[sdiy] Bissell, Nordic walking

[harrybissell]

Since so many people have like to "wank the Yanks" lately...

I used (found) Nordic Poles in a hike with X-2.  She wanted to go for
a hike in the Smoky Mountains. Some stupid half-mile thing with a bunch
of screaming kids and old folk in wheelchairs, far eastern tourists with cameras

etc...

I refused, opting for the seven mile round trip hike to a remote waterfall.
"Wanna
hike, let's take a REAL FVCXIN' HIKE..."   Unknown (to her) was the vertical was

about 1,700 feet.  All uphill on the way there...

Going UP, I used the pole to drag her up the hill. "Just hold it like a handrail
and keep
walking"...  endless complaints all the way up.

Coming down, different story. NOW she's Ms. Edmund-fvcking-Hillary. Mistress
of the mountains.

(I should have beat her with the stick on the way down. Instead... I took a
photo of her
back at the hotel. Almost had a camera-suppository for my trouble, but thats
another
story :^)

Walking stick is good. Two walking sticks are better inho...

H^) harry

Vesa Lahteenmaki wrote:

> > >Would you say that Nordic walking is a typical scandinavia phenomenon?
> >
> >Definitely not. I'm located in southern Germany and I see overweight
> >people everywhere who think they'll lose a gram by dragging sticks.
> >
> >They better go swimming. Burns more calories.
> >
> >Rainer
> >
>
> some nordic walking info from http://inwa.verkkopolku.com/
>
> "Nordic Walking is one of the fastest growing recreational fitness sports in
> the world and has its roots already in the early 1930 in Finland as an off
> season training method of the competitive crosscountry skiers. Development
> of Nordic Walking to its present form as a recreational physical activity
> for all started in early 1980 in Finland and in 1997 the first official
> Nordic Walker poles were introduced to the public ..."
>
> I agree that dragging those poles (sticks) is the very wrong way to use
> them. But if done right it is very good exercise and doesn't need expensive
> equipment. I have got back problems from dragging the mouse all day at the
> office designing pcbs for European Space Agency projects ( the Venus Express
> launched last week for example ).
> Other benefits, for women the poles can also be used as a good self-defence
> weapon against attacking perverts ( poles arer usually made from carbon
> fibre and have metal pike at the end ), senior citizens won't fall down as
> easily in slippery conditions etc.
>
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