition.

[giorgios95]

@stardingo747 your words are kind and true my friend. I have been practicing an ancient martial art known to only my family and a few others in Sparta, Greece. It is called Nixia Leodos(Lions claws), this technique is VERY old and is said that a master should be able to kill a lion. This martial art is alot like pankration, only it is meant for one purpose, to kill. Hahahahaha enough with my blabbing, just getting lost within my self. You are true. Very true