Gravsports

It's a fact of competitive life that the strongest and most skilled often don't win in the competition. I have won a lot of competit...

I love training. There, it's out in the open. A lot of people have this hang-up that real men don't train, that somehow if you'r...

I've been training at one sport or another now for 25+ years. I first started thinking of physical activity as "training" duri...

So I bust out today's X-Fit workout as hard as I can. I'm doing squat cleans alternating with some sort of ass-backards situp thing ...

" The need for specificity is nearly completely met by regular practice and training within the sport not in the strength and conditio...

We've all been on outdoor trips where the whole situation gets a bit sideways, or at least requires operating at a high output level for...

Crossfit should be banned. It's a drug, it's a form of self-torture, it's a damn curse on my body's weakest parts. I tried t...

I woke up this morning in a hotel room, but it took me a minute to realize that I wasn't going to put the same non-dry dry suit back on ...

Well, we’re headed northwest to try and run the Atnarko River! Five of us, boats on the roof, game on! The Atnarko is the river we flew alon...

For sending his long-time climbing project. Yeah Gord! Now it's time to get back at the training, no slacking.

I've been paddling and climbing more than normally with youth of late. I've also been watching videos, reading blogs, and somehow ...

I went to Dave Thomson's memorial last night. I was surprised as I looked around the room at how diverse the people in attendance were; ...

Dougald is a friend of mine who also knew Craig . Nice piece of writing on a subject very much on the mind of myself and some friends.

Women use a lot of nice words to describe my friend Greg's physique. Check out the picture I stole from his blog--he's built. I susp...

I can't remember when I first met Craig. Maybe while working at Rock & Ice back in the day, maybe in Eldo Canyon, maybe in Canada. B...

I've done a fair amount of running, riding and messing about in New York City's central park. But I've been worried about gettin...

Alaska in the summer is fun--back home now, still thinking about the super long days, glaciers, icebergs, rivers and all the other stuff I s...

I'm off to Alaska for a week of climbing, kayaking, paragliding and filming the same for a TV program. Stoked for that, I've never b...

Thanks for all the comments, real opinions and historical smack-talk on the last post--yeah, I remember the Wave Sports days and Chan well. ...

So I need a new kayak. Back in the day (15 years ago) I was a sponsored paddler (which meant free to cheap boats and free beers from Chan, g...