To do The Amazon you sit on the trapeze bar, place one arm behind your back and grab the bar the bar, lock the rope between your neck and shoulder, grab the rope with your other arm to pull yourself off the bar... and then let go with the rope hand. Your neck and locked arm on the bar hold you up so it looks like you're floating against the ropes. And since this was my first time of really pulling it off, it left a nice little burn/bruise on the back of my neck.
Here's the thing: I kind of like these strange bruises. From the welts that generally show up on the backs of my knees (from hanging upside down), to the red raspberry markings on the inside of my biceps from when I suspend myself in an "Iron Cross" (where you hang with your arms straight out in a Jesus pose, the ropes pressed against your inner biceps and the bar across your back so you're suspended in mid air) I love seeing where the new markings will pop up for the next few days.I feel like they're war injuries or something, these strange markings that people at the gym stare at and wonder about. Bruises that I drunkenly brag over when I'm with friends. Yes, the sore muscles and continued improvement are great, but these are visible badges of my successes.
Could it be that I've reached a whole new level of gay vanity?
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Only a gay man would be proud of rope burns! And only a gay man would have bruises involving a trapeze. And I mean that in a good way.
When I was little I always wanted to have scrapped up knees and elbows like all the boys who rode dirt bikes. My bike couldnt go on those trails, well, because I was afraid the tassels would come off.
I get the same marks when I use the hack squat machine at the gym. It rest on the shoulders and I have red lightening strike marks on my shoulders afterwards. Brad thinks they're hot.
No, nope, naw, no new level of gay vanity. I sincerely think it's your SCA roots showing.
I can just see you in 10 yrs time with a froofy drink in hand telling the younger generation, "No, shit, there I was" stories the like of which you were bombarded with as a young SCA-er.
Or so I'm imagining...I think it rather synchronistic that I was just telling Andy about some of the stories Greywolf was sharing around the fire, and on my boat, and how it boggled when they got all excited about an SCA war wound...(we have some SCA/ROLFers who practice in the park near my apt.)
Just be careful that you don't start a trend amongst the West Hollywood set.
Thats got to be an amazing work out. I wish we had something like that here in Portland maine. :) Keep it up Rick! Be proud of your rope burns. I starte circuit training today. We set it up at a tennis court by the ocean. Was so nice, but man did I get my ass kicked.
that other guy said hack squat. awesome. i think those photos look like evidence pics. or an american apparel ad (sans the nothing special clothes).
ps-the word verification task has the letters clildx in it and i think that's funny. very funny.
pps--tonight i have the humor of a 10 year old boy. poop.
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