This months challenge: busting a sweat

[LitTrog]

yes, they're the correct, proper, and traditional footwear choice when practising "kilted kung fu"

So, they're Shaolin monkstraps? Even better!

[Alan H]

To be honest, I don't do much sweating in my kilts, apart from the occasional hike. I feel bad sometimes for being one of those folks around here who endlessly discusses the minutiae of THCD and often post pics of myself just posing to show off an outfit because I know this drives poor Alan to distraction.

As my way of making it up to him, I accepted this months challenge.

My usual workout is Chinese kung fu and the uniform down at the club most definitely does not involve a kilt! Here's a few pics of me working up a sweat at home in my Sportkilt while practising on my wooden dummy. I hope this doesn't break any forum rules

Just the hands moving:


Stepping around for another move:



I couldn't resist one posed photo, but my excuse is that this one shows my sweatiness the best


To be honest, a kilt isn't that great for this kind of workout because of the kicking, which I had the decency NOT to take pics of Still, it was kind of fun for a lark

If I wanted to do more working out in a kilt, I think it would be more fun to do some Scottish backhold wrestling. Does anyone know of a group in the Toronto area?

That is bluidy AWESOME!

Hey ecklarkb is looking to do some backhold wrestling in Scotland next year. He's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu green belt, and they do a lot of floor work, not so much upright, but still. I bet he'll do well. I'm thinking that some basic Judo training would do a fellow well, if he wanted to try some backhold.

[eclarkhb]

That is bluidy AWESOME!

Hey ecklarkb is looking to do some backhold wrestling in Scotland next year. He's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu green belt, and they do a lot of floor work, not so much upright, but still. I bet he'll do well. I'm thinking that some basic Judo training would do a fellow well, if he wanted to try some backhold.

Purple belt Alan! :-) In Brazilian Jui-jitsu Green belts are typically for kids only, adults are White-Blue-Purple-Brown-Black, which is usually about a 10 year journey.

And yes, judo would help with backhold wrestling, there's several judokan's who have gone to Scotland & tried backhold wrestling. The biggest difference obviously is the grips & the fact that with backhold wrestling whoever hits the ground first loses. so there's quite a bit of technique & skill around twisting yourself in the air (like a cat) & getting your feet under you to make the other guy hit the ground first. But with that said, all the hip & foot work from judo would help a lot.

And the kilted kung fu pictures are cool!

[CMcG]

Alan and eclarkhb, thanks for the ideas re: judo and backhold wrestling. I did a bit of judo back in high school and have also done some BJJ, so maybe backhold wouldn't be too hard to pick up. It sure looks like fun!

[Katia]

I'd post a dance pic if I could, but unfortunately, ever since Photobucket became "new and improved," it's become progressively more unusable for me. It started out as merely "difficult to load," but has now gone from "I can't upload anything new" to "I can't even access the links to the stuff I have on there."

Wish I still had my old avatar pic up; that one was of dancing. No doubt it was one of those 80+ degree days, so naturally I and a bunch of other people dressed up in wool and velvet and jumped around under the full sun in the middle of the afternoon. (Or as one girl I was once chatting with in the marshaling line, as we tried to figure out why we do this to ourselves, put it {I paraphrase}: "Yeah, Highland dance-- you get up there for three minutes of excruciating cardio... and then you're done.")

Dance is pretty much the only sweat-inducing thing I do kilted. It might be different if I had a few sport kilts and such, but otherwise... well, you know... dry cleaning. Also, my body is terrible at regulating heat, so my workout gear always consists of shorts and a tank top, and nothing that will add any more heat than necessary.

Admittedly, even walking around a Games on a hot day can make one break a sweat. You should've seen the look I gave the kid in the shorts and t-shirt at one Games who complained about the heat...

[OC Richard]

Great pic there, Lime! You can actually SEE the sweat!

I sweat in the kilt quite often here, being a piper, expected to be in full kit with black jacket, often piping outdoors with temps in the 90s or even over 100.

I have no photos of my hottest gigs, but a couple stick out in the memory:

I was playing for the funeral of a Marine. Though it was over 100F (38) the Honour Guard was in Dress Blues, and I was wearing a black wool jacket, all of us standing out in the full sun.

I and the Marines stood our ground, but halfway through one of the Marines passed out, falling flat, on top of his rifle. Nobody moved and that Marine lay there the rest of the service. Luckily we were on thick grass so he had a soft landing!

The worst when I had to pipe at a wedding held out in Palm Springs. It was around 110F (43) and I had to play in the sun wearing a jacket. It wouldn't have been quite so bad but I had the flu and had a fever of around 103 at the time.

I see your record is 37

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-day-ever.html

but pipers here in the Southwestern US play in temperatures above that fairly often.

[Zardoz]

When I saw your name as new poster in this thread, I thought for sure it would be one of your infamous RenFaire "is there a kilt in that picture" shots. . . you gotta be working up a sweat in every one of those! LOL

Your wish is my command .... Here a shot from a outdoor concert on a hot August night in Houston;

[grizzbass]

great shots. Makes me want climb mountains, jumping over dead trees and wrestle grizzlies (although I am not sweating at this point I had been all day long (climbing mountains, jumping dead trees and watching grizzlies, wrestling seemed a little dangerous) (see my recent yellowstone post for those adventures)

[cck]

Loading up the bike after completing a triathlon in 90 degree weather 7/7.

[Tartan Hiker]

I can't believe I missed out on this thread until now. I really need to take some time off!



There's definitely sweat on my kilts, shirts, hats and everything else most of the summer. Laying water bars to control erosion on the trails in Montreat in this photo.

And here's an oldie that I don't think I've posted before. Hiking trip in the Montreat watershed in my Carolina tartan kilt. That one was made of 100% cotton and I sold it after I got fed up with the constantly wrinkled pleats.



And here's another oldie...hiking along and encountering a splendid specimen of Timber Rattlesnake.