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A classic counter to the Kimura from closed guard. If you drill this a few times, and start moving as soon as your opponent goes for your arm it has a surprisingly high chance of success. #BJJ
James Pieratt is an ultramarathoner who is also very strong (500+ lb deadlift). Find out how he trains for both disciplines in the latest episode of The Strenuous Life Podcast youtu.be/BVPkwM1Ny5c?...
Good luck with them
Sounds like you go to a great school
How are you with these 16 #BJJ techniques? www.grapplearts.com/the-16-most-...
Who has American war with Venezuela on their apocalypse bingo card?
You know you’ve been paddling too long when you have a plan for running Alexandra Falls on the Hay River, just in case you ever accidentally find yourself on the brink of them in a canoe
If you’re railing against immigrants stealing jobs you better come with receipts like rejection letters for all those fruit picking and/or 7/11 customer service jobs you applied for.
Ffs
Did you know that Horst Wasel was a nobody Brownshirt who died fighting the communists for the Nazis in 1930s Germany and was then turned into a martyr. Ooops, didn’t mean to post a link to MAGA turning Ashley Babbitt into a larger… www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The Russian bots are defending Trump about Epstein now
Has RFK Jr even changed his former virus-denial stance (ie claiming that AIDS wasn’t caused by the HIV virus) yet? I doubt it very much
I saw a reasonably young man from Africa, disfigured and crippled by post polio syndrome in my hotel today. Sadly, given the insanity of the Trump/RFK Jr approach to virology we had better better get used to a lot more PPS, and not just in people from the developing world either.
Survived another one! Pulled into Yellowknife Bay pursued by fairly strong winds and a thunderstorm but all’s well that ends well. An amazing trip on Great Slave Lake, paddling in the ripples left by Samuel Hearne, Mattonabee, John Franklin, George Back, and John Richardson. #greatslavelake2025
Because you can never have enough pictures of spectacular Northern Lights! #greatslavelake2025 Check out my toughest journey ever in my best-selling book "Perseverance, Life and Death in the Subarctic", available wherever books are sold.
Tucked into the lee of a small island, trying to figure out if it's safe to do a larger crossing in a strong wind and a following sea. In the end, I decided that the risk was worth the reward, and the crossing was safely achieved. #greatslavelake2025
It's too early to be thinking about Thanksgiving, but these wild cranberries are tough enough to survive the rest of the journey and I will enjoy making cranberry sauce out of these tough wild berries when I get home. #greatslavelake2025
I looked up and saw two skinny "Emus" wading through the water which can't be because Emus are native to Australia, not Northern Canada. It took a couple of seconds to realize that they were Sandhill Cranes looking for snails and insects in the shallows. #greatslavelake2025
Today was a short day, so there was lots of exploration and bushcrashing around Camp. Such a harsh, stark and incredibly beautiful environment! #greatslavelake2025 Check out my toughest journey yet, in my best-selling book "Perseverance, Life and Death in the Subarctic", available everywhere.
On this trip there have been cranberries, blueberries, Saskatoon berries, bear berries, raspberries, strawberries, crowberries, gooseberries and red currants. #greatslavelake2025
We are now closer to equinox than summer solstice, but the low angle of the sun at this high latitude means that there is still light for a long time well after sunset. #greatslavelake2025
Not all boating adventures on Great Slave Lake end well. I can't wait to get back to town and find out the full story behind this wrecked freighter in Moose Bay. #greatslavelake2025
Look who got rescued from the water and put on a branch, and then came for a visit after she dried off and recovered from her swim! #greatslavelake2025
Tonight's campground is a series of bedrock ledges in a small, semicircular bay looking out over 100 km of open water. To me, it resembles nothing so much as a Roman or Greek amphitheater, and is definitely one of the top campsites of my life outdoors. #greatslavelake2025
The only thing better than fresh-baked bannock is fresh baked bannock sprinkled in cinnamon sugar. It's so good it needs its own name: I'm mostly out of internet range up here so I can't check but is the word "donut" already taken? #greatslavelake2025
The Northern Lights lit up the heavens for about an hour last night, and there was nothing to do but watch them unfold in slow motion. #greatslavelake2025
The low level sun and the infinite vistas on Great Slave Lake combine to make for some pretty epic sunsets. #greatslavelake2025
Everything is packed in waterproof bags, but the real secret to safe travel on a large lake is the spray cover. The only trick is taking the right amount of gear so that it will all fit under the cover. #greatslavelake2025
There are days that I'm very glad I read and re-read every outdoor book I could get my hands on. And occasionally little gems of knowledge percolate to the surface when you're trying to figure out how to solve a problem. #greatslavelake2025
I'm very aware that on a large lake, you travel at nature's pace, not your own. If the wind comes up and the waves get big then you have to pull over and wait. Fortunately there was a quiet bay with a dilapidated cabin that was perfect for waiting until the wind dropped again in the late afternoon.
For the past 3 months I've been making my way through the Canterbury Tales in Chaucer's original Middle English, so it was good to use the down time today to fully embrace my inner nerd and study the context and background of what I've been reading. #greatslavelake2025
Over the years I've had a love-hate relationship with bannock. It is a classic, delicious recipe but is hard to make unless you carry a heavy cast iron pan or an easily scratched teflon pan. I recently picked up a folding ceramic frying pan and it produced a flawless loaf of bannock today.
On a trip when I have a little more tolerance for space and weight, the first luxury item I'll add is a tarp with bug mesh sides. This creates a little oasis away from the black flies and mosquitoes, which allows you to cook and eat in relative peace. #greatslavelake2025
Great Slave Lake is at its most beautiful on a sunny day with blue skies. Currently in the island archipelago at the junction of the North and East arms of the lake. #greatslavelake2025
The East Arm of Great Slave Lake is all on the Canadian Shield, which as every serious paddler knows, is absolutely the best canoeing terrain on the planet. Water and cliffs, coves and islands, loons and bears, it's all here! #greatslavelake2025
And we're off, leaving from the canoe dock in Yellowknife's Old Town and hoping to do a lap of the East Arm of fabled Great Slave Lake. Hopefully can get this done in two weeks, but I could stretch the food to 21 days if the going is slow or the weather turns bad. #greatslavelake2025
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare
It’s often presented as a given that if Hamas just released the hostages that this would all stop, but I don’t think there’s any evidence of that. At this point I don’t think that anything else other than complete occupation and displacement will satisfy Netanyahu/Halevi etc.
Finally, at the NWT border. Excited! Only 5 more hours of driving to Yellowknife and the start of the trip on Great Slave Lake.
The week after October 7 was way too premature to know anything for sure. Some kind of military response was absolutely justified. But two years of occupation, carpet bombing, systemic starvation, and explicit plans to form concentration camps and/or expel the Palestinians make it unambiguous
I actually agree with you about this. All of a sudden every neo-Nazi cares about the plight of Gaza. But not everybody who cares about the plight of Gaza is a neo-Nazi, myself included.
When Ezta Klein is calling Netenyahu’s actions in Gaza “genocide” is he an anti-Semite as well? podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
I was thrilled to be on the Adventure Sports Podcast - check it out!! youtu.be/HJmJvvuJDhs?...
If everything goes well, it's going to be about a 2 1/2 day drive from Vancouver to Yellowknife. Fortunately, the scenery of the BC interior is just stunning at times.
This might be the last time that I try, squeezing working at the firehall, filming an entire jiu-jitsu instructional, changing the destination of an expedition, and actually packing for that trip into a single week. It's been absolute chaos, but I think I have everything that I need packed.
All the food for a two person, 18 day trip in the remote wilderness
But he was going to drain the swamp, save the children, and release the Epstein files…
Man makes plans, and the fire gods laugh...
This is just a reminder that the Fox News crowd lives in an entirely different reality
Anyone remember Pravda, the official newspaper of the Soviet Union? Welcome to the American version.
I would call it a small marmot
I’m currently packing for my next expedition: a circumnavigation of Reindeer Lake, a massive lake in the northern boreal forest. With any luck the paddling will start on August 16 or 17th. I’ll be posting pictures from that trip on www.instagram.com/essentialwil... if you want to follow along
Leonard Cohen, brilliant as always
That was a nice afternoon in the hills…
That’s true. But an Islamic theocracy was not their intent.
This is your periodic reminder that Iran was not always a theocracy, and that societies that look remarkably similar to ours can go down one-way streets when the fundamentalists take over.
How Mike McCastle worked with Colin OBrady to train his ability to execute skills under stress.
I suppose the propagandists will say that they are anti-Semitic too…
I would argue that the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of Netanyahu, and a small percentage of extremist settlers
I completely absolutely agree with you
Mike McCastle is an absolute badass, but he didn’t always have the mentally toughness to drag an F-150 pickup 22 miles across Death Valley or smash David Goggins’ pull-up record. In episode 429 of The Strenuous Life Podcast he talks about mental toughness being a choice and how to develop it.
You don’t want a strong immune system. You want a well educated immune system, and the best way to educate your immune system (ie prime it to respond to potential pathogens) is with vaccines.
New podcast episode featuring Mike McCastle: number one in a series of 4 episodes focusing on hybrid conditioning. youtu.be/DKbPjiPN084?... podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/6eD9...
Any contradictions in your conspiracy theory can be explained away by making your conspiracy theory slightly larger.
Remember, the Haitians might be eating the cats and the dogs, but the windmills are killing whales. Sincerely, A very stable genius.
BJJ requires both strength AND endurance, so the trick becomes how to improve them both optimally without burning out. On Aug 4 I’m launching a free 4 part miniseries on “hybrid conditioning” on The Strenuous Life Podcast, available everywhere you get your podcasts from.
In Iran if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life. Wait, sorry, no. That's Alabama.
Somalia: libertarian paradise… youtu.be/8Ul-Efi1Xys?...
Pronouns become the issue when the facts are against them
A wrist lock is just a heel hook on the arm… #BJJ
Have you tried hyluronic acid injections to add a bit more padding in the joint? I think for knees they typically use monovisc, but a related product (synvisc) in my hip kept me moving for years before my hip replacement
You better give me good job numbers or you’re fired…
As an atheist I say Amen to this
Please do one in Canada so that I don’t accidentally win a free trip to El Salvador coming to hear you speak
Full episode here youtu.be/3IoQ6TSLZ8M?... and on every audio podcast from Apple to Spotify to Overcast
Martial arts luminary Tom Callos came onto The Strenuous Life Podcast to discuss longevity in the Martial Arts and the paradox of young instructors, full of energy, teaching techniques and training methods that might be damaging in the long run
THIS is why science and education are important: “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire
When you’re only principle is paying homage to the cult leader… 1/3
Horrific. But the evangelicals still support him. perezhilton.com/donald-trump...
Sure they were Donald, sure they were! www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Good for you. I only saw one this morning, but it was too far away.
Public service announcement that it’s perfectly OK to give the middle finger to every single cyber truck that you see. Every one of these was bought AFTER Elon went full fascist.
Maybe at one time. Years of Fox News, evangelical, Christianity, and the decimation of the education system have helped fix that.
Wrestling up from the guard is all the rage these days, but the problem is that this strategy is susceptible to counter-wrestling. Sometimes the best strategy is to stay low and go for the so-called "unfair single" covered in this new video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B8_... #BJJ
This article asks whether tourists have gotten tired of overspending? JFC - have you considered that they might not want to support a regime that ticks every single box on the checklist of fascism, or do a border crossing that might land them in El Salvador? www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
Trump has definitely absolutely completely NOT thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell www.reddit.com/r/law/s/5Tt5...
This is important; the four levels of being a good #martialarts teacher on Ep 428 of The Strenuous Life Podcast
A Canadian man was handcuffed, detained, and locked in cell after his boat got overturned by the US Coast Guard while it was trying to push him deeper into US waters. Lovely. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
The five positions you need to get good at to have a killer top Kimura game in #BJJ
New Fighting Matters: WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO BE NORMALIZED. Steve Kwan and Jesse Walker confront one of the most urgent challenges in martial arts today: the normalization of extremist rhetoric, abuse, and unethical behavior within the community. youtu.be/jlMaDLqRdhw
Tyson Larone @warriorphilosopher.bsky.social didn’t hold back on his one-hour appearance on The Fighting Matters podcast: youtu.be/eCBIHyOqaoY?...
Do you think his white supremacist base enjoyed this little video?
Federal workers told to search Epstein files for mention of Trumps’s name. And to ensure they have lots of Sharpies handy. www.rawstory.com/the-log-exis...
Fox might be turning on Trump. They just broadcast video of some dude holding a photo of Epstein and Trump at a Trump rally. A year ago this would’ve never been shown.
Murdock and Musk will double team Trump about his involvement with Epstein, threaten to primary GOP congressmen and senators unless they invoke the 25th ammendment, and try to install techno-christo-fascist Vance as their man. 2/2
Prediction: Trump is going down. Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk have both turned on him and together control the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and Twitter. These have a HUGE influence on telling the do-your-own-research MAGA crowd how to think. 1/2
