Despite whatever impinges on my progress, I am slowly mastering the genre routines I aspire to.
I own a pair -- and that suffices -- in way of set up. After throwing them about seemingly willy-nilly my bod has finally decided to synchronise with the demands of gravity and momentum and I have attained 'smooth' mode.
Nothing fancy, mind you -- just a beginning. The clubs go approximately where I aim them and I can bring them back from their reach, oftentimes accompanied by spin.
'Tis a logical move from sticks to clubs, as you'd assume, but they are seldom paired in the same physical culture package EXCEPT way back in the day -- like from the late 1880s to early in the 20th century.
I am, you see, a traditionalist: simple routines, simple tools, outdoors in god's good air. That olden days perspective has been lost and replaced with the contemporary obsession with muscle groups and bulk. And yes, a mystical celebration of the 'core'.
It's not that I'm against gym work and personal trainers but the package is a commodity that doesn't easily translate into activities of everyday living for as long as you live.
I must have had my back turned when the gym culture brazenly arrived. I was a reformed jogger.
A pair of shoes and bingo! -- out and about along any number of fascinating routes often with the camaraderie of the stride. I guess the bikey folk do that in their Lycra and expensive bicycles nowadays.
Of course, it's a twenties and thirties thing too and maybe something you embrace in your forties as the podge sets in.
I'm saying i've been there and done it -- whatever the fashion -- because I had to do'something' in the face of insidious illness making me stiff and impinging on my mobility
So my physical journey has led me where I am today. And my point is that if I was doing back then what I do now, I would be far better off toady.
Why? Because there is so much more bang for my exertion buck.I get a better return more quickly -- and it's more fun.I can do it at home and very local.
Cheap too.
The video here captures the perspective, I reckon.
Context. Flow. Simplicity.
