Praise to GPP: A Real Life Exemple!

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[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
fabiop wrote:
I run upstairs, knocked a door down, jump off a window, climbed a gate and run after the two guys.

Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn’t it be simpler to just WALK over to the gate from where you were (allegedly the garden) and climb it rather than run upstairs only to jump back down from a window?
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I thougth they were aggressing my sister (which had gone upstair).

Sorry for my bad english.

Crossfit would be a nice way to go, if there was a Crossift gym in Sicily…

PS: I was wearing a white t-shirt :wink:

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[quote]Scrotus wrote:
dianab wrote:
did anyone notice that he jumped off a window with an axe in his hand, here I thought it was a bad idea to run with scissors…

It is bad to run with scissors, but jumping out a window with an axe is fine. Especially if there is something you can hit the axe with on the way down to do a super sweet slow down your fall maneuver. AWESOME!~!!![/quote]

Yeah. Flying leaps with axes have been known to spontaneously combust into awesome.

On a more serious note, OP, are you facing any legal troubles for intimidating the theifs with an axe or causing harm by choking one of them out?

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[quote]fabiop wrote:
Hi everybody! I’m not new to T-Nation, but I rarely post. I just want to stress the importance of GPP in everydaylife, giving you the exemple of what happened to me today.

I was in my sister’s house, doing some garden work, when I sudden heard her shouting, because some thiefs where in. I run upstair, knocked a door down, jump off a window, climbed a gate and run after the two guys. I had an axe in my hand (I was cutting some wood), and I managed to get one of them after a good 400m sprint. He tried to escape, so I had to submit him till the police arrived. Cops later caught the other one.
I’ve found out later that they are in their early 20’s, and I’m 34…

What is the point of telling you all this? Whatever your training goal is (PL, BB, looking good when naked), never forget to get (and stay) in good GPP: there is a life out of the weightroom, and we’ve better be ready to face anything…[/quote]

Let me get this straight…

You were doing some garden work,
You heard your sister screaming upstairs,
You run upstairs, knock down the door,
And the robbers fled.

You went after them by…
Jumping out the window and over a gate,
All of this with an AXE IN YOUR HAND,
Then ran one of them down and choked him the fuck out.

You, sir, are FUCKING AWESOME!

I hereby nominate fabiop for T-Man of the Year 2009 and award him 1,000,000 Internets.

ElbowStrike

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Who the hell uses an axe to cut wood when you can use a chainsaw?
That would have made the story way better if you ran after the guys with a chainsaw… and instead of thiefs maybe make them zombies…

and maybe instead of it being your sister make it a group of lesbian strippers (unless your sister is really hot)…
and instead of submitting him you chop the zombies up into tiny pieces, light them on fire, take them inside, chop the ashes up and start doing rails and then take a huge shit.

(a bonus 1,000,000 internets if anyone knows that that last part is from)

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[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Shit, the OP even made the headlines.[/quote]

Did you google image search ‘chimp axe’?

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To Otep: No legal troubles because of cool cops: they told me to hide the axe, and they didn’t mention it at all :wink: We’re in Sicily, after all!

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[quote]ElbowStrike wrote:

Let me get this straight…

You were doing some garden work,
You heard your sister screaming upstairs,
You run upstairs, knock down the door,
And the robbers fled.

You went after them by…
Jumping out the window and over a gate,
All of this with an AXE IN YOUR HAND,
Then ran one of them down and choked him the fuck out.

ElbowStrike[/quote]

Thank you for putting it in plain English, I could have been more clear in my first post…

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That’s an an awesome story man. Good work NOT using the axe on them. If someone was in my familias house I would have had a hard time containing MY italian emmotions.

Don’t let the fools on the first page mess with ya. Good work

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[quote]fabiop wrote:
To Otep: No legal troubles because of cool cops: they told me to hide the axe, and they didn’t mention it at all :wink: We’re in Sicily, after all![/quote]

So, that is responsible police work.

They give much needed legal advice and do not stand in the way so much.

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[quote]fabiop wrote:
To Otep: No legal troubles because of cool cops: they told me to hide the axe, and they didn’t mention it at all :wink: We’re in Sicily, after all![/quote]

This is good to hear. All too often, heroes go home the victim of their courage. I’m glad that’s not you.

And yeah- badass story.

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[quote]Otep wrote:
Yeah. Flying leaps with axes have been known to spontaneously combust into awesome.
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LOL.

That picture is incredible.

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awesome

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i was totally thinking the same thing about googling axe chimp… you crazy mofo.

btw, vibealive, your avatar is fucking hilarious…

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[quote]B rocK wrote:
That’s an an awesome story man. Good work NOT using the axe on them. If someone was in my familias house I would have had a hard time containing MY italian emmotions.

Don’t let the fools on the first page mess with ya. Good work[/quote]

Are you italian (or maybe your ancestors)? I could manage not to use the axe because I noticed my sister hadn’t been injured, otherwise…I don’t know…really!

By the way, my experience shows (to me, at least…) that:

  • doing compound lifts (PL, OL and a few more)
  • keeping rest periods short (no more than 60’')
  • training full body very often

gave me a good GPP. Gotta implement some HIIT…it took me a bit too much to run over them :wink:

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[quote]lildave wrote:
Who the hell uses an axe to cut wood when you can use a chainsaw?
[/quote]

Ever try splitting logs with a chainsaw?

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Betting most of the haters wouldn’t have done what the OP did.

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I guess all i can say is:
Great job

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no… up here in Canada we have gas fireplaces.