Take your Indian Clubs for a Walk
Take your Indian Clubs for a walk. I walk every morning, before swinging clubs, and I consider myself very fortunate to live within 10 minutes walk of Kings Park and its Botanic Gardens in Perth.
Kings Park
Kings Park is a massive 400-hectare park in the centre of the city, two-thirds of the park is dedicated to natural West Australian bushland and provides a haven for native diversity of wildlife and plants.
Aboriginals and Early Settlers
It never ceases to amaze me on walking through the bush sections of the park, how the local aboriginals and early settlers managed to find their way through the overgrown vegetation, as it is really very dense and daunting, which means you can easily lose your way.
The Sweeping Views
It is 6 AM, just after dawn and in the first part of the video you can see the sweeping views of the Swan River, Narrows Bridge, the city’s skyline on the left and Darling Ranges to the east. In the background, you can hear a lively dawn chorus of birds preparing for the day.
I’m afraid I don’t know what the name of the bird is that appears in the video, but it certainly wasn’t scared off by my swinging clubs in close proximity.
Playing with my Shadow
I walked from the lookout point, past the War Memorial where the lawns are being prepared for the upcoming Anzac Day. The lush green of the freshly cut lawns suddenly made me aware of my long shadow. This gave me an idea to just try and video the movements of the shadow whilst swinging clubs. My camera has a wide angle lens, and you will see a massive distortion in the video footage.
Sagittal Swing
Finally, I came to a very high limestone wall, which inspired me to do a sagittal swing with the wall in the background, you can see this at the end of the video.
Backpack
I carried my Indian Clubs in a small duffel bag that I can wear as a backpack. The clubs I used in this video are a replica of the Sim D. Kehoe Indian Clubs first made in the late 1800s. My clubs are made from recycled local West Australian hardwood called Jarrah.
