Gravsports

This photo is from a ski tour I did with my dad in about 1977 in the Canadian Rockies (maybe Dolomite Pass?). I'm ten years old. The gea...

I just realized that I've been skiing now for 40 years, a hell of a long time. I sorta even remember my first few sliding steps as a kid...

I'm really psyched to keep receiving photos of the Plywood Ice "Plice" that people are building around the world, really cool!...

First off, specific training rules for performance results as measured by time expended and real-world results. I received the photos of a P...

My ideal training environment has the following in it: Some sort of ice climbing simulator thing (Plice). A place to run around outside. Rin...

I haven't been writing lately because I've been traveling a ton, trying to finish my private pilot's license (maybe by December ...

Some words on shoes...

There are a lot of different kinds of pain, and any sane person tries to avoid most of them. It's human nature to want to be "comfo...

I've had a ton of fun with a personal kayaking resurgence in the past three years, thanks to a good crew of people here in Canmore and e...

The Heptathlon is an eight-sport track and field event. A friend and I were out for some heavy breathing (that sounds more exciting than it ...

It's been a lot of fun working through ideas on fitness by experimenting, thinking, reading, talking and emailing with different folks i...

A month or so ago we did a Mountain Movement course here in Canmore, which was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot. One of the participants wr...

If you could only pick one muscle or area on the human body that would tell you how fit someone is what would that area be? Pecs? Quads? Y...

Eric Oddy Photo , a whole lot more at the same address. I just finished competing in the Canadian Paragliding Nationals. Some of you who kno...

A week ago the Crossfit Games ran in California. The parts I watched were hugely inspirational, and had more "real" athletic or no...

I just finished running a four-day course on mountain movement. I'm pecking away at a book on the same subject, and I wanted to test som...

The following is my best understanding of what actually happened on the Lama trip, and then some analysis. Anyone who wants the story so f...