He bears the stamp of a place and time where physical culture had more to do with tangling with a resisting opponent than repping an iron weight. In fact, I first knew of him as a practitioner of the rare (and scary) Indonesian art of silat. (Think dirty boxing and stand-up grappling, sometimes with blades.) I’ve always thought of him as “Knife Gumby,” the flexible, springy-strong stabby guy.Īnd it’s because of that background-wrestling and boxing and blades, not barbells and bodybuilding-that Tom thinks about fitness differently from anybody else in my world. Though Tom is best known now among the fitness cognoscenti for bodyweight fitness books like Armor of War, he emerged from a martial arts background. With a 4″ inseam, they are the perfect length: just long enough to keep your thighs from rubbing each other raw when you run, but short enough to vent body heat without looking like a banana hammock. What is so great about F1 shorts? First, they keep you cool. They are equally at home rucking around in the desert propping up a neo-colonial strongman regime and making droll conversation at the yacht club. Voilà! The “F1” tropical/desert shorts! These are truly the perfect “dual-purpose” shorts for athletic use and social wear. That’s how we got the GAO shirt, the most underrated hot weather garment in existence, and the stupendously light but tough “ bush shoes.”īut wait, because only now do we come to the greatest of France’s gifts. With its “almost Juche-like self-reliance” in design and “ riens a foudre” (“zero f***s given”) attitude of indifference, France was unafraid to try ideas that looked weird. If you are a thickly thighed outdoorsman who gravitates to cheap surplus gear, you already have ample reason to be thankful to France. You will need something just a little longer if you don’t want to be mistaken for a pride marcher or a catamite. The shorts that work great in a hot yoga class can get you the wrong sort of attention on the street (especially if you’re near sketchy public men’s rooms in municipal parks–don’t ask me to explain). However, practical is not always presentable. This truth was once known to every man in America and informed the design of basketball shorts, wrestling and weightlifting singlets, and military shorts like UDTs and ranger panties. Braby, French Foreign Legion Paratroops (1985), reproduced by kind permission of Osprey Publishing (London). Note the GAO shirt and Palladium boots as well. Pavel Tsatsouline, is a former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor, who helped Dragon Door Publications initiate the modern kettlebell movement.Eighties-era F1 shorts. I salute Pavel and Beyond Bodybuilding.-LOUIE SIMMONS, Westside Barbell I wholeheartedly About Pavel Tsatsouline of Santa Monica, CA
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