Test Your Mettle With The Trial By Fire!
The Trial by Fire is quite simply one of the most grueling full body tests of strength-endurance that I can think of. The official Trial by Fire is done with a set of 25 lbs Clubbells® (15 lbs for the Ladies), and consists of 130 One-handed Mills on each side, 130 Double Swipes and 130 Two-handed Hammer Swings (65 per direction). The exercises themselves are presented below. For more about Clubbells visit this Squidoo lens
Suffice it to say that the Trial by Fire will rip the skin off your hands and wring every last ounce of muscular strength-endurance from your entire body while it taxes your cardio-vascular system to its limit. It will test your mental toughness and require absolute technical efficiency.
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The club: an ancient tool of strength and skill
For centuries, physical cultures from around the world have used the club as a training tool, a weapon, and a test for feats of stregth
The Clubbell One-handed Mill
My favorite of the three Trial-by-Fire exercises
The Double Swipe
Probably the most grueling part of the Trial-by-Fire
The Two-handed Hammer Swing
These will have your core screaming!
Conquest and the spread of the club
Although Indian clubs may be the most recognized predecessor of the modern Clubbell, the tradition of club swinging goes back to the times of ancient civilizations. In fact, Indian club swinging evolved from a much older Iranian physical culture. With the migrations and cultural exchange which opened up during the period of Mongolian empire building, the Pahlavani traditions of ancient Iran were introduced to the Indian peninsula.
Later, during another period of empire building, the British came to admire what they ended up calling Indian clubs. Throughout the remainder of the 19th century, club swinging became immensely popular in the West and remained an integral part of our physical culture until it fell out of vogue in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Although club swinging goes back at least as far as ancient Egypte, the physical culture of the Indian peninsula provides the most well known ancenstor of modern Clubbell athletics.
Indian clubs derive their name from the much larger and heavier objects of similar shape traditionally used by martial artists and Kushti wrestlers in India to train for strength. The practice of swinging such clubs to develop physical fitness was first introduced to England by British soldiers who had studied the discipline while stationed in India during the 1800s.
Category: Image - :CarteDeVisiteSimDKehoeLate1800s.jpg|thumb|right|Carte de visite of Sim D. Kehoe, who brought Indian clubs to the United States from England
They were exceptionally popular during the health craze of the late Victorian era, used by military cadets and well-heeled ladies alike, and even appeared as a gymnastic event in the 1904 and 1932 Olympics. Gymnasiums were built just to cater to club exercise groups. The popularity of the Indian Club waned in the 1920s and 1930s as organized sports became more popular. Regimented exercise routines, like those requiring Indian clubs, were relegated to professional athletes and the military, who had access to more effective and modern strength training equipment.
While torches and other sticklike objects have been used in juggling for centuries, the modern juggling club was inspired by the Indian club, which was first repurposed for juggling by DeWitt Cook in the 1800s.
There are current physical fitness enthusiasts who have revived the popularity of Indian clubs in the modern day, citing the aerobic exercise and safety advantages over traditional free weight regimens. There are nostalgic replicas of the original clubs being manufactured, as well as modern engineering updates to the concept, such as the Clubbell.Clubbell Training, stumptuous.com
2009: The Year of the Clubbell
What do you think of the Clubbell? Would you try the Trial-by-Fire?
My prediction:
CoachSteer, at 12pm on December 17, 2008 predicts:
2009 is going to be the year that the Clubbell becomes a household name. The writing is on the wall. The advantages of the Clubbell are no longer a secret. Word is spreading fast. So watch out world, 2009 is the Year of the Clubbell!
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Did I Miss Anything?
Is there someting else you need to know about the Trial by Fire?
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- Adam Adam Nov 21, 2007 @ 1:58 pm
- Yep, the technique is correct. But these clips are from an actual Trial by Fire where I am trying to achieve high volume. That means they are more of a "performance" version than a "technical" version. Thus, I am cutting corners wherever I can and using the most efficient movement possible.
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- Mitch Mitch Nov 21, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
- Hello.
I was wondering if those are the correct techniques to perform the exercises? It seems to me that Dr. Sonnon shows them differently in the clubbell training DVD. Your mill is especially different from his, as is the hammer swing.
If you get a minute, perhaps you could explain this.
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