Simulated Assault: My Life as a Self-Defense Instructor
Meron Langsner plays the perpetrator in reversals of attempted assault. ♦◊♦ I know exactly what her rapist said. I have it in mind as I pin down her wrists. She opens her eyes. She knew this was...
View ArticleSimulated Assault: My Life as a Self-Defense Instructor
Meron Langsner plays the perpetrator in reversals of attempted assault. ♦◊♦ I know exactly what her rapist said. I have it in mind as I pin down her wrists. She opens her eyes. She knew this was...
View ArticleThe Function of Adrenalin in Boys’ Rites of Passage
The young generation can be a threat to the status quo, or an energy source that needs direction, depending on how we meet the challenge. Old rites In our ancestral past, and within the last few...
View ArticleHyperarousal: Beyond Fight or Flight
In a crisis, your choices are limited, but it’s not as bad as you think. You may not realize the ways you’re already responding to acute stress. We all learned this in biology class. When an animal,...
View ArticleBodies in Motion: Daytona USA
Jason Kapcala lies about his age to beat death on the Daytona racetrack. Read the first story in the series, “The Bike.” All bodies accelerate at the same rate regardless of their size or...
View ArticleTake a Risk if You Dare
Bored by our careful culture of risk aversion, Ged Naughton lays down a challenge. —- I was at the beach with my niece a few weeks ago. She’s 12...
View ArticleWhy Young Men Need Safe Places to Take Risks
My Encounter with Daring Young Men A few days ago, I was driving to a nearby strip mall to pick up some food for dinner. I was enjoying an unusually quiet time, focused on the music that was playing....
View ArticleThe Greatest Gift You Can Give This Year
Embed from Getty Images Theresa Byrne wants you to be a giver this year. A giver TO yourself and a giver OF yourself — I believe each of us showed up on the planet for a reason. Along the way, there...
View ArticleBabies Aren’t Born with Courage, and Neither are Men
Embed from Getty Images When you do what you’re called to, you can trust the courage you need will follow. — Everyone has something unique and valuable to offer the world, a purpose, if you will, but...
View ArticleWatch These Guys Climb the Eiffel Tower with Their Bare Hands
— These climbers made it pretty far without dying. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the drone — which crashed and got the drone operator fined. H/T Digg.com Do you want to be part of...
View ArticleThe 6 Greatest Racing Video Games Today
By Holden McNeely In case you didn’t know, the car-racing genre of video games has been perfected! In terms of graphics quality, most new console hardware is truly hard to beat. Whether you are an...
View ArticleFinding the Light Through My Deepest Darkness
Embed from Getty Images — My story begins in sixth grade when I found myself becoming more and more disinterested in school. Not just in the academic aspect, but with social circles as well. I found...
View ArticleWhy We Run: Running is My Therapy
Embed from Getty Images — When I wake up in the morning and head to the gym or bike path, it’s clear the runners around me have a different agenda. I’m not one of them. There’s not a race to prep for,...
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