Posts by 75th

  • Anyone diving the Keys this week?

    -Just looking to see if ANYONE isn't gainfully employed this week and available to either beach dive with me or going out on a boat and could use gas money and another diver (again, me). From Key West to Ft. Lauderdale: ANYONE.


    Having more experience as a freediver than a spearo, I'd consider myself a novice speardiver, especially compared to many on here. I've brought all the gear though -and will be picking up some of Dan's carbon C90 carbon blades this time, too.


    I've just finished working/welding "graveyard" on Turkey Point (nuke power plant by Homestead) 6 nights a week 12 hours a night for over 3 months and would like to get into the water for a much needed break from the welding fumes. I'm currently in Homestead, but highly mobile.


    You don't have to be a pro, as I'm just doing it for fun, camaraderie and a chance to learn from somebody else, too. Hell, I'm not even in the best of shape (freediving wise) after the long hours, so I certainly won't be showing anyone up! :) Give me a PM or call anytime. Thanks!


    Ivan
    (7O2) 573 - 4O64

  • Anyone diving off Miami/Dade this week?

    -Just looking to see if ANYONE isn't gainfully employed this week and available to either beach dive with me or going out on a boat and could use gas money and another diver (again, me). From Key West to Ft. Lauderdale: ANYONE.


    Having more experience as a freediver than a spearo, I'd consider myself a novice speardiver, especially compared to many on here. I've brought all the gear though -and will be picking up some of Dan's carbon C90 carbon blades this time, too.


    I've just finished working/welding "graveyard" on Turkey Point (nuke power plant by Homestead) 6 nights a week 12 hours a night for over 3 months and would like to get into the water for a much needed break from the welding fumes. I'm currently in Homestead, but highly mobile.


    You don't have to be a pro, as I'm just doing it for fun, camaraderie and a chance to learn from somebody else, too. Hell, I'm not even in the best of shape (freediving wise) after the long hours, so I certainly won't be showing anyone up! :) Give me a PM or call anytime. Thanks!


    Ivan
    (7O2) 573 - 4O64

  • Anyone diving off Broward this week?

    -Just looking to see if ANYONE isn't gainfully employed this week and available to either beach dive with me or going out on a boat and could use gas money and another diver (again, me). From Key West to Ft. Lauderdale: ANYONE.


    Having more experience as a freediver than a spearo, I'd consider myself a novice speardiver, especially compared to many on here. I've brought all the gear though -and will be picking up some of Dan's carbon C90 carbon blades this time, too.


    I've just finished working/welding "graveyard" on Turkey Point (nuke power plant by Homestead) 6 nights a week 12 hours a night for over 3 months and would like to get into the water for a much needed break from the welding fumes. I'm currently in Homestead, but highly mobile.


    You don't have to be a pro, as I'm just doing it for fun, camaraderie and a chance to learn from somebody else, too. Hell, I'm not even in the best of shape (freediving wise) after the long hours, so I certainly won't be showing anyone up! :) Give me a PM or call anytime. Thanks!


    Ivan
    (7O2) 573 - 4O64

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Oh, I could tell you weren't an office puke by those stainless tig welds. I'm the same way. Sometimes I have to say, "No, I actually BUILD power plants... like, by hand". I wonder if some are a little let down by that, as I obviously go from white to blue collar. Who cares, right? When our country was founded, being able to work with your hands was a thing to be proud of, as our founding fathers liked their portraits to show what skill they had (sometimes having items in the paintings that they've made).
    Like Paul Revere, for instance.


    These days (like having common sense) it's no longer necessary to be physically skilled. Moreover, it seems to garner more respect to ply one's trade with a tie and a manicure (not that there's anything wrong with that). I dunno. I'm still a soldier, I guess. I don't like to dress up much either, as I can't seem get any work done while dressed like that. (I don't have many white clothes for that reason.)


    -Not that there's anything wrong with higher education, kids. Stay in school. Life will, most likely, be easier and more financially productive (given the same amount of work, of course).


    Oh, and that's a KICKASS photo of you and Buzz Aldrin... with the whole spearfishing setting thrown in... Awesome picture!


    -And keep posting new pics of Thumper. You've got skills, my friend.

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    I knew there was something different about Don. Now it's all starting to make sense. Build on, mad rocket scientist! Work safe and don't become complacent. Do you have a sign out front of your garage displaying the number of "event free" days?


    Always think safety. 80% of all people are caused by accidents.

  • 'Born to Run' , natural steps to training

    Obviously, there's something to this, as Saucony (on their website) has a "Running" shoe section and a "Natural Running" shoe section, like there's a difference. That'd be something I'd have had to google if it weren't for this thread. As I'm always looking for lighter running shoes, this is probably the way to go for me, too. They even call it minimalist running. The Mirage 2 is what came up for me from their "Shoe Advisor". Thanks Aaron. I've been in the dark on this.


    Dan, that's fartlek training, right? It'll smoke you fast, which is a good thing. I've got a long, steep driveway that's a smoker and I should use it more. I didn't know you're a grappler. I went to J-Sect in Vegas full time for about six months and they (John, Dave Howard, Herut, Marvin and the rest of the guys -all great guys--and insanely good) got me from nada to "comfortable on the ground". I didn't work on my stand-up so much (with Skip) because I felt I needed BJJ so much more. I found that distance running didn't give me the wind I needed for grappling (but it helped keep the fat% down). Grappling/rolling's even more intense than sprinting. Just like freediving/spearfishing practice is to grappling and competitive style freediving practice is to running, the best conditioning exercise for grappling is rolling (a lot of it). We used to notice Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture roll in the cage for 30 minutes at a time with no breaks in between submissions while we're (us students) able to do it for a few minutes at a time. It's a smoker! The reason the instructors/teachers could do it longer is because they did it more than most of us (like Dave Howard: a professor of fighting--bad ass--nicest guy, too). The Gracie's (invited by SFC Matt Larsen, who was in NCOIC of Ranger Regiment's combatives & CQB training) helped teach BJJ/MMA to Rangers as I was getting out (1995) and that's what got me into it (as I was going back into Ranger Bn anyway). I miss it. I should go to Alliance here in Tally whenever I'm back home.


    Aaron, I see BJJ/MMA is military-wide, especially after SFC Larsen re-wrote FM 21-150 (Army Comatives Field Manual), a real basic BJJ lesson/foundation -so the army could actually teach it. (Because, to the army, if it's not in an FM or TM, it simply doesn't exist, right?) :rolleyes1: Keep your head on a swivel, bro! Stay safe.