In IronMind's eyes, Pavel Tsatsouline will always reign as the modern king of kettlebells since it was he who popularized them to the point where you could almost found a country filled with his converts, and as a measure of Pavel's influence, other people have picked up the banner and are taking it in additional directions.

And one advocate and practitioner of kettlebell training who caught our attention recently did so because, among other things, he specifically recognized the need for a superior grip in order to get the full benefit of kettlebell training, so he has pursued both, and reaped the benefits not just of each discipline, but also of the added gains coming as excellence in one transferred to the other.