A few years ago I was scrolling through Quora and found a variation of this question. The original referred to people of the past and immediately I thought about MMA and gladiators. …

Crafting beautiful art with the skills and strength of a warrior-artist, learning about the deep tradition of pottery as a craft and…

Thrust with the mysterious loss of his father, Cairo born Yasir must navigate through the changing landscape of 13th century Egypt. …

What do cowboys and fitness have to do with each other? Ask Hondo Lane, the Apache-raised, US Army scout who finds himself trying to rescue a lone woman and her small child in a forgotten ranch in Arizona. He’s got Apaches on one side and he’s got those in the…

Ships are freaking amazing. If you read the newsletter I mentioned the Battle of Lepanto, the largest galley-led sea battle. Imagine over 400 warships going to battle in the Ionian sea. Not sailboats but ships that were built like staging platforms and ready for a land battle on sea. It…

Instagram is so powerful of a tool today. It is literally shaping perception and cultivating thousands upon thousands of brands, write at the fingertips with our phones. But this obsession with pictures and capturing moments is not something new. …

I’m rereading an old favorite novel called Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell who, spins his own story of the Greek myth, the Trojan War. I rarely reread books, especially novels but this one is one of the few exceptions. Just as how many people weren’t interested in…

Recently I had the chance to review the Pull Up Mate by a UK company specializing in the calisthenics demographic. But back to the pullup bar. No one cares about bodyweight anymore. And that’s strange because I’m sure many of us started with bodyweight training. I remember my dad would…

Genghis Khan: the Medieval Mongol nomad who took the world by storm, a man who lived on a horse and always moving. …..Hated cities and everything they represented: Ease, comfort, lethargy, death. Conquering them was a way for him to uphold the superiority of the Mongol nomad way of life…