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Mudgar, gada, jori, meel, Indian club. Sellers use the names interchangeably and they are not the same tool. What each word actually means, how heavy the Indian originals really were next to the Victorian versions, and which one to pick up first.

Hold a 4 kg gada out horizontally and your front hand carries about 13.6 kg of force while your rear hand pulls down with 9.6 kg. The leverage arithmetic behind club and mace training, why a gada, a mudgar and a samtola of identical weight are three different exercises, and how to measure your own in a minute.