Wild Geese Martial Arts & Fitness

Guys, time is running out to register for the Open Kettlebell Lifting competition run by Mick Kelly and his Wexford Kettlebell Lifting...

Erm....... With more and more people jumping on what has become the Kettlebell bandwagon, it is inevitable that there is a watering down...

Is it over? Tell me it's over! This is a little article I wrote for the Wild Geese Martial Arts monthly newsletter, I don’t usually...

Last Sunday I ran the Level 1 Kettlebell Workshop which was attended by 10 eager participants. 2 of whom were regular members of my...

Two things in today’s post 1 – Motivation, what gets you going? 2 – Level One kettlebell workshop 1 – Motivation. Over the last week or...

I’ve been staring at the screen for a little while now wondering what to write about for today’s blog post, I’ve plenty to say, I’m just...

The event was fantastic, the lads really have got the running of a competition down. There were in the region of 30 men and 20 or so...

Sounds like the title of a James Bond movie…. It’s gonna hurt. But that’s what we have to do in order to find out what we’re about, to...

Some of the other attendees from last weekends workshops have been updating their own blogs with details of their own experiences. The...

So where do we start? Steve Cotter gets so much over enthusiastic praise from so many trainers and coaches writing blogs all over the...

Here’s a very quick tip for improving the quality of your Snatch training. This video clip shows a great way to recover from snatch...

It’s a very detailed book on the intricacies of the beautiful martial art of Iaido. As I flicked through a certain chapter jumped out at...

This will be Steve’s third visit to the Wild Geese studio, the two previous have been fantastic learning experiences, in fact when Kieron...

Alright, here’s a heads up. Steve Cotter has just informed me that a gap has appeared in his schedule. Before today Steve and myself...

On Tuesday the guys and girls were arriving for the regular Kettlebell beginners session. In came Roseanne, our oldest regular member, as...

Isn’t it incredible how the power of a glance can change a man’s resolve. I have a lad who trains in the Lunchtime Fitness sessions, a...

We’re now 8 weeks out from the Kilkenny Kettlebell Club’s next competition. 8 weeks away from testing my Jerks and Snatch against some...

Are Kettlebells a fad? Do Kettlebells really work? How are they effective? These are some of the most common questions that surround...

This is the first piece of feedback from last Sundays Level 4 Kettlebell workshop. It’s from another lifelong martial artists who also...

Here’s an awesome video clip sent to me by Wild geese regular Matt. It’s a clip of a real kettlebell master juggling a 16kg bell. Yes,...