It’s not really a “blog post”, per se, but it is about CrossFit, and the community is passing the video along. So yeah, I’m calling this a Blog Central post.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. “I. Want. To. Be. In. A. Cool. Commercial. Like. This.”
(thanks to my friend, Tom Nugent, at SnoRidge CrossFit for sharing!)
This is a pretty incredible accomplishment. I cannot even imagine flying THROUGH a mountain! “Bird Man” Jeb Corliss, does it again as he flies THROUGH Tianmen Mountain in his wingsuit!
CCTV.com gives the official recap:
“Tianmen Hole is a 360-foot-tall, 96-foot-wide, and 260-foot-long formation located near the city of Zhangjiajie in central China’s Hunan Province. Corliss will jump from a helicopter hovering at 6,000 feet and attempt to glide through the hole.”
To bring his story a little closer to home (since I’ve never been to China), here is another video of Jeb Proxy Flying at the Matternhorn in Switzerland!
I was lucky enough to get to snowboard there with some of my buddies a few years ago, so seeing this video brought back some memories!
And to remind my buddies of that incredible trip, here are some pictures from us at Zermatt!
The entire Euro-Trip crew!
It was an incredible day of snowboarding!
Eating lunch with a so-so view
One day I was talked to CFLW athlete Casey Polk and trying to help her through a difficult situation. A quote I said to her has stuck with the two of us ever since that day:
“Awesome does not mean perfect. You are awesome ALL of the time.”
Well it turns out I’m not the only person out there who believes that we’re all awesome.
Check out the post that my awesome friend Molly King shared on Facebook today (below). The blog/website is called “Redefine Girly” and it prides itself on being a blog for “Pigtail Pals” and the empowerment of young girls and women. It’s a wonderful blog and a great place where parents can come together to share ideas on how to not let their daughters feel the “pressures” that this society puts on girls these days in our “hypersexualized girls’ marketplace” (from the site). This post, however, I feel applies to every single one of us out there!
I hope you guys read it, follow it…. and BELIEVE IT!
Seriously, after you read it… take a second… breathe and reflect. Let all of your insecurities go for JUST ONE MINUTE. Realize how awesome, strong, beautiful, confident, etc you should be, and then try to carry that feeling on for as long as possible today. Give it a shot, and let me know how it makes you feel!
Happy Monday, friends.
August 3rd, 2011 | Author: melissa
There was a time when you were five years old,
and you woke up full of awesome.
You knew you were awesome.
You loved yourself.
You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.
You loved your body, and the things it could do.
You thought you were strong.
You knew you were smart.
Do you still have it?
The awesome.
Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?
Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?
Look at her. She is full of awesome.
You were, once. Maybe you still are. Maybe you are in the process of getting it back.
All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.
The author's adorable daughter Amelia, full of awesomeness!
Thank you so much to my friend JR who posted this YouTube video on running from the folks at DontBeThatGuyVids on FB yesterday!
Now, before you watch… if “lead foot with a side of mouth breathing” was one of the options, that would have to be me. But given that I need to choose one of these five, I’d say I’m a “Dandy”. What kind of a runner are you?
So good.
Seth Godin is a marketing guru who sends out daily emails to people who are interested in hearing little tidbits he has to share with us on life, success, business and more. I like them because they’re usually very short (yet effective), and I can read them while I walk from my car to my office in the mornings.
One part of his message on September 22nd said something that instantly resonated with me.
“Too often, the corporate world pushes talking points onto people, and more often than that, speakers and writers get nervous and they turn into parrots. The only reason to go through the hassle and risk of putting yourself out there is to be out there… you, not a clone.”
I’ve been writing this blog for over a year now, and I’m still trying to find my “voice”! I realize that while my voice will probably continue to change, I hope that the way in which I deliver MY message will always be MY voice.
The reason I think this is worth a unique post is so I can challenge you guys. Find YOUR voice. Find YOUR way of doing things. And once you do, stick to it fearlessly and without shame! Over the last 12 months or so, I’ve become SO much more comfortable in my own skin, I’ve begun “using my words” more to actually say how I feel about things, and it is such a great way to live!
With that being said, this blog is going to be more about ME and what I want to see. Now, I’m still 10000% interested in what you guys want to see or hear about or learn, but if I don’t get any ideas, questions or feedback, the posts won’t stop! I’m curious as to how you guys will react to me actually posting things that I want to see and not stopping myself because “no one else would care” about what I liked. I feel like there’s a part of you that comes here to see exactly that… what I feel, or like, or think.
So, here’s to me. And here’s to you. And here’s to our unique voices!
Here’s the link to the full post!
Today is the first day of fall, huh? Time FLIES! With Autumn right around the corner, that only means one thing….
WINTER IS ALMOST HERE!!!
Now, I love summertime. So much. Soooo much. Being outside in the sun is one of my favorite past times, but when that time of the year comes when the snow starts to fall… I’m ready to shred!
My buddy Jack, who runs the Apres Powder Winter Sports Blog that I’ve featured here quite a bit, wanted to take a few minutes and ask me about how I prepare (and recommend other people prepare) for another epic season of crushin’ pow.
Check out the interview by CLICKING HERE! I think Jack did an AMAZINg job! Thoughts?
And we’re baaaaack! This episode’s question comes from my homeboy and yours, Alon Avdi.
He asks:
“I want to learn more about training the mind. I believe mental toughness/discipline/mastery or just an ability to direct one’s perception is key to achieving all manner of things in life, fitness included.
So, what ways can and should we consider this issue and direct our training?”
What do you think? Does anyone else approach goals and mental toughness the same way I do?
What types of things would you guys like to see more of on this blog?
I am working on getting the September Results posts updated soon, but aside from that, I haven’t heard any requests lately.
Talk to me, friends. Let your voice be heard! I’m here for all of you!
Speak and be heard!
They’re trying to create an place of acceptance and tolerance. They hope to foster an atmosphere of not judging one another.
I’ll let you guys take this one. What do you think?
At least this news broadcast isn’t joking about their culture, either. Check out these three Planet Fitness commercials.
Did I laugh out loud at each of them? Yes.
Will I ever join a Planet Fitness? No.
Last night the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games were featured during Prime time on ESPN2 (a Major Cable network!). For MANY of you, it may have been the first exposure you ever had to our sport of CrossFit. To avid CrossFitters, it was certainly the most “mainstream” exposure we’ve ever seen given to our sport.
Regardless of your stance and experience with it, what are your thoughts? Did you like learning about CrossFit and the CrossFit Games? If you knew about them already, do you think the shows last night did them justice?
I’m curious to how you all feel about it. All I know is that I was like a kid in a candy store watching some of my friends and other CrossFit starts tear it up! I’m a very active CrossFitter and a trainer at CrossFit Lakewood here in Denver, Colorado, so seeing my hobby and passion being presented to such a large audience actually filled me with a HUGE sense of pride!
If you missed the shows last night, fear not, there are two more weeks of coverage on Wednesday nights! Check the trailer for the show below, and the TV schedule below that.
So…. what’d you guys think?!
Here's the full schedule of events for ESPN2
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