Kettlebell snatch....park stylee

Picture this: its a lovely crisp sunny morning in the park and you're training with your PT whilst your dogs roll around on the grass together....when all of a sudden a random dog walker grabs you from a full on frontal pelt across the grass shouting his head off at you....!

You may be surprised to hear that this story is actually true, and happened in a local park only a few hours ago:
If it were possible to accuse someone of dog species racism it would be this man and his walking partner. As classic small dog owners they don't take an interest in understanding larger breeds, because for whatever their own reasons they are fearful of them. When a dog they are scared of interacts with their pet they often ask you to call your pet away. When you are in the middle of a tabata series, kettlebell in hand stopwatch carefully being monitored and a bad taste in your mouth left from last time this couple shouted at you, you tend to not pay much attention to being ordered to control an animal who is playing around and would be hard to collar even if it was making a nuisance of itself!
So we continued to exercise despite being told to stop doing our "silly little exercises and do as we were told". These people are the same "don't cycle on the pavement" lot in my mind, so I suppose they don't stand much of a chance of me abiding them. However, i managed to just about keep my rather gobulous gob shut on this occasion and we continued to train.
Finally the bloke was so frustrated at us ignoring him in front of the woman he was trying to impress that he came steaming over and physically grabbed my client and tried to rip the KB out of her hand, shouting at her to listen to him!!!
Like the tightly coiled spring I am (haha) I grabbed him from behind and restrained him giving her time to place the KB down and step back from him. A lot of "argy bargy" ensued until finally they moved on and we ended our session too distracted and pumped to continue....
The very fact that I have to share my air space with such a pathetic excuse for a man makes me extremely irate. Moreover that someone has such little comprehension of boundries and acceptable behaviour within a community is very worrying, id have hoped these unstable bullies would have been filtered by the system a little better into secure units or on medication. And the fact that he is the sole carer of a helpless animal is even more disconcerting.....and breath!

Thanks for showing me how to fix stuff Dad

My Dad is cool. Everyone used to tell me that growing up....of course i never thought he was very cool at all. My Dad always used to embarrass me as a child, yet somehow between teenage years and adulthood he became the coolest person i knew. I proudly display many traits and characteristics of my father as an adult....most of which i feel are completely reasoned logical views! I thank my Dad for most of my physical prowess, I'm sure my Mother wont mind me saying that, as well as a knack....all be it the way of the cowboy...for DIY.
Today my Dads hoover malfunction checkpoint list came out of my mental filing cabinet when i finally reached breaking point with my Panasonic upright. For weeks now its been loosing suction, today it just flattened the brush of the carpet hair. So Ive run through:
1:Taping all holes in the hoover bag up
2:Then replacing the bag
3:Cleaning the filter
4:Chucking it around a bit (a personal amendment to Dad's list....an improvement I feel)
5:Unscrewing the bottom bit and sitting cross legged on the floor amongst various biscuit tins full of screws, bolts and other bits and bobs.

And there it was dangling off its little post....one of the belts had slipped off....simple as that. Thanks for showing me how to look for stuff like that Dad x

Thanks to "dare to evolve"

....And Shane's clip of a Nike advert which i think speaks volumes to us all!