Kettlebell Swing American versus Russian

I took a 2 day workshop with the Evil Russian Pavel Tsatsouline on Kettlebell training (basically 8 hours a day of swings and Turkish Get Ups) in 2009. The particular swing he teaches is aptly named the Russian swing and stops at eye level. The other popular swing is the American swing which travels up and over head. In our program we use both. They both have their strengths. Here is a great article summing up the differences and strengths and uses for each.

http://xbodyfitness.typepad.com/xtra/2009/08/ending-the-swing-controversy.html