Persian Meels: a full video guide to Persian warrior yoga | Essential swings & training program

We're going to look at the safety, the grips, the stance, and a few relevant cues that are necessary for efficient and safe Club swinging.

Let's talk a little bit about holding the clubs and start with some basic exercises.

Learn a building block of the Zoorkhaneh and Persian meels, the four count swing.

The second very traditional, classical, Zoorkhaneh swing with the Persian meel is called the two count swing, or double-time swing.

I will show you how to adapt your meel technique to swinging heavier clubs!

The next swing is the alternating inner swing, or the full swing, also called the alternating parry and strike.

Now we're going to look at the double swings. First, the double inner back.

Learn the outer back variation of double swings.

This time we will look at wrist circle exercise.

Learn a simple but great exercise for shoulders, the double down.

Learn the crisscross and variations.

There are 13 exercise in the program, plus what's called a leitmotif, which means an exercise we're going to do in between each of those 13 exercises. I will show you some leitmotifs now.

Here's a quick and basic cool down you can do anywhere, anytime, regardless if you've been training with Indian clubs or any other strength training tool.

Today we're gonna go through a lightning fast, very primitive, very effective, your own Shena like push-up board.

Push-ups on the Shena board.

This time I perform the complete Rostam Routine.

Let's break down the routine and learn it step by step.