Surprise at the Tribe

Today’s workout:

Jerk Max. A sentence that can mean different things to different people, but here it means putting a shitload of weight over your head, slowly working up to a weight that you can barely do once.

Funky move combo: Put a couple weird things together, and run between them. In this case, Windmill Burpees (as we call them) followed by Lunging Ninja Chops followed by a quick dash to the other side of the gym and back (roughly a 40 yard total). What’s a windmill burpee? Let’s use some photos from this ancient article written over 5 years ago:

Windmill, like always.

But get the hand flat against the ground and kick the feet straight back (sort of wide).

Then bring the feet back to where they were and stand back up.

These ain’t no picnic, so practice sans weight first. Don’t even THINK about touching a weight until the movement is smooth and pretty, or ya might very well be eating it.

Oh, but what’s a lunging ninja chop? Thankfully, I took some pictures today….

Or something like that. So now what?

Start with a 5,4,3,2,1 scheme (per side, you crazies) and learn the beauty of the Windmill Burpee. Don’t forget the run after the Lunging Ninja Chops.

Surprise at the Tribe

Early this morning I received an email from Josh Vert (who’d better be returning sometime soon, or I’ll go drag his ass from Utah myself) saying that Steve Maxwell, who just finished teaching a seminar at Gym Jones, was told by Mark Twight and Josh to stop be here on his trek to the Bay Area. Little did I know that meant this afternoon, but shortly after the Josh email I got word from Steve himself that he was on his way.

I know Steve’s work pretty well, as he is someone well versed in many aspects of the physical culture (and, like so many others, I’ve stolen quite a few of his ideas). But our paths have never crossed personally. So when Steve and his girlfriend rolled up in their van, ’twas not without a tad of giddiness that I received them. The splinter cell networking of the physical subculture is always an exciting process. If we’re to have any effect on empowering our community, we have to learn from each other, and face-to-face time contributes a great deal to an otherwise semi-anonymous process.

The cliff-noted version of our meeting is that Steve will very likely be teaching a workshop or two in the near future. Like Bodytribe, he does a bit of everything. Even after realizing what a good fit we make, there was humor in trying to figure out what workshop to run.

“How about _____?”
“Sure”
“Or what about ______”?
“Sure. Or maybe _______?”
“Sure.”

I thank them both for coming by and Bodytribe will see them again in the near future.

Upcoming Stuffs

DVD PROJECT

Yikes, there’s been a lot of filming going on recently. My December date for completion is obviously a joke, but I am aiming to finish it up soon. A bunch of local (and not-so-local) bands and musicians have been stepping up, offering to contribute music, so now the lengthy editing process begins.

WEBSITE UPDATES

I’ve updated the website with some of the many upcoming workshops we’ll be having, including a schedule for new-member orientations, the continuing education ‘Tune Up‘ series and some dates for the next fighter’s workshop and the famous Winter Strength Camp. Also the Trainers page is slowly getting updated, each trainer having a small video added to their page of what they do and who they are.

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