Petri Aspvik

excellent and important subject matter, and I have never seen anyone else touch on this before. kudos for bringing it to light. my gf thinks i'm going deaf because i'm getting old(?!), but i blame it 50% on the invention of the Walkman and 50% on holding a hot-rodded doorbell in my ear for countless hours.
i believe any type of cardio is important whether it be lifting heavy things of karate kicks or whatever. marcus is right, it is incredibly easy to put on weight in what we do. personally i go for swimming, skating and recently have started running as well.

Read it man. Its not long :P We touch on the mental aspect but the weight is on physical stuff. And this is just the first one, plenty more to come.

Petri that was great!

this is awesome dude!
My husband and I have discussions about this kind of thing all the time. Like what kinds of things should I send him for lunch and what's the best kind of chair to buy and all that same stuff as in the article.
I'm glad he mentioned the hearing loss from the constant machine noise. My dude is known everywhere he's worked for having some really loud machines and I have long thought that it's caused hearing loss.
My man had been into juicing for a while now and I'm starting to get into a bit too. Usually I'll bring him a big jug to the shop and he says it really helps.
Looking forward to seeing more!

Its all very intertwined I'm glad they touched on diet as well as thats a crucial factor in anything we do.

I've been working on for a article series for TAM about tattoo artist and how they maintaing their health for quite some time now. It was originally going for the mag as a huge article, but its going for the blog now. The first one is up. Marcus Kuhn
Health Issues With Tattooing (Marcus Kuhn) « TAM Blog
More to come!
ps. They asked for a profile pic, that was the only one I had around :D

I've been working on for a article series for TAM about tattoo artist and how they maintaing their health for quite some time now. It was originally going for the mag as a huge article, but its going for the blog now. The first one is up. Marcus Kuhn
Health Issues With Tattooing (Marcus Kuhn) « TAM Blog
More to come!
ps. They asked for a profile pic, that was the only one I had around :D

I've been working on for a article series for TAM about tattoo artist and how they maintaing their health for quite some time now. It was originally going for the mag as a huge article, but its going for the blog now. The first one is up. Marcus Kuhn
Health Issues With Tattooing (Marcus Kuhn) « TAM Blog
More to come!
ps. They asked for a profile pic, that was the only one I had around :D

I've been working on for a article series for TAM about tattoo artist and how they maintaing their health for quite some time now. It was originally going for the mag as a huge article, but its going for the blog now. The first one is up. Marcus Kuhn
Health Issues With Tattooing (Marcus Kuhn) « TAM Blog
More to come!
ps. They asked for a profile pic, that was the only one I had around :D

been meaning to get a healed pic of this up. scott sylvia started this one on me (outline + shading) last fall SFO convention...finished a few weeks ago. craaaaazy fast and scott was a real gent - got me in for an additional session 2nd day to finish up. totally stoked with how it turned out and the overall experience in general...

WE HAVE A WINNAH!!!!!!! Good goin Kylegrey! It's Nick Colella at "Under the Needle" an exhibit/ art show and Live demonstration of the art of tattooing. The art was still tryin to hitch an elevator ride at that point in time.
More pic's of painted walls to come from this event.

This thread isn't complete with out Kahlil Rintye. Fucking amazing stuff!

Ed Hardy's Tattoo City - Kahlil Rintye

Completed my first GORUCK Challenge today. 13 hours, 14 miles with a 40 pound pack carrying all sorts of fucked up things around, walking down Van Ness without socks or shoes, and more push ups and flutter kicks than I can remember. And a few trips into the ocean.


I suggest trying one out when it comes to a city near you. They are going international as well.

headband brothers
Here is the Scott Harrison one. Click on Harrison, then moving pictures, then Blowguns, Beachwhistles, etc...
I especially love the Mike Malone story.

According to Marcus' plans, it shouldn't end any time soon though they won't come out as often as Tattoo Age did...

I won't even get in to what happened after I showed Roy Cooper my Tiger collection.

I think all the great artists put as much in.

Have you been to Hawaii? I'm here now and it's paradise, doesn't get much better......

I think all the great artists put as much in.

Yeah. And I find it to be mentally better. Im my moms care taker and spent daily, give or take 18-20 hours with her. Still, the weekly (if it isnt rest week, which I also welcome as a part of training) deadlift etc. session is something that I cant wait. It gives me mental strenght by just imagining it. Go in, warm up, lift and leave. If I was doing 8-12 machines I would kill myself :D

Been reading some Pavel Tsatsouline stuff on kettlebells. I think it's his original book in fact - 'Russian Kettlebell Challenge' (I also have 'Enter the kettlebell' which, incidentally, is the better of the two).
Pavel writes (at least, I assume it's really Pavel) in an entertaining way but I can't help but roll my eyes every third line. It's the needless hyberbole he resorts to. Everything is either for mewling girly men or it's a badass russian-approved method that will take the injured and weak and turn them into men hewn of pure iron with eyes that shoot bullets and hands that have AK-47s for fingers. He's advocating some proven and well-regarded training protocols and movements (grease-the-groove, ladders, a lot of well-chosen exercises etc) - why all the spetsnaz-related B.S?
Well, I guess it's both entertaining and has been proven to work for him, so it's a moot point.
Anyway. Seems to me there has been a gradual change in some RKC technique over the years. in the book I was looking at today it seems to me that Pavel is photographed at the bottom of the swing with his 'head up' (his word) and looking directly ahead. He references not looking 'down' because this can lead to the rounding of the back and injury. Nowadays it seems like many are aware of the need to 'pack the neck' to avoid shear force on the neck and more and more I see RKC guys and others trying to maintain a more neutral neck position on their swings - that is, they're not quite looking down but they're not breaking the alignment of the lumbar / thoracic spine and cervical spine the way Pavel seems to in these early photographs.
I guess stylistic changes do come in, taking account of current best practice, in RKC, which is commendable.
Anyway, inspired by all this I did a KB conditioning session at lunchtime for some variety.
Warm-up
-Some super light high volume one-arm swinging to warm-up (12kg KB)
-Halos around the head with the 12kg to warm up the shoulders a little more
-Some wall slides, again for the shoulders
-Scap push-ups, as above
-Some light snatching
For the workout I did a few blocks of seperate 'work'-
-12 minutes of one-arm swings with the heaviest KB in the gym... A 16kg. Simply not heavy enough, but basically I just tried not to stop and make the 'pop' up from the bottom extra explosive. The few times I did put the bell down I jogged for active recovery. A 24kg would have worked better for this but it still got my heart going.
Then rested two minutes and
-Another 12 minutes of single arm snatches with the 16kg. This annoyed me because the limiting factor was simply my palm getting shreddded. An element is possibly slightly dodgy technique on the downward swing, but it's also simply because I'm not doing any snatching anymore and my hands are soft in the wrong places now.
Some more rest and then
-5 sets of 10/10 walking lunges with a 12kg in each hand, superset with single leg RDLs with the 12's. Still too light but screw it.
Finished off 5 minutes of non-stop turkish get-ups with the 16kg, focusing on form and alternating hands. Felt like this was OK weight-wise. I've done TGUs with the 32kg in the past but I think my shoulders would need to work up to that these days.
Some core work to finish- planks.

North American Gnostic Book of The Living

Yeah. And I find it to be mentally better. Im my moms care taker and spent daily, give or take 18-20 hours with her. Still, the weekly (if it isnt rest week, which I also welcome as a part of training) deadlift etc. session is something that I cant wait. It gives me mental strenght by just imagining it. Go in, warm up, lift and leave. If I was doing 8-12 machines I would kill myself :D

Yeah it all goes back to the perfect program stuff you mentioned earlier , simple no smoke and mirrors find what works and destroy yourself with "form" in the words of my man @hogg .

Heres a sample of how Karwoski trained .
Bas' Barbell: Kirk Karwoski Training Routine