http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/012/006/index.html

What do you think? I have never seen anything like this before.
Jake

For anyone interested, on Morio Higaonna's Goju Ryu power training tape he demonstrates quite a few exercises with the Kongoken.

Nice. Know where we can get it?
Jake

Very cool!

reminds me of kettlebells;

awesome wow factor, but limited actual UNIQUE applications. For instance, the video ends with a sort of squat variation, but i am left thinking, oh my god, his back! The form with which he ascends out of his squats make me think that he would be better off learning how to squat with a barbell correctly.

this a flame/fight-starting comment.

i know it's cool, and it's better than nothing, but there are so many good ways to do what he's doing. Ways that are more directly applicable or less dangerous.