Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, and wood chopping motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and holidays. Baffled? Intrigued? Charmed? Discuss here.
OMG-- that's great! Shoveling could become "Burying the Corpses," Chopping Wood could become "Executing Traitors" and Butter Churning "Impaling." Wow. I am SO set for SGing next week!
I just started SG today and also did a similar motion, though i more stuck with the manual labor of the past description and thought of it more as stirring the laundry (as in when people used to boil a big old kettle and then stir the clothes around in them).
Although I find the pop-culture scenarios amusing and fun for a change, I also prefer the duller, historical labor imagery. It's less flashy, but I think it's more deeply inspiring. This work is in our bones! Through thousands of generations of ancestor repetitions, it's a metaphor that's physically a part of us. No offense to descendents of actual witches and vampire slayers, of course.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a physically great move. I messed around with it a bit during freestyle this week and found it satisfying and exhausting. I might even go regular with it.
