The Eyes of the Future are Upon Us

Who did you look up to when you were a kid? These young people get a chance once a year to come to West Austin Youth Association and experience all the great facility's. I am privileged to join them for a 30 minute crossfit kids warm up and a little pep talk on why "Fitness is Fun"!

101X Morning Show FGB III

Carey Kepler JT and Melissa Joulwan
These last few weeks have been super busy with events new programs starting and lots of fund raising. Crossfit Central took third place in the national event Fight Gone Bad III with $28.000.00 Raised for prostate cancer.

Lion of Judah

Wikipedia Self-discipline refers to the training that one gives one's self to accomplish a certain task or to adopt a particular pattern of behaviour, even though one would really rather be doing something else. For example, denying oneself of an extravagant pleasure in order to accomplish a more demanding charitable deed. Thus, self-discipline is the assertion of willpower over more base desires, and is usually understood to be a synonym of 'self control'. Self-discipline is to some extent a substitute for motivation, when one uses reason to determine a best course of action that opposes one's desires.

The Future of Human Performance

I am a dreamer yes I am. I have a dream that some day people will believe in themselves so that they will achieve all that they dream. I have a dream children will believe in themselves so much they will be able to achieve their dreams. I set out to win the crossfitgames and I failed, I came in third. I trained my heart out eating the zone, following the wods, and running the best affiliate I knew how. I am a dreamer yes I am.

Many people will doubt me but I will still dream. 2009 games quickly approach and I will still dream of spreading crossfit across the nation.

I have one mission and that is to positively affect the world and Crossfit is my vehicle. I will pursue my mission with all my heart.

The video of my passion! http://www.crossfit.com/ HQ

Austin Deep

Ashley Daniel is a Rock Star Massage Therapist at Austin Deep. Ashley has been my therapist for 2 years. She is the real deal!

Going Vertical!

Olympic Weightlifting - Finishing the extension Coach Burgener Video
This past weekend I was blessed to work with the Austin Police Department SWAT Team. We focused on the Snatch and Clean and Jerk. Photos

Representaional Art in the Film: Local Color

I just saw a screening of the movie Local Color, written and directed by fellow So-cal painter George Gallo. I've never seen the French Easel featured so much in a film or a lead actor dropping names like Nicolai Fechin or John F. Carlson, or even talk about local color. The story is based on the director's life, as an 18 year old in the 1970's wanting to learn to paint representational in a time when the art world considered realistic painting old fashioned and irrelevant. The main character finds a bitter old master Russian painter who he persuades to teach him to paint. In one funny scene Seroff (the Russian master) is asked to judge an exhibition of "progressive" art, and after getting an obfuscating explanation about a minimalist painting by the artist, he storms out and gives the award to the air conditioner because "it's the only F-ing thing that works". In another great scene, Seroff shows some modern art paintings to an art dealer who then goes nuts over them until he's told they were made by Down Syndrome kids. So, if you have an appreciation for representational painting you need to go see it when it comes out December 5th. According to George everything in the movie really happened to him.

Check out the trailer on the apple site. You can also see some clips on the movie's website.

Anderson High Dry Land Training

Sports Specific Training- What is it? In the photo above twenty young swimmers are performing squats during the Crossfit Central warm up. I am asked all the time "do I do sports specific training"? MY typical answer is yes but in all reality's the answer is no. Crossfit is a general fitness program that develops 10 general preparedness skills that will make you a better athlete. A better athlete for what? Any sport you choose to play or compete in Crossfit Central trains marathoners, fighters, basketball players and soccer moms(aka super athletes) to be fit. The side benefits are you lose weight, feel good, and life is better!

Paintings That Inspire

When I was done teaching the workshop at the Grand Central Academy in New York I went to the Met with a group of painters to see some of the newly displayed paintings in the 19th and 20th century galleries. A few paintings I'd never seen were a Sorolla landscape and portraits by Zorn and Repin.

A landscape by the master of color Joaquin Sorolla.

Master of edges, Anders Zorn (detail) Portrait of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon

Ilya Repin (the master of pretty much everything) Portrait of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin

Artist David Kassan and friends outside of the Met.

Bull's Bridge CT

Richard Schmid lived near South Kent CT a while back and painted a lot of landscapes of the area. One of these is the genius painting of Bull's Bridge. We found Bull's Bridge and I shot this photo down from where I think Richard painted.

Bull's Bridge by Richard Schmid

Katie photographing



I did a quick painting below the bridge with Ed Martinez.

Painting in Connecticut

Katie 16" x 12"

I did this demo for a painting group recently at Robert Lenz'z garden in South Kent Connecticut. I had Katie Swatland model for me, and yes, that's how she dresses for a day of outdoor painting. It was a little challenging because half way through the painting she was in full sun, we had to move to a new location with some shade but I lost that warm yellow light hitting her back.

Jeremy painting outdoors

Katie Swatland and Jeremy Lipking

Athletes For a Cure!

Fight Gone Bad Info Page

Crossfit Central has set a goal of Fundraising $25000.00 this your for athletes for a cure Prostate Cancer. I have set a personal goal of $1000.00. After looking at our groups fundraising efforts we are holding strong at second place with $9000.00 raised and on track to hit the teams goal.

Well then that leaves me...... I have a big whopping $00.00 raised. I am not one to set a goal and not hit it so I have officially started to fund raise and plan to hit my goal quickly. So with that said be the first to donate to a great cause! : )

Watching the Show!

This past weekend Crossfit Central Hosted the final 300 Challenge. Sam (pull up bar) Kris and JJ were being watched by a local cyclist who must of thought they were crazy.