What is Shovel Fu?

I get some strange looks sometimes when I tell people my email address or domain name.

I have to spell it for them sometimes.

No matter how strange they think it may be, no one seems to ask, "What the heck is Shovel Fu?" Well, it is what it sounds like. Kung Fu but with a shovel, like it says up there at the top of the page.
Shovel Fu is the ancient art of the sharpened spade, the skill of the shovel in battle.

As far as I can tell it isn't anything real but the idea for the domain name came from a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game I was playing at the time I decided I wanted a new website.

You can actually see at one point about halfway through the video where Faith dusts a few vampires using a shovel as a poleax.

I thought that was so freaking cool.

Definitely one of my favorite parts in the game and also one of my overall favorite games.

Basically it seemed like a great idea for a domain name.