Pulling
I've posted here a few times saying that to some extent I'm the “underperformer” of my siblings (although I still do a lot of stuff!). My sister recently finished doing an amazing documentary on Matthew Good, and my brother is now ranked second in the world in the pro unlimited weight category of arm wrestling, neck and neck with John Brzenk. You can see him destroying Jacob Abbott at Chehalis, and he's in the current video of the month over at ARM TV (also footage from Chehalis). Check it out if you're into this growing sport.
It's funny — when I left home, my brother was just a skinny little kid. My skinny friends Todd and Scott called him “wings” because his shoulder blades stuck out so far… Then he took off for a while to find himself, worked on the oil friends, hitch-hiked across Canada pool sharking, and exercised like crazy, and when the bunch of us returned from university he was 6'5″ and his muscles dwarfed us. Of the kids in my family, I'm “naturally” the biggest, but his ability to focus and exert gargantuan effort has pushed him to world levels in a number of sports. I'm incredibly proud of him (and my sister too).
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