Milkwood Meels
Hand Carved Milkwood Meels made by Andrew Vogelsang
Andrew Vogelsang hand carves all his clubs, mainly from driftwood, he says that making clubs provides almost as much exercise as swinging them.
Having fun with Meel and Jori
The video is full of different movements using a variety of Andrew’s hand-carved meels.
Well worth a look for inspiration and experimentation. I have described the various exercises that Andrew performs below the video.
Exercise List
- Parallels
- Windmills
- Two club reverses
- Meel Turning hand-shaped clubs
- Inward alternate heart shapes with stops
- Reversing parallels
- Reversing windmills
- Parallels with shoulder reverse
- Front alternating circles
- Outward alternate heart shapes to iron cross stop
- Parallels to an iron cross
- Windmills to an iron cross
- Inward alternates to an iron cross
- Opposite circles on the front plane with reverses
- Meel squats with back cast
- Meel lunges with backcasts
- Alternating lunges with backcasts
- Good mornings
- Squatting front plane swings
- Back circles one club
- Cane cutting one club inward and outward heart shapes
- Fred Astaire counterbalance swings
- Mercury messenger
- Alternate mills with a single heavy club
- Reverses with a single heavy club
- Sand shovelling
Andrew’s website:- Coco Clubs
Handcarved Milkwood Meels
Andrew’s first handmade Meel prototype
