The couch thread

[The Ginger Beard Man]

Mines.
Niggas.

[Protobuilder]

Whoses

Fine, carry on.

[Gin Master]

When HQ is a smoking hole and even the sycophants desert them, people all over the country will be still be doing shitty oly lifting, and drinking beers afterwards.

Speak for yourself. I will continue to lift shittily and drink beer afterwards.

[Mountebank]

Here is a template for couch's letter to the community when he needs it. Written by John Friend, the Anusara yoga founder...

Dear Teachers and Community,

It has been a long, painful, confusing month plus for our beloved Anusara yoga community, and for that I wish I could personally and sincerely apologize to each one of you.

Understandably, there is still much confusion about the allegations that precipitated this upheaval and where we should all go from here.

Because of the privacy of others involved and the complexities of the situation, it has been difficult to communicate openly during this time. So thank you for your patience.

In order for the Anusara yoga community (and those who have left it) to heal and move forward, it is imperative that I address the allegations, as well as report on the work being done to help evolve Anusara yoga into a new, more sustainable paradigm. My statement here is offered in sincere hopes of bringing as much clarity as possible.

With the help and encouragement of others I respect and sometimes disagreed with, I have suspended my public teaching as of February 20th to allow for a needed period of self-reflection. In this past month, I have been listening intently to countless valuable suggestions from various segments of our community for restructuring the organization, which I acknowledge as something that is overdue.

With respect to management, I have resigned as a director and officer of the company. We are working toward potentially transferring the ownership of the company to a third party who is not connected to me personally or to my staff, yet continues to be within the community.

***********

With respect to the allegations that have been made and other criticisms, I offer the following:

I take full responsibility for being out of integrity in my intimate relationships. I have entered into intimate relations with married women. I am deeply remorseful about my actions in this regard. I will never violate these sacred boundaries again.

I recognize that there is a fundamental power differential between student and teacher, and employer and employee. Over the 15 years of Anusara’s history, there were students, who at one point were employees, with whom I was intimately involved. I have earnestly tried over my years of teaching to honor the integrity of my relationships with students. Nonetheless, there were times when I failed in that effort. Even then, however, I was careful and respectful when entering into closer relationships and only after years of cultivating deep trust and friendship with those students. There was never a rush into any of these relationships. My former wife, to whom I was married for 10 years, was initially a student of mine.

Regarding the charge that I am a “sex therapist,” I am absolutely not a sex therapist. I once described the nature of a private relationship as therapy in an effort to hide the relationship, and this was both wrong and the source of the false label.

The speculation that I am a drug trafficker is ludicrous and untrue.

Since I was 15 years, old I have openly practiced and belonged to non-traditional spiritual groups dedicated to bringing positivity into the world through healing prayer circles. I have never had sex during ceremony within these circles. I have never been part of a “sex coven.”

The charge that there was illegal action with the company’s pension fund is simply not true. There was an honest mistake in the administration of the pension plan, which has been corrected. We have verified that it complies with all legal requirements.

Now that there is the beginning of a genuine plan in place for moving Anusara yoga forward independent of my management, I am taking a sabbatical to embrace a process of self-awareness, transformation, and healing. I will be on teaching hiatus and have sought out professional therapists who are helping me on my path.

Those who are angry with me have helped me back to the path as much as those who have supported me—and to all of you, I am grateful.

My best to each of you,
John Friend

[j-cubed]

Looks like the "Cheat on your GirlFriend not on your Workout" ad made it to many of the news outlets. They didn't credit WGM though as the creator ;-)

Huffington Post Here

If only askpukie.com and his facebook persona were still around.

[TerryB]

Crossfit has to be consumed completely by Reebok because Crossfit on its own is not ready for the big time. Could you imagine a Glassassination against a public campaign by GLAD or NOW? The Brain Trust of Glassman, Castro, Saran, and Budding would get swallowed whole.

[___________]

*****

[Alfred_E._Neuman]

Looks like the "Cheat on your GirlFriend not on your Workout" ad made it to many of the news outlets. They didn't credit WGM though as the creator ;-)

Huffington Post Here

If only askpukie.com and his facebook persona were still around.

And not one mention of @fit in the article.

[Protobuilder]

Looks like the "Cheat on your GirlFriend not on your Workout" ad made it to many of the news outlets. They didn't credit WGM though as the creator ;-)

Huffington Post Here

If only askpukie.com and his facebook persona were still around.

And not one mention of @fit in the article.

A shame- Reebok is handling things the way a company with a PR Department does. It would be far more interesting to see an anonymous Internet clown handle a targeted protest.

[Yes, I'm drunk]

Looks like the "Cheat on your GirlFriend not on your Workout" ad made it to many of the news outlets. They didn't credit WGM though as the creator ;-)

Huffington Post Here

If only askpukie.com and his facebook persona were still around.

And not one mention of @fit in the article.

To be fair, it was Reebok's mistake, not @ssfit's, so it's only fair they own it, so to speak.....

[tzg]

That's the lame thing about anonymous shit-talkers like Pukie. They often self-immolate because they overstep themselves. They overstep themselves because they think they are not displaying their true face. This was a spectacular self-immolation. The only thing lacking is the real names. Douchenfreude would be maximized if we got to see a public immolation, a jorb lost, something. Oh well, not that important.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Will one of you shitheads out the pukieguy already?

[Holland Oates]

Will one of you shitheads out the pukieguy already?

We all know Glassman was one of the puppeteers.

[Protobuilder]

Will one of you shitheads out the pukieguy already?

We all know Glassman was one of the puppeteers.

When he was too drunk or hungover to post who was doing it?

[kreator]

Will one of you shitheads out the pukieguy already?

We all know Glassman was one of the puppeteers.

When he was too drunk or hungover to post who was doing it?

Budding or Greene are my guesses.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

brian mulvaney was teh name beign tossed around

[Mountebank]

brian mulvaney was teh name beign tossed around

Apparently, some old-time and big-name excommunicated @Fers got together and discussed Pukie's posts to see who they thought it was.

Their conclusion was that it was couch, Mulvaney, and a little bit of Mulvaney's wife.

[baffled]

Who are Greene and mulvaney? Should I hate them?

[Mountebank]

They are @F propagandists and kool-aid chuggers. If you feel the need, check out their articles in the @FJ. If you hate on @F, they should be included.

[Mountebank]

And to this day they are still ripping off Dan John and not giving credit...
Keeping the Goal the Goal

March 18, 2012
“My only role as a coach is just to keep reminding people there’s only one important thing and everything else is distraction … . My job as a coach is to make sure that behavior matches the goal, because I can only change one or the other.”

[Testiclaw]

Wow, that's hella lame.

I don't have many guru's on pedestals, but DJ's definitely on one.

For shame, for shame.

[Gin Master]

And to this day they are still ripping off Dan John and not giving credit...
Keeping the Goal the Goal

March 18, 2012
“My only role as a coach is just to keep reminding people there’s only one important thing and everything else is distraction … . My job as a coach is to make sure that behavior matches the goal, because I can only change one or the other.”

I'm a big fan of DJ, but he gets quoted on a lot of stuff that's been around for decades. The goal/goal thing--and its various iterations--is one of them. Besides, if any coach or trainer does not intuitively understand this concept, they need to get out of the business.

[WildGorillaMan]

I'm a big fan of DJ, but he gets quoted on a lot of stuff that's been around for decades.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

[Mountebank]

Lulz to the concept that @F has a "single goal" that can be pursued.

"Uh, yeah, I want to improve my fitness across all ten physical capacities and increase my work capacity across broad time and modal domains, and be bigger than a bodybuilder. Is that a good goal, coach?"

[Gary John]

The dog ate my last post.

My point was Dan writes tons of stuff, credits tons of people. The goal thing isn't new.

Then I busted on X-fit for specificy (close enough) is for insects.

Then ranted about they should just go rip off an Achilles box jumping.


It was beautiful, but now floating aimlessly in a parallel universe.


Which reminds me, what happened to all the L-sits?