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Coriander (cilantro) tea

Coriander (cilantro) tea. Our kidneys filter our blood by removing salt, poisons and toxins entering our body.with time the three mentioned accumulate.a good way to clean and detoxify our kidneys is with coriander tea. To make it, take a bunch of coriander (organic if possible) cut into small pieces place into pot with filtered water.boil [...]

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Good Ol’ Chicken Soup

Good old chicken soup, put a whole chicken in a large pot with celery, carrot, onion , garlic, ginger, sea salt, pepper and cover with filtered water.simmer for 8 hours.put in fridge over night.. skim half the fat off and heat up(not in micro wave).. it may be a placebo to some but the cold [...]

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The Importance of Alignment

The most important strengthening training anyone can do is just make sure their body is in alignment. Because when their body’s not in alignment, that’s when you got weaknesses, and some muscles are under-used and some are over-used, and some are short, some are tight. It’s a really good idea to go to a professional, [...]

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EGGS = POWER FOOD

THE 20 BEST WAYS TO USE EGGS (repost from livestrong.com) Lose weight, gain muscle, and improve your cholesterol? There is a super-food that’s been linked to all of these benefits: Eggs. The only problem? Unless you have a limitless appetite for omelets and scrambles, there seems to be a limited number of ways to incorporate [...]

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Exercises for the Average Surfer

It’s really hard to pick just one or two, cause it really depends on your posture and where you’re strong. Some people are naturally strong in the lower body and weak in the upper body, so that person has trouble paddling and the pushup phase of standing up on the board. So you’d work on [...]

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Strong Groms!

Video World’s Strongest Kids! No one messes with these kids on the playground..

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Injury Prevention

Especially the amount of money a lot of kids are getting paid these days — it’s a great investment for the companies for having them fit and ready to surf. Because you don’t want’em spending six months out of the water with a knee injury. Not only is it not good for the kid, but [...]

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Stretching with Mark Mathews

Video Anterior and posterior chain stretches with big-wave surfer Mark Mathews.

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Grass vs Grain

To compare a humans diet to grass and grain fed cows. Grass fed would be like eating clean, unprocessed healthy food. Grain fed would be like living on McDonald’s. Grass fed meat has 2 to 4 times more omega 3 fatty acids and less omega 6 fatty acid which is over consumed in our diets.. [...]

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Training for Specific Moves

There’s a definite correlation between the kinds of exercises we do and surf turns. Like a drawn-out bottom turn. We do a lot of single-lef squats for when he needs to drive off each leg. ‘Cause when he’s surfing, it’s very rare that he’s got equal amount of weight on both legs.. And then there’s [...]