The couch thread

[Holeyfraggaroley]

She must have a softspot for you WGM. Your post is up. Someone else got shot down though. Maybe it was BBoi.

[Fat Cat]

I wonder if she likes a little bit of sexy choking.

[Elk]

They all do. It's part of their whole rough sex safe rape fantasy trip. And happy to oblige.

[WildGorillaMan]

They all do. It's part of their whole rough sex safe rape fantasy trip. And happy to oblige.

And you guys wonder why they never return your calls.

[johno]

Amaya canned her blog BECAUSE she couldn't decide if she liked all the IGx comments about how hot and thick she was, or if she felt you bastards were creepy stalkers who wanted to wear her skin like a sundress.

Action says the latter is what she settled on.

Snowangel said pretty much the same thing to me. You guys need to get a grip sometimes.

Sez the guy with the soft porn site.

For Snowangel & the others, it's an Age Old dilemma: How to flaunt it to get the attention they want, yet shut down the undesirables?

[TerryB]

All girls like to be spanked. Just not too hard.

[WildGorillaMan]

Does this mean none of you are going to buy a t-shirt?

[Blaidd Drwg]

All girls like to be spanked. Just not too hard.

Sooth.

[Jag Panzer]

Attention whores engage in market transactions just like the trade for any scarce and valued goods. They only want to exchange their product for what they consider an equivalent scarce and valued good.

It's the same reason sluts at the club get all whored up, but get angry when a guy "beneath" them hits on them. That's not the transaction they're looking for.

[Fat Cat]

Bitches love attention and there's always a replacement for the one that gets difficult.

[Mountebank]

Does this mean none of you are going to buy a t-shirt?

@F attention whores are going to snap those up. You should put some glitter or some other attention-whore-friendly-"LOOK AT ME!!!" stuff on them. You could make a mint.

[HeiptyHop]

Tamara Cohen is now bawwwing about her supposed SLAP tear and potential for surgery. Barely a year on CrossFit.

[lasalle]

Does this mean none of you are going to buy a t-shirt?

$29.95! @Fit style pricing.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Tamara Cohen is now bawwwing about her supposed SLAP tear and potential for surgery. Barely a year on CrossFit.

what the fuck does bawwwing mean?

[Sassenach]

And what the fuck is a SLAP tear?

[WildGorillaMan]

And what the fuck is a SLAP tear?

It was the kitchen gadget that they killed Billy Hayes for to keep him from revolutionizing the kitchen gadget industry.

[MacGyver]

And what the fuck is a SLAP tear?

An injury to the shoulder cartilage. Superior Labral Anterior-Posterior tear.

[Sassenach]

And what the fuck is a SLAP tear?

An injury to the shoulder cartilage. Superior Labral Anterior-Posterior tear.

Hmmm, I was thinking the injury of choice among Andro Broads: Superior Labia Andro-(pajama) Postulating tear.

[Mountebank]

SLAP tears are the result of kipping pull-ups, there is little doubt. Even back in 2005, the mechanism was pretty obvious to anyone who looked far enough:

Re: labrum tears

There are three main mechanisms for SLAP (superior labrum anterior to posterior) tears:
1) falls onto an outstretched arm
2) overhead throwing (especially during deceleration phase)
3) traction injuries -- catching yourself with arm overhead during a fall, pulling hard overhead, water-skiing, and dislocations

So, I can see that kipping could be the culprit for a labral tear. A slightly out of control catch at the bottom plus an individual susceptibility, plus a hefty dose of bad luck and there you are. So, it might indeed have been how Neill tore his. That's not to say that you're going to tear yours, though, even if you kip all day everyday. But it's a risk.

Outstretched arms with traction and deceleration? It's the SLAP trifecta!

And then couch says, in a moment of clarity:

The kipping pull-up and the squat are the two closed chain kinetic exercises that elevate an athlete's center of mass with optimal efficiency. Period.

Avoiding the kipping pull-up does for arboreal locomotion what avoiding the squat does for bipedal locomotion - renders you physically impotent.

I can only laugh as non CrossFitters avoid the kip and we watch our crew continue their march past the fitness of all others.

I'd like to see the kip remain anethema to our non-thinking, non-CrossFitting friends, but I'm a dick.
Comment #16 - Posted by: Coach at December 31, 2005 7:13 AM

[TerryB]

The kipping pull-up and the squat are the two closed chain kinetic exercises that elevate an athlete's center of mass with optimal efficiency. Period.

Avoiding the kipping pull-up does for arboreal locomotion what avoiding the squat does for bipedal locomotion - renders you physically impotent.

Classic couch speak! Vague scientifical sounding words + strongly stated conclusions = $$$$!

[powerlifter54]

And then couch says, in a moment of clarity:

The kipping pull-up and the squat are the two closed chain kinetic exercises that elevate an athlete's center of mass with optimal efficiency. Period.

Avoiding the kipping pull-up does for arboreal locomotion what avoiding the squat does for bipedal locomotion - renders you physically impotent.

I can only laugh as non CrossFitters avoid the kip and we watch our crew continue their march past the fitness of all others.

I'd like to see the kip remain anethema to our non-thinking, non-CrossFitting friends, but I'm a dick.
Comment #16 - Posted by: Coach at December 31, 2005 7:13 AM

This is why, despite numerous Olive Branches and quiet approaches for Peace from the @fit Cult, I continue my Blockade of the @fit gaza.

[WildGorillaMan]

The kipping pull-up and the squat are the two closed chain kinetic exercises that elevate an athlete's center of mass with optimal efficiency. Period.

Avoiding the kipping pull-up does for arboreal locomotion what avoiding the squat does for bipedal locomotion - renders you physically impotent.

Classic couch speak! Vague scientifical sounding words + strongly stated conclusions = $$$$!

Speaking as a primate, let me state the following:

Most arboreal creatures don't weigh very much.

They combine a low bodyweight with high strength to weight ratio.

Attempting to brachiate without a great S:BW puts you at risk from ground dwelling predators.

Couch has about as much first hand personal, a priori experience with arboreal locomotion as he does with muscular hypertrophy.

[TerryB]

If he said "swinging through trees" rather than "arboreal locomotion," would people still give him a thousand bucks for a weekend seminar?

[stosh]

Couch has about as much first hand personal, a priori experience with arboreal locomotion as he does with muscular hypertrophy.

Be fair, he does know something about hypertrophy.

[TerryB]

Someone needs to pitch a reality show that puts Greg Glassman and Steve Justa in a house together for a month.