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Sheridan's sequel to Fighter's Heart and damned if it isn't awesome. The chapter's on Dan Gable and Marcelo Garcia are alone worth the price of the book. As equally good are the chapters on Randy Couture, David Horton (My PE teacher in college) and Josh Waitzkin. I finished it in 2 days and it is a compelling read. Fantastic!

You had PE in college?

Fat Cat wrote:You had PE in college?

This isn't common?

I had to have either 3 or 6 hours of PE...can't remember. I opted for tennis and racquetball.

I hadn't heard of it, but I do live on an island in the middle of the ocean, so...

Not to highjack but Mak, back when I went to college after getting out of the suck at age 25 and obviously fit, I had to take a three hour PE course. No way to get out of it unless I had some type of disability. The intent was to make sure everyone who got a degree knew the basics of fitness and hour to establish a program. Full semester.

No PE in my school unless it was your major. Education majors may have been taking it too.

I did have aquatics which was way to vigorous for a lot (possibly all, I can't remember) of the black ex phys students.

Fat Cat wrote:You had PE in college?

Granted I graduated in '91- yes. It was part of general ed. requirements, so I waited until my final semester senior year to do it and Dr. Horton made it awesome. That summer he ran the Appalachian trail for a speed record (53 days I think, it was later beaten). He was running ultra's before they were cool and one of the neatest people to talk to. He continues to run the race he started...the Mountain Masochist 50 miler. It was so surreal to see him profiled in the book.

Fat Cat wrote:You had PE in college?

I didn't graduate but I had to have 3 hours of physical fitness at the college I attended.

Interesting...seems like a good idea to me on the face of it. So many "educated" people are in deplorable condition.

Fat Cat wrote:Interesting...seems like a good idea to me on the face of it. So many "educated" people are in deplorable condition.

It was a fucking joke. Much like anything else you get out of it what you put in and you can play the game and guarantee a passing grade.

I took racquetball and love it.

A more comprehensive class covering the basic premise of don't eat shit, train consistently, and the proper form for the most basic of lifts would much better IMHO.

Fat Cat wrote:Interesting...seems like a good idea to me on the face of it. So many "educated" people are in deplorable condition.

It was a requirement at SDSU when I attended. I took a lot of fencing (saber being my favorite), a bow hunting class, and believe it or not ball room dancing.

As for Ball room dance: At the end of a fencing class these smoking hot chicks asked our fencing coach if they could make an announcement and proceeded to announce they desperately needed men to sign up for ball room dance. They didn't have to ask me twice. Other than being forced to attend an on campus AA meeting, Ball room dance was the best fucking place to meet hot horny college chicks. I was swimming in pussy.

Batboy2/75 wrote:

Fat Cat wrote:Interesting...seems like a good idea to me on the face of it. So many "educated" people are in deplorable condition.

It was a requirement at SDSU when I attended. I took a lot of fencing (saber being my favorite), a bow hunting class, and believe it or not ball room dancing.

As for Ball room dance: At the end of a fencing class these smoking hot chicks asked our fencing coach if they could make an announcement and proceeded to announce they desperately needed men to sign up for ball room dance. They didn't have to ask me twice. Other than being forced to attend an on campus AA meeting, Ball room dance was the best fucking place to meet hot horny college chicks. I was swimming in pussy.

This.

Also had ball room dancing at my college, and it too was one of the little known hotspots for meeting girls.

Swimming in pussy you say?

i took tennis, ball room dance and swim conditioning. In swim conditioning I almost had to save our starting qb from drowning. I asked him why he had so much trouble and he told me "brothers can't swim." I had never heard that before.

African Rockfish...that's what we used to call them.

Had to drag them out of the public pool all the time back in the hometown.

Lack of bouyancy is one thing...then you had the dumbasses that would jump in the deep end who didn't even KNOW how to swim.

I had an instructor at Medic School at Ft. Sam who was a badass high speed motherfucker. He was telling me about training with various other airborne units from other countries and I asked him why he never went SF. He just looked at like I'd shit in the floor in front of him and said "black guys don't float."

I about passed smooth out from laughing. I'd never heard that shit before.

Kazuya Mishima wrote:African Rockfish

That's fucking great right there.

Shapecharge wrote: No way to get out of it unless I had some type of disability

Didn't the ears count?

Back in the 60s, U of Wisconsin, you had to take PE, but you could get out of it if you could run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes. Which was pretty ez for an in-shape 18 year old.

Fat Cat wrote:Swimming in pussy you say?

Trust me; there is nothing like dancing with fine looking woman. Not the ghetto trash dancing that passes for dancing today, but full on ball room style dancing, aka how grown ups used to dance back before the 1960's. We can blame seeahill's generation for fucking this all up. Fucking hippies!

The pent up sexual energy involved with ballromm dancing can be cut with a knife. Plus, you never know, she might be into you cutting her with a knife.