irish digging shovel
I have scoured the internet to see if there was any instruction on youtube. There is and it will generally put you in the hands of the chiropractor. Only one man offers any sound practice that uses the length of the haft as a lever and your thighs as a fulcrum point. He learned this art from his father who was a pipe layer and his stance betrays the usages of that occupation – closed with a shorter grip that would be the best method in a tight trench. He crosses the shovel across both thighs in a more crouched position than I use in digging mode. It works and the principles are much the same as I learned when I was a labourer on a building site from a 70 year old Cavan man.
shovel like a boss
Here is a short clip of myself 'I mbun sluaiste':
digging
Notice the rhythm of the sway back that lifts the shovelful easily and that the digging foot and the lower hand are on the same side.
3 comments:
Either you're a mighty man of valor or that's some nice loamy soil.
Hi John,
More sandy than loamy and after a week of dry weather light and easy to turn. Might be suitable for carrots. Hope you and family are keeping well, all are fine here, no need for any of us to go into the world.
best wishes,
Michael
So far so good here too, Michael. We've shifted to home delivery of groceries, and when out walking/running I'm more vigilant about maintaining my ambient personal space bubble, but other than that we're not particularly inconvenienced. Ireland and the US present very similar profiles for verified infections and deaths per 100K of population. If the curve really does peak and diminish over the next couple of months, at least 90% of our national populations will remain uninfected and vulnerable to subsequent surges. How to get ahead of the next curve? Repeated cycles of shut-down and restart? South Korea-style identification and isolation of individual cases via high-tech totalitarian command-and-control? Get back to business as usual, with the old and vulnerable continuing to self-isolate until a vaccine gets invented? Meanwhile I'm watching Battlestar Galactica and rereading Death in Venice...
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