Christopher Macdougal
I love that way.this book out with the dissapearence of General Heinrich Kreipe in Crete on April 24, 1944. Its a very complelling beginning that makes the reader want to dive right in. Macdougals earlief work, Born To Run, was just fabulous and gave me alot. I can't wait to see what this book has to offer me as well.
12 General Keitel says if It werent.for the "unbelievably strong resistance of the Greeks," They would have invaded Russia two critical months earlier and changed the outcome of the war.
13 The real secret to endurance is finding away to burn fat ("one fifth of your nody"), instead of carbs. Cant wait till he tells us. I could run to China with all my fat.
Fascia, the body's connectibe tissue, is more efficient, and more resilient than b ulk muscle.
14 One must master the art of "natural movement."
18 Churchill wanted to turn ordinaey people into clandestine fighters in the mold of "Lawrence of Arabi."
23 The author tells the story of a Pennsylvania Pincipal, who out maneuvered a machete weilding maniac. The principal, Norina Bentzel, "when sshe crossed her arms and retreated, she instinctively seized on exactly the posture recommend in pankration, the ancient Greek art of no-rules fighting."
First, become master of the amygdala. This organ calculates you chances of succes in what you are about to attempt nased on previous experience. If it thinks you can you usally can; if not you shut down.
26 According to Darwinian theory, a hero sacrificing himself for his fellow man, "would leve no offspeing to inherit his noble nature."
"So, if natural selection eliminates natural heroism, why does it still exist?"
31 "Heroism isn't some mysterious inner virtue, the hreeks believed, it's a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in a pinch, they can beome a protector" (hero).
33 FOM Hitlers Amerika Bombers
36 The German airborne commamdos jumping into Vrete were issured "tabletss of Pervitin, an early version of crystal meth."
Max Schmeling, the man who knockeed out Joe Louis, would ne amomg the troops "liberating" Crete.
47 FOM The Battle of Crete tactics and strategy.
48 The Vretan, nicknamed Beowulf, began to climb the stteep mountain "and isntead of struggling, [he] seemed to.fall upward, bouncing from rock to rock for hours with n odd effortless looking elasticity" (fascia!).
58 It's "Parkour! Also called free - running.
FOM Parkour terninology and style. Rewaatch brod city parkour episode for the terminology.
65 The secret "dirty tricks" commando squad the Churchill envisioned woulf be code-named "The Firm."
68 Recruited from Shanghai were two Brits known as "the Twins". The men were Fairbairn and Sykes and they were experts at street fighting, including "how tostab a man to death with a sheet of newspaper. The two were not strong but tjey were "really wobbly," thats what made them deadly.
68 "When it comes to raw strength, muscle is only a minority partner. The real powerhoue iss our 'fascia profunda'."
70 The "stromg-men" of the 1950's were rigjt on track with the indian war.clubs and themedicine ball; it's all about elastic recoil energy.
The fibrous elastoc tissue courses throughout your body, and when used correctly, leets you martial the strength of severall muscle groups on tandem. The author describes it ass a DNA looking fiber that twists from your heals to your shoulders.
72 The fascia actually is loaded with neurons thht constantly communicate. The amygdala is one the recipients of this communication.
The actions are locked in to facilktate doing the motion again. And whatever posture you assumed to pull it off now becomes locked in.
81 Want to win a wild west gunfight? Just point and shoot. Let.the fascia aim.
FOM Wing Chun
91 learn to be instinctibe in the "trapping zone."
92 FOM pankration techniques
93 Pankration means "total power and knowledge" Pankration wentndorth with Alexander and is believed to be the basis for most martial arts. "Natural movement and.elsaticity can make anyone" a formidable adversary.
Pg 98 FOM the gallilee skull. The first neaderthal.found outside Europe.
108 The Hellenist mytjology of Kronos swallowing babies and Zeus triumphant sounds similat to tje Sumerian creation myth with Tiamot. FOM about these similarities.
115 In Greece there is the concept of Xenia and all it denotes in serving.your fellow man like "the Hero of Flight 90."
119 This Pendlebury, like Schlieman before him, believed the myths of Greece, or really tje Minoans, was actually based in reality. What a great concept.
121 Schleiman passed the torch to Evans who passed it on to Pendlebury. "All thistime a written road map had been right there." This concept when carried over to strange being descending from the heavens gives new meaning to the old "made up" stories. What if these people, in pictures and writing were justndescribing what they were actually seeing. Intriguing.
123 After Minoo's son was killed after winning all events in the Athenian games, King Minos demended retribution. "Minos forced Athens to send fourteen of its finest young men and women every year to be sacrificed to the Minotaur." I guess we know where the "Hunger Games" concept came from. In the basement of the actual palace of Minos were piles of bones of children, thought by Evans to be the bones of these victims.
124 Theseus, with the help of Adiadne Mino's daughter, slew the beast andnreturned to Athens. It was then, our author claims, "when the Minotaur died, pankration was born."
155 The hardest part about parkour isnt strength, its confidence.
161 The Greeks learned early to forage. What other think of as weeds the Greeks know as useful nutrition, like watercress "the most nutritionally dense of all vegetables."
The weeds that we discard are actually the real food that, with the help of "big food" companies has been deemed to have no value. And the crap we are enticed to eat has actually very little real food. How did we come to this state?
176 "Tara" is the strogholg of ancient Irish kings
200 This section talks about the eruption of Martinique in the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt. The note that the natives saw it coming and got the hell,out and the newcomes died in droves waiting to be told.what to do. He says the specialization of tasks in the industrial . revolution caused us to loose our inmate sense of survival.
210 Healthclubs and gyms are the biggest wastes of time and money. "Fitness clubs are the only business the depends on customers not showing up."
213 After the success of pumping iron and the invention of the Nautilus and anabolic steroids, the age of the "super-male" was born. The image of the buff pumped up super-athlete was plastered on the pages of magazines an unattainable physique for the rest of us males to aspire to. This is not physical fitness. In fact, its the opposite.
220 "Being fit isn't about being able to lift a steel bar or finish an Iron Man...It's about rediscovering our biological nature and releasing the wild human animal inside"
222 "Simple and brief interactions with nature can,produ e marked increases in cognitive control." Being in nature can actually make you smarter.
227 "We'd be helpless if we couldn't do three things; hunt gather and share. Period. That's it."
233 "Most people see exercis as punishment for being fat." Nstead we need to flip the script. We need to get back to our natural state where exercise is seen as rewarding play. This concept can be seen today in this new tradition of the "mudder" runs, where there are no loosers, the goal is comraderie and just finishing. Exercise is a reard of living not a punishment. Get out there and move. Be oa a doer and not a.don'ter. "Get off the your fat lazy American ass.'
265 Now get this... In order to start using.fat as fuel, instead of sugar, you need to just do two things; "cut out sugar and lower your heart rate." Once again I had this all wrong. I thought you had to burn all of your sugar store first when exercising and then you wold start burning fat. Wrong! You can burn you fat and.leave the sugar stores in place. And besides, when you burn off all of your sugar stores, your body wants to replace them; this is where the false hunger comes from.
273 In spite of what the "Fluid Insustrial Comlex" tells you, you can rely on your body"s own thirst mechanism to tell you when its time.to drink. Oo much hydration is bad for you and it can actually kill you. See Dr. Timothy Noakes book "
Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports
This is a must read book for anyone who seeks to know what fitness really means. Anyone can,be skinny or pumped up, but only a few acheive real fitness. This book will help you get there.
Watch Shirley Darlington in Movement of three
https://youtu.be/alxyVjbqQks
Books:
Pendlebury The Archeology of Crete
