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One-armed shugging

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:48 pm
by paulrone
I was at a flea market the other day and I found the perfect complement to my 16 pound shovel glove - five pound drill hammers! Picture a five pound sledge head on a 13 inch handle.
I bought two of them and I've found all sorts of exercises I can do with them. Remember the old indian club swinging exercises? I do several of those, plus a couple of my own creation. Specifically, semaphore flags and the blacksmith.
I can't really explain semaphore, so you can google it to get the idea. I learned it as a Boy Scout. Blacksmith, though, is just alternate hammering motions, kinda like flip the lever, but alternating each arm mimicking the action of hitting an anvil.

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:05 pm
by reinhard
Paul,

Very cool! I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while.

I've actually been using my 12 pounder for some one armed moves that would work much better with a shorter, lighter hammer ("blacksmith" is one of them).

The term "drill hammer" will be helpful in tracking these down... I actually see a bunch on amazon (ignore the "hammer drills"). May just order a couple...

Reinhard