A little over a year ago I published an article on lifeinthearmy.com, titled “The Big Lie About the US Army – What the US Army is not telling the American People”. In it I talk about the standards being higher now, than ever, especially physical fitness, the Army Combat Fitness Te...
Muay Thai is referred to as “The Art of Eight Limbs”; and using eight points of contact the body mimics weapons of war. The hands become the sword and dagger; the shins and forearms were hardened in training to act as armor against blows, and the elbow to fell opponents like a heav...
Lyonnesse, also spelled Lennoys, or Leonais,mythical “lost” land supposed once to have connected Cornwall in the west of England with the Scilly Isles lying in the English Channel. What does the word Vambrace mean? :a piece of medieval armor designed to protect the forearm. ...
The home was a smaller one, but still had an easily accessible door on this side. Blockade summoned his armor - a series of concave shields covering his forearms, shoulders, and chest, along with intensifying the cyan glow of his personal field. It didn't really help protect him much - ...
Herb sometimes called her, affectionately, his hippie. “My God, don’t be silly. That’s not love, and you know it,” Herb said. “I don’t know what you’d call it—madness is what I’d call it—but it’s sure as hell not love.” “Say what you want to, but I know he...
“Guys move faster if it’s distance, and that defeats the objective of keeping your grip and core under tension for longer, and it encourages poor form.” Add them to the end of your workout; otherwise you’ll fry your forearms. Do four 60-second sessions and work up to using two ...
What made Maggie blissfully happy did not have the same effect on Willie. This is just one simple example of how different dogs need different things to make them happy. On the one hand it seems ridiculously obvious to make that statement. All dogs are not alike. Duh. On the other, it...