The HOOK GRIP

I asked a lot of clients and coaches at the box if they use a hook grip. Most of the people said "no".  Most of them have heard about the hook grip but tried it a few times and said the hell with that. I feel like you must use it, I know I do.
So I made a little video to go over it.
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The American Flag

For the past two years we have made Shirts for the team and even for our clients, and on the right sleeve we put the American flag, shown above and below on Cody's right sleeve (don't mind Jane).

And Every year people say "do you know your flag is on backwards?". So here is some info on the subject.

For flag patches worn on uniforms the blue star field always faces towards the front, with the red and white stripes behind. Think of the flag, not as a patch, but as a loose flag attached to the Soldier's arm like a flag pole. As the Soldier moves forward, the red and white stripes will flow to the back.

The blue field of stars should always be in the highest position of honor.

This flag is symbolic of the men who used to march into battle with an actual flag. So steady and strong that the flag would blow behind them. On the arms of our soldiers, the flag faces as if being carried into battle, blowing behind them.

So for me, Regionals is our battle that we go into. So we go into our battle with the Flag waving behind us. 

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New WOD's New Body

The past couple months my workout regime has changed dramatically. I went from Oly lifting and strength workouts about 3-4x a week, with WOD's about 5-6x a week. I would have to say I was feeling strong, I was feeling fast with light to medium weights, and my WOD times where pretty good. My weakness at the time was longer WOD's 30 mins and longer, also my run times where not that good.
Now my WODs are more like task. I have been following one of the programs from Military Athlete, a ruck march focused program. Some days there are 5 sessions and each session is like a WOD, most the time the are not for time. Some of the sessions are a 1 to 2 hour ruck march. (For y'all that do not know what a ruck march is, it is a light run/ fast walk with a pack on your back and boots on your feet.) Its a good time. I nother good work out I have done is:
30 mins hard pace
3 min jog
20 mins hard pace
2 min jog
10 mins hard pace

Now I'm feeling faster on my run's, my road marches feel good. I am not feeling strong and even my body weight stuff does'nt feel to great. I did "Kelly" a couple days ago 400 M run 30 box jumps 30 wall balls 5x, I have not had that much intensity in a workout for a while. I was sore for 2 days.
It is a little frustrating, then I think about my goal and I just keep moving forward. It will all be worth it.