Improve Your Club Swinging With This Simple Trick-Single Arm Heavy Club 21-Outside Circle ShieldCast

[@peterjwilson]

the best club content anywhere

[@scottengh1175]

Like the combination move. The inside/outside circles and shield casts have helped my back and standing straight so much. I do the pendulums and pull- overs at the same weight as I work up--they seem so simple and am surprised how much I sweat with those 3 easier movements. The weight feels like it should not, but I feel traction in joints. Helps my knee replacement move better.

[@xyzct]

Ridiculously high-quality content.

[@patrickhuhn9193]

Great combination to enhance movement/brain connection

[@maxpower8052]

This combination never occurred to me. I'm gonna try it!

[@cioran1754]

This drill has me super focused on the direction change for the shield-cast, normally I probably gloss through the order position somewhat, but this reverse prevents any glossing, it's like kb stop / start drill. My main takeaway was the increased time in the order-position forces you to really test your technique ( limb alignment / elbow on hip / etc ) , crucial for going up.. Like doing these drills on non-club programme days after kettlebell / bodyweight before cooldowns. Nice drill !

[@PROFITDYNE]

Nicely done. Thank you, Mark.

[@avisilvermann2838]

Excellent instruction

[@snarbywrx]

Mill is allot harder than it looks, especially the 2nd half.

[@Bat_Dance]

Naturally, after I did this I said “let’s go inside circle/reverse cast”. It’s a fun brain game

[@mattp1511]

I'm toying with the idea of combining a single arm Shield Cast with a Swing Clean, so instead of returning to order position, go straight out into a Swing Clean and then back to Order Position. I'd love to see people's thoughts on this idea

[@cioran1754]

In the single-arm #19 video, Mark mentions the importance of the order position coming out of the upper portion of the mill ( the 180 pullover ), like always, especially when going up in weight. He puts emphasis on the fact that even when you start 'glossing' the movement, when departing from the technical mill to non-technical, you still hit that order position. And you can see in the video that when he ramps things up that elbow looks like it's still making flank contact ( or very close to ) in an order position. So, if the shield-cast in your move is an analog to the cast in that video, I'd be thinking to ensure hitting that decent elbow position before going into your swing ( front ? ). Because otherwise there's no point of reference for elbow coming out of the shield-cast into the swing.

[@cioran1754]

@@ryusuikarate fair enough, I'm thinking mainly of the wisdom of going straight into the movement, in addition with the mill you are going in the same plane and the advice is still given, with OPs move you are coming out of the sc rotation into move 90deg from it. In the comparison you made, you also would remove the middle portion ( rack position for order position) and go to the snatch maybe after you'd practiced the clean & press. So perhaps that's a middle ground, you can do it of course, it's harder say, but should you start doing it from the outset that way, I wouldn't. I'll be trying it at weekend !

[@cioran1754]

@ryusuikarate good stuff, interesting and thanks for the knowledge. There is an orthodox interpretation of the mill here then, as he states ( SA #19 ) that even though you can 'gloss' over the order position, 'it's not a mill if the order position isn't there'. Perhaps his 'glossing' terminology is what you're referring to as 'open'? It's noticeable now that in that video the order position, at high speed, is hit pretty much prior to the cast ( end of the inside circle ) but not so much after the cast into the next circle, the emphasis there is to straighten the arm before the club force kicks in. When you do your 'open' mill, do you get the elbow tucked into the hip just prior to the cast portion?

[@cioran1754]

@ryusuikarate got you, ah yes I've seen some of his stuff, I'll have a look, cheers

[@terryharris1291]

If you do not have it,try using the Mill/Squat program,as you work on 3 levels for each weight etc.You could add it your idea on level 1 and 2. At 3 workouts a week ,it would be 2 weeks on each level.

[@andrewchrist437]

Good to know not heavier club until order position is strong. How do I know when I'm ready for the next heavier club?

[@hanuom]

Can you make a video in which you can show the same exercise like halo from clubs kettlebell and mace . Plus you can tell if you can do 15 kg halo with kettlebell then for club how much weight you can do for shield cast.

[@CarbageMan]

It doesn't look that hard, which tells me it's gonna be hard.

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