Here's a thought; what about creating the platform for men and their sons to come together, build skills and endure hardship together - you know, like we used to two grandmas ago? It's my opinion that, generally, we've lost our way. The traditional qualities of men have been usurped by political correctness and feminized culture. Whoa, that's a pretty brash statement, once I actually write it out. I do feel that - more some days than others, and more specifically, after I endure something like Go Ruck or one of my two weekly strangling sessions at The Rumble Academy's Jiu [...]

So, I went to GoRuck. I'd been meaning to for two years but kept pussyfooting around the event and training required. Since I started at Jiu Jitsu and met actual, real-life challenge on a weekly basis, I signed up. That, and I was hoping that as I rounded out the final step in my Army recruitment process, I could get a glimpse of the intensity required by the workouts on the other side of civilian life. I arrived a few hours early after assuming the traffic and parking would be horrible. My first mistake of the night, I sat and [...]