Kettlebell Joy Community Lift UP! for Keizer Pride

Date: Sunday, May 1st, 2022

Start Time: 9:00 am

Location: Salem Kettlebell Training

Address: 2007 25th St SE, Salem OR 97302

Event Sequence:

• Welcome, land acknowledgement, and about
• Event overview and safety briefing
• Instruction/Rehearsal: Snatch (or clean)
• Snatch
• Instruction/Rehearsal: Press (or squat)
• Press

From a practical standpoint, Kettlebell Joy is about lifting kettlebells overhead with respect to bodily wellbeing. On a more global level, it is about joining in a new paradigm of fitness and helping to create a new culture and community around kettlebells.

The Kettlebell Joy mission is to learn, practice, and train the overhead kettlebell lifts in a spirit of play, for physical fitness, and with regard to bodily individual and community wellbeing.

The Community Lift UP! brings this mission to life, locally, in support of causes of social justice, equity, and togetherness.

This first Lift UP! will raise funds and awareness for Keizer Pride, a wonderful local event for the LGBTQ+ population and those in community with them.

Bodily and community wellbeing are at the center of this event.

What does that mean?

Elements of Bodily Wellbeing

• Visibility: your body is seen. You will not be overlooked.
• Safety: your body is safe. You will be treated with care and we will listen to your feedback about the feeling of this play within your body to help minimize your risk for injury, disease, undue fatigue and stress.
• Belonging: your body is welcome. This is your community. There is plenty of room for you here. You are allowed to be what you need to be: to be heard or silent, to take up space or create it, to be authentically you.
• Respect: your body and its experience are valued. Thank you for adding yourself to this community. Your body’s story enriches and deepens our understanding of this work, and helps us grow together.
• Transcendance: as a community, we lift each other up to be a greater whole. We are all improved by your presence in this community.

Elements of Community Wellbeing

• Connectedness: social structures within the community offer support, enhance trust, encourage harmony, foster civic engagement, and empower ALL members to participate in the community.
• Livability: supporting education, recreation, safety and accessibility within community systems to help individuals thrive.
• Equity: values of diversity, social justice, and individual empowerment through fair and equitable treatment, education, and by meeting individuals where they’re at.
• Perpetuity: serving the future of the community by cultural preservation and civically-minded action.

Please come join us in this play and find your JOY!

I have voluntarily chosen to participate in a fitness event with Sam McLean, Owner and Instructor at Salem Kettlebell Training, LLC. I fully understand that participation in this event includes strenuous physical activity including, but not limited to, aerobic exercise and resistance exercise. I fully understand that participating in this event involves risk and that I may injure myself as a result of my participation. I willingly assume the risk of injury and physiological changes including, but not limited to, abnormal blood pressure, fainting, heart attack, heat stroke, muscle strains, muscle soreness, muscle pulls or tears, broken bones, shin splints, knee/foot/lower back injuries, injury caused by falls, loss of control or balance, or collisions with other participants, man-made or natural obstacles, whether they are obvious or not obvious.

I hereby assume all risk of injury or harm as a result of the activities specified above and agree to release, indemnify, defend, and forever discharge Sam McLean and Salem Kettlebell Training, LLC from all liability, claims, demands, damages, costs, expenses, and causes of action due to death, injury, loss, or damage.

I AM AWARE THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS LEGALLY BINDING AND THAT I AM RELEASING LEGAL RIGHTS BY SIGNING IT. I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS AGREEMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS.

*A weight ladder is an array of weights (in this case kettlebells) ranging from lighter to heavier. Typically, the lifter starts with the lightest weight, performs a single repetition of the lift, then proceeds to the next weight for another rep, and so on.

In the Community Lift UP! the lifter can start at the lightest weight, or come in heavier if they want to, as long as they feel safe doing so. Starting light and working your way up incremently acts as a warm up and in this way prepares the body for heavier weights to come.

Lifters may skip a weight, or take the same weight again, on their way up the ladder. They may take rest between weights, as long as they step away from the lifting area to do so, to allow other lifters to move through at their own pace as well. There is no specific time limit between weights, or lifts, though there will be a general start time for each lift.

Lifters may perform the lifts on one or both sides at their discretion.

Click HERE for a video about the weight ladders and organization of the event.

There are no prizes for heaviest weight lifted, so please lift with your safety, joy and community in mind, and not the weight you lift.

Kettlebell Joy is a work of love, community, vulnerability, experimentation, and hope. We lift bells not as performance for comparison, or as competition for dominance, but for us. We lift for the way it makes us feel within our bodies, in our environment, and in our community. We lift as play, for enjoyment and recreation, and with curiosity and daring.

The Pulls:

• Snatch. The snatch takes the weight from the floor to overhead in one motion. There are many approaches to the snatch, which will be covered at the event. Click HERE for a video demo of various starts and styles in the snatch.
• Clean. In place of the snatch, the clean to the shoulder makes a great alternative. A nice, powerful pull! Click HERE for a video demo of diverse cleans.

The Pushes:

• Press. The press takes the weight from the floor to the shoulder, then to overhead. Lifters can press, push press, jerk, or by any other means get the weight overhead after cleaning it to the shoulder. HERE are the diverse presses!
• Squat. Instead of pressing from the rack position, descend into a squat! Support the weight on one side (front squat) or at the chest (goblet squat). It's up to you! HERE are your squat options.

Your shirt order and email address will be shared with Freckled Bee Co. as it is received. You will then receive an invoice and remit payment for your order to them. You may pick up your shirt when it is available from Freckled Bee Co., or at the event on May 1st, 2022 at Salem Kettlebell Training.

Shirt Front

Shirt Back

Thank you for registering for the Kettlebell Joy Community Lift UP! in support of the 2nd Annual Keizer Pride Fair. We can't wait to see you at the event and are grateful to have you in our community!