How I have my “Rig” attached has changed. The new configuration can be seen by clicking the picture. Everything else has stayed the same. After 1 year of use all of the attachments are still performing as good as new.
Since I’m tired of falling off rigs while Luke sails across, I figured that I needed to do something to raise my odds a little bit. Since I don’t have a big enough bank account to buy my own rig, I decided I might as well create my own.
I thought the best way to do this is to enlist Luke to help design and build the obstacles. So that is what I did. His thought was that we needed a combination of ball holds, pipe holds, rings and ropes and about 10-12 of them in total. Those seem to be some of the more common grips on the rigs, so I figured that this would be a pretty good start. So after a quick trip to Amazon.com to price out some of the items we need, I decided there has to be a better way.
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As I have advanced in years, I have realized that getting older isn’t as bad as most people believe it to be. It has given me the chance to spend nearly 20 years with my lovely wife and more importantly she has spent the time with me (thanks Kathy); to see my kids grow to become wonderful young adults; to see the birth of my first grandchild and to gain the perspective that comes from making it through nearly 53 years of life.
Life is an obstacle race 