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Tips for Pull Up Technique

It was only in the past 6 months, having been on a raw living food diet and having one intense personal training session with R. James Oliver, that I was finally able to do pull ups, an absolutely awesome bodyweight exercise. In the video below, Adam Steer, co-creator of Bodyweight Exercise Revolution, gives some useful [...]

Is it possible to heal your own vision? An alternative to corrective lenses or eye surgery.

Several people who know me have noticed that I haven’t been wearing my corrective eye glasses lately. This is in an attempt to heal my eye sight naturally. There are various methods for doing this, but they all trace back to the observations of William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 – July 10, 1931) “an [...]

Look Sharp: How to Tie a Windsor Tie Knot

An important life skill for looking your best is learning how to tie your own tie. It’s important that you practice before you need to look sharp and impress Below is a video showing how to tie a Windsor tie knot: For diagrams and additional information, please visit the Windsor tie knot page on Tie-a-tie.net. [...]

The Real Fun Begins When the Snow Starts to Melt: Chris Turner of The Ring Finders Discusses ‘Heat-Holes’ at Cypress Bowl

December 2009 & January 2009 was a particularly bad snow year in the Greater Vancouver Area of British Columbia, Canada. As the snow was melting, I found quite a bit of loose change as I went about my business around town. If I recall correctly, I found between $12.00 – $18.00. I mentioned this to [...]

The Soundscapes of Steve Roach

Last year sometime I discovered the musical works of Steve Roach and I’ve been a huge fan of his work ever since. So much so, that back in February I held a music listening party where I played the music of Steve Roach for 6 hours straight. I just came across the following video on [...]

Geoff Peters Trio Releases Music Video for Quiet Night

UPDATE: You can now purchase Quite Night by the Geoff Peters Trio on CDBaby as a physical CD or as individual track MP3 downloads. ———– The Geoff Peters Trio, a Vancouver-based jazz band consisting of Geoff Peters on piano, Mark White on bass, and Greg Murray on drums, has just released a video for the [...]

Demonstrations of three essential bodyweight exercises on Power-Fitness site

In a recent post I discussed Hindu pushups and bodyweight exercises as a way of achieving functional strength-endurance. While looking for demonstrations of the proper form for the “Royal Court” exercises as taught by Matt Furey in his book Combat Conditioning: Functional Exercises for Fitness and Combat Sports, I came across the following site: http://www.power-fitness.info [...]