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If you are a fan of unique and exotic types of strength training, you have got to see this DVD. The Physical Body is a rare and unique look at the dying art of Kushti, India's indigenous form of wrestling and once royal national sport.
For the first time on DVD, the traditional training impliments are shown being used in their native training environment in the traditional earthen pit wrestling gymnasiums. You will marvel at the strength and grace of the: gadas (maces),joris (heavy clubs),nals (stone weights),gar nal (stone wheel),sumtola (Indian barbell), Mallakhamb (the wrestler's pillar), the rope Mallakhamb and the art of competitive jori swinging.
(about 60 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on August 31, 2005 in Sports & Outdoor::Strength Training.
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This DVD is an excellent insight into the historical training of martial arts in India. The author managed to cover the training regimen of an actual school, including the practice with those exotic swinging clubs nearly the length of your body. Just seeing those exercises makes me question how Western body building for form instead of function ever came to be: the development of muscles for a competition free of strength tests. I have never seen a DVD on Indian martial arts like this, and you won't be disappointed with material so fresh.
