[BUSTER]

Hi all

has any body got any of Pavel's books/DVD's??

How do you rate them? are they worth the money?

CHEERS

BUSTER

[Jet]

I had most of his stuff on the laptop,but i've just bought a hard copy of enter the kettlebell and i'm buying Power to the people next.
They're the only ones of his books i'd shell out my hard-won socialist pounds for.
But those two are definitly worth the money imo.

[grole]

I have The Naked Warrior and Enter The Kettlebell.

I believe they both have good information in them although I am not totally sure if I would recommend them.

The main issues I have with them are

Price : They are IMO overpriced for what they contain

Writing style : I find his continual use of the word comrade and his play on his russian background irritating.

Advertising: There is way too much advertising for his other books, dvds and 'paveliser' in the books. There are way too many instance of phrases along the lines of 'This is detailed in other book/dvd xxx' and a significant number of the pages at the end of the books are straight adverts and order forms for other products.

If you can I would recommend that you try to borrow the books from someone else or a library before you shell out for the fairly high cost of the books.

In the end though, this is just my opinion and should be taken with a great big pinch of salt.

[Franz29]

I have "Relax into Stretching" and it is NOT worth the money. Lots of blank or half-blank pages to fill up space, really annoying writing style (for example: he explains a method then says westerners won't do it because we aren't patient enough). Talks about one method then ignores it for the rest of the book. There is some really good information, but not really anything I can't get in other more reasonably priced books, or even on the web.

Oh, and as Grole said, more adverts for other Pavel books than would seem reasonable.

[BUSTER]

Hi all

Thanks for the replys, i bit the bullet and forked out for Enter the Kettlebell, cost £14 including delivery from a Amazon seller, i have seen his books priced at over £30 before so i though this was o.k.

I'll try and get a book review done on it when i have some time

Thanks for the replys

BUSTER

[grole]

BUSTER, on Sep 1 2008, 09:19 AM, said:

Enter the Kettlebell, cost £14 including delivery

That tackles my issue on price. At £14 I would say the book was fairly good value.