All right. Here we go. What's up man? How are you?

Joe great to be a show. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure to meet you and an honor. I've been

following your work for a long time man. I mean I was first introduced to you and

your methods by Steve Maxwell who was a you know a huge proponent of the kettlebell

and then I started getting into your videos.

Yeah, very good.

And I started getting into your videos and I've read your books and so for me, it's an honor.

My pleasure.

How long have you been teaching and practicing with kettle bells?

Since you're a little?

Something like that. Medium.

It's kind of like baseball, you know.

It's pretty common in Russia.

In the Soviet Union, yeah, it is. Why didn't

it catch on here until you came over here? You know what? I don't think people

really tried. I don't think people really understood

that it would catch on and I did not think it would happen either. So I'm sitting with my friend

Marty Gallagher having stakes years back. Marty is a former coach for Powerlifting

team USA and coach of some toplifters. And you were just trading old

war stories talking about stuff and I tell them about kettle kettle bells and says well you've got to teach Americans

how to do that and I said Marty you don't understand the stuff is too hard nobody's going to want to do

this and he said you don't understand people want to do this and I wrote an article

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