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Valentin Dikul – Kettlebell strongman
A circus acrobat, Valentin took a bad fall and broke his back when he was seventeen. Dikul said no to the wheel-chair and painstakingly...

Dave Hedges
Oct 26, 20081 min read
AIKLF – Dublin workshop
A big thanks to Jason Kelly, founder of the All Ireland Kettlebell Lifting Federation (www.AIKLF.eu) for coming down to the Wild Geese...

Dave Hedges
Oct 26, 20081 min read
It’s Your Fault
Are you sick of listening to people making excuses and blaming all around them for things not going to plan? Maybe you are one of these...

Dave Hedges
Oct 9, 20082 min read
Free Suff!!
Have a look at www.wg-fit.com/articles.htm I’ve just added some free PDF and ebooks to it. Get ’em while they’re hot Wild Geese...

Dave Hedges
Oct 7, 20081 min read
Female Workout Scam – Craig Ballantyne
Yesterday I did a workout at the local YMCA, surrounded by a well-meaning Personal Trainer and her 3 overweight female clients. The...

Dave Hedges
Oct 5, 20082 min read
New Classes at the Academy
We’re delighted to announce that we have new instructors and new classes at the Academy. For a full overview of the class schedule go...

Dave Hedges
Oct 5, 20081 min read


Homemade Sandbag
This is about as cheap and convenient a piece of kit that you can get. Sandbag training is nothing new but that doesn’t mean it’s not...

Dave Hedges
Sep 24, 20081 min read


Back Yard workout using Time/Volume Training
Since innovative trainer, Nick Nilsson, told me about his Time/Volume training for Mass protocol, I thought I’d give it a go. But rather...

Dave Hedges
Sep 23, 20081 min read
Here’s a lesson in movement
This is how you’re supposed to move [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKqLoZmfPGs&hl=en&fs=1] Beautiful Wild Geese...

Dave Hedges
Sep 23, 20081 min read
Do you deserve credit?
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done...

Dave Hedges
Sep 18, 20081 min read


Kettlebell Foundation Workshop
presents Kettlebell Foundation Workshop with Jason Kelly Sat 25th Oct at 13:00hrs At the Wild Geese Martial Arts Academy, 14-16 Magennis...

Dave Hedges
Sep 15, 20081 min read
Legends pt II
Got to thinking, since my last post. Legends, hero’s people we aspire to emulate, people we look to for motivation. I’m going to list a...

Dave Hedges
Sep 9, 20083 min read
MaxBells Iceland, Ireland’s next!!
This is taken directly from Steve Maxwell’s Blog (www.maxwellsc.blogspot.com), hopefully it will wet your appetite for his planned visit...

Dave Hedges
Aug 24, 20085 min read
Back to Basics
Over the last few weeks I’ve been very busy, so I’ve stripped everything back to basics. My own training is back to basics, my students...

Dave Hedges
Aug 5, 20081 min read


Win in Cebu for the Wild Geese
He just emailed me to say he won in the 40-50 yr old category of the Doce Pares internationals. Well done mate. Thats Paul on the left...

Dave Hedges
Aug 1, 20081 min read
Do you run with the herd?
Ever watch the discovery channel? How about David Attenborough shows? Do you notice how the predators always pick out the weakest in the...

Dave Hedges
Jul 14, 20081 min read
Knives part 2
So last time we looked at the numbers of murders involving a knife or edged weapon in Ireland, and saw the percentage of deaths had...

Dave Hedges
Jul 12, 20082 min read
Frank Shamrock, Swiss Balls and Kettlebells
Here’s a great video montage showing the UFC legend Frank Shamrock going about his business. A couple of things caught my eye during the...

Dave Hedges
Jul 3, 20081 min read
A Reductionist Approach to Fitness?
This is a guest post from fellow scotsman, martial artist and trainer Alwyn Cosgrove. Alwyn may have crossed over to the darkside by...

Dave Hedges
Jun 26, 20081 min read
Similar Differences
I was just reading a post on the Applied Strength Blog entitled “Contradictions and Situational Correctness”. In it Brett Jones discusses...

Dave Hedges
Jun 20, 20082 min read
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