Everyday Systems

I stumbled upon ShovelGlove when somebody mentionned it in a discussion about that site on metafilter.

For some reason unknown to me, it just clicked. I went to the hardware store to get a sledgehammer this afternoon and even though I'm really starting it monday morning I gave the sledgehammer a try earlier tonight to get a feel for the moves so that I don't have to use my brain too much monday morning.

... I was unhappy because they only had 10# hammers (well they had 16# hammers but it seemed a bit excessive), I'm now pretty happy I didn't get a 12# hammer it would have seriously kicked my ass. I'll consider doing the mod in a few months if the 10# gets comfortable.

Welcome, Atom!

Wow, that guy grew about a foot taller!

Just kidding, pretty impressive -- as is the rest of the site.

Thanks for the post!

Reinhard

A few comments after a month of SG.

The 14 minutes things is genius, it may not be the most intense excercise you can do, but it'll pretty much guarantee that you'll do it. You just have to be patient about the results. I'm not really expecting visible results anytime soon, but I've been able to add new moves to the sets I was doing since I had extra time left after doing it twice, so I guess this is progress.

It's also fun, and since it's fun I'm actually getting up a lot earlier since I'm looking forward to doing my SG. This is a major accomplishment for me.

And I'm also kinda UrbanRanging. Funny how I never expected the public transport employees strike to result in anything good for me, but this gave me the kick in the butt I needed to start walking to work again. I'll reevaluate what I'll do this winter.

Back with SG after a 2 months hiatus (caused by both a broken rib which made SG impossible and a massive end of project crunch).

I can honnestly say missed it.

Welcome back!

Sorry about your good excuse -- sounds painful.

When I go longer than a weekend without shugging I start to miss it, too. There's someting very, very satisfying, cathartic almost, about swinging a sledgehammer around.

Reinhard