Another Take on Useful Movements

david · Post by **david** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:30 pm

This article examines fitness from a paleolithic useful movement standpoint:

http://www.tbkfitness.org/HunterExer1.html

Sounds fun!

--david

VanillaGorilla · Post by **VanillaGorilla** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:28 am

I like the TBK site. I've checked out a lot of things there. Good stuff, indeed.

Post by **reinhard** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:41 pm

I like it. Except I'm more into neolithic. Better tools.

Reinhard

david · Post by **david** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:59 pm

How's this then:

Fill a rucksack with fist-sized rocks, put on the rucksack and walk briskly to the worksite carrying your shovelglove. Work a farming scenario using the shovelglove and the heavy rucksack. At some point you notice that the crows are after your crops. Start taking the rocks out of you bag and flinging them at the crows while you run around screaming like a maniac. Pick the rocks up off the ground and put them back in the bag. Walk briskly home. Totally neolithic!

On a side note, a friend tells me stories of growing up in Enid, Oklahoma in the "old days." His dad was a blacksmith and every year all the people in the area would get together for sort of a "rural olympics." Apparently his dad always won the "fling a sledgehammer over the barn" contest.

--david

phayze · Post by **phayze** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:34 pm

I wonder what "spear tossing" would feel like with a Shovel glove> Hmmmm . . . .

david · Post by **david** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:42 pm

A tad unbalanced, I would think.

There is a ~5000 year-old bison skull at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Half in the horn and half in the skull is lodged a wide stone spearpoint. I'm having trouble imagining how strong that spear-throwing Amerindian must have been to throw a projectile that hard--even with an atlatl.

More info here:
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetective ... arrow.html

--david

VanillaGorilla · Post by **VanillaGorilla** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:51 am

I wonder what "spear tossing" would feel like with a Shovel glove> Hmmmm . . . .

Probably pretty lousy if you were on the receiving end of said "spear".

phayze · Post by **phayze** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:38 am

haha! It actually doesn't feel all that great on the sending end either. It wound up being a little bit like "crack the whip", but the weight was on the opposite side (pinky side) of the hand, so the resistance was all funky. :\

Better to make real spear for target practice, though I doubt my neighbors would want me doing that in the front yard.

VanillaGorilla · Post by **VanillaGorilla** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:37 pm

That might raise a few eyebrows to say the least.