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rifstonian: September 08 2006 

John why didnt you announce this? 

Andreas new DVD? Did I miss it? I just had a look at the table of contents and it looks great! My female clients will love this, can't wait to see it. Rif 

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John Du Cane: September 09 2006 

We will be doing the promotion in about a week. However we are expecting some relatively large PR this weekend so wanted to make sure it was at least up. You are correct, this is an extremely female-friendly DVD and Andrea has done a wonderfully thorough job with it. Kristann Heinz and Nicole do a terrific job too. 

 

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durkis: September 10 2006 

Kettlebells in Pregnancy 

Has anyone got some good information on KB training during pregnancy? Before pregnancy my partner has been doing 3 sets of 5 windmills, side press and clean/military press with 8KG KB, then 3-4 sets of 5 snatches, one arm swings and cleans with the 12KG. She's now ten weeks gone and not sure what she should be avoiding and what is safe. Cheers. 

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John Du Cane: September 11 2006 

She has written an excellentt article on this subject (she is also the mother of a small child) which will be published in the Vitalics coming out next month. It is based on her talk on Kettlebells and Pregnany in Andrea Du Cane's new Kettlebell Goddess DVD See link in the left navigation beside this forum. 

 

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Dennis Armstrong: September 12 2006 

The Beast to be featured on Kare-11 News at 10 p.m. tonight 

According to Joe Pavel, RKC, the local NBC affiliate will be showcasing a segment on their "Perk at Play" feature with Eric Perkins meeting The Beast. Hopefully, it will be added to their website: http://www.kare11.com/sports/perkatplay/perkplay.aspx

http://www.kare11.com/sports/perkatplay/perkplay.aspx 

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John Du Cane: September 13 2006 

also showed Pavel's Power to the People book and we got to see him swinging a number of different size bells. Very funny to see him drop the Beast on his foot and walk off on crutches threatening to sue.. . And I liked the remark about the cats and your kettlebell sandpit. Gotta hand it to you, Joe, for pulling it off and gotta hand it to you having a Vote for BEAST tee available. That was kind of an inside joke after seeing you in a Vote for Pedro tee that one day. Should be a winner!  

 

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Dennis Armstrong: September 12 2006 

The Beast to be featured on Kare-11 News at 10 p.m. tonight 

According to Joe Pavel, RKC, the local NBC affiliate will be showcasing a segment on their "Perk at Play" feature with Eric Perkins meeting The Beast. Hopefully, it will be added to their website: http://www.kare11.com/sports/perkatplay/perkplay.aspx

http://www.kare11.com/sports/perkatplay/perkplay.aspx 

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John Du Cane: September 12 2006 

physical exercise, so we can expect this to be a kind of Napolean Dynamite of kettlebells situation. (I realize that may be unfair on Napolean, he had some nifty moves at the end there...) Super Klutz gets Beasted, or something like that.... it could be very funny. "Vote for BEAST" tee anyone?  

 

Question

cannavaro: September 25 2006 

RKC Pass Rate 

Thinking of doing the RKC next year and was wondering how many people tend to fail. Also, I will probably have to travel outside the UK to do it so having to do a resit might be a bit costly! 

Answer

John Du Cane: September 25 2006 

It varies from cert to cert, depending on the quality of that group, however the fail rate is around twenty percent usually. Make sure to seek out a good RKC in the UK to give you some extra training before you come over, then you should be fine. Jonathan Lewis would be a very good RKC choice to study with. 

 

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BJones RKC: December 16 2005 

I do agree with Ross's article - a conditioning program is where you work on strength and other "weak" links - you then transfer that to your goal activity through skill practice.