Kimmo

"The purpose of the hangboard is to train your forearms, and body builders have long understood that the best way to train a muscle is to isolate it." body builders are concerned with muscle growth, not functional strength. "Compare it to the opposite style of climbing, the very steep, “thuggish” routes of Rifle, American Fork, and Maple Canyon. Those routes depend mostly on endurance, and very little on strength and power." i wonder if he has ever climbed at af or rifle? sounds fishy.... i could go on and on, but i will say that many climbers would surely improve following this guy's advice (or a number of other climbing "teachers").

and, having read the rockprodigy article, it seems to fall into the same trap as so many "how to" books, becoming more and more didactic as it progresses, making the implicit assumption that they have "figured it out" (with a few diplomatic disclaimers to the contrary thrown in for good measure!). oh well, i guess that's what the military will do to ya!

i think everyone responds to all types of training differently, so one's "sparing" use of a particular type of training is, for another, perhaps too much or way too little. all we can do is experiment and see what works for us and keeps us siked.

http://www.beastmaker.co.uk/ pretty good stuff there.

worry 'bout yer own balls, man.

eliot was the cruelest month.

i think she was 2/3 male and 1/3 female.

think about it: we split it in our society something heavy. depending on where you grew up (america?), the school-yard teaches you quick to at least try to be all cock and balls, and if you fail the grade, you develop intellect, perhaps as compensation for cock and balls. or maybe art. maybe it's different in seattle, and cities in general, but in the country where i grew up(haha), tis the rule. maybe that's why i like norman mailer. and hemingway. used to like bukowski, but he was pretty compensatory.

? so this indian dude was talking about spirituality from an indian perspective at a sweat i went to, and his take was that dudes are ideally 2/3 male and 1/3 female, and the ladies are 2/3 female and 1/3 male. he thought that a lot of the dudes he saw were all out of proportion, either wishy washy sissy boys, or all cock and balls.

if you elide the testicular outro, he actually makes sense. and that's the problem, and it's the problem democrats and others don't take seriously, and argue against vehemently.

you lookin' to ban me, buddy?

yeah war is good if it's a democrat's war, right?

honestly i laughed out loud when i heard the news; like, wtf? he's been in office for .75 years, and done nothing to wind the wars down. he hasn't eliminated extraordinary renditions, nor torture. he has done nothing to bring fairness to the israeli/palestinean schism. and now he wants to add potentially 40,000 or more troops to deathghanistan. and then i thought of the rhetoric he brings to the table; ahhh the Rhetoric! so his demeanor is enough to bring him a nobel Peace prize? with the democrats, the carnage continues under the guise of decency. at least with the republifucks, you know the level of inhumanity you get; with the democrats, you get global complicity in a charade. am i letting my emotions get the best of me? yeah i'm pissed.

nice, but strange: you've done 50 pull-ups before, but no one-arm? it seems people hit one arm level around 30 or so.

not funny.

ummm one kweshton: what is a carpet night?

oh and crag is about an hour north of seattle, for all you bellingham people.

mid-week partner for sport.the crag doesn't have anything easier than 11a or b, and mainly harder. any day this week.

average core-climber can probly do 20 to 40.

What's the official word on whether or not they get their 72 virgins? i truly feel sorry for you.

one must understand that pakistan has an existential crisis (in an immediate sense of the word) with india.

so latest poll in pakistan shows 11% think taliban is greatest threat to stability, 30% think india india is, and 59% think the US is.

you sound like stalin with your thick russian accent.

well, since it was all over the american press, maybe he figured it was all over the french press ha too?

ok so you have one example of "these cases", and that example is hardly of the rape variety, so it's really not an example at all.