IronBob of Kayak Lake Mead
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The Training Sphere: Everything is harder on the sphere; gravity is heavier, winds and tides are stronger, storms are fiercer, terrain is rougher, hills are steeper, rocks are sharper. After a training season on The Sphere, the mind will be indelibly stamped with the concept of The Obstacle is...
The clenched fist reveals the dragon. The mind bending sea miles and unending head winds have yielded their tax. Yet, as the fist clenches in resolve above the magical chart, the course of events change, and the winds diminish and divert. - From The Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Sea Breeze Ninjas train in the wind. The training lessons are hard learned; the cold, the wet, the blisters, the hunger, the fear. In the end, they know the wind is their friend, they know it wants to make them stronger. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Long have the Vultures overwatched returning Sea Breeze Ninjas. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Master the Night On the Sea at Night, not for the weak or faint hearted... Out in the night that covers us, out in these waters of wrath and tears, we are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our souls*. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas *Paraphrased from the poem...
A standard trial for a Sea Breeze Ninja, long crossings of desert in the heat of Summer with an expedition loaded kayak, an almost impossible task in temperatures of 127 degrees. Here IronBob and TheJuice, return to their kayak after a short break. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
The Dragons represent wind, tide, fatigue, hunger, sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and fear; any and all obstacles in the path of the Sea Breeze Ninjas. The crystal represents the training, the strength, the skills, courage, determination, and strength of character to overcome the dragons. - From...
The background chart depicts the known distance. The wavy bands represent the unknown effects, dilemmas, challenges, and obstacles of weather, wind, and tide. The hard sea miles and these variables result in a disequilibrium of, well of everything, giving mile after mile of mental and physical...
Sea Monster, Leviathan, Dragon; "The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin... Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood" - excerpts from Job 41. Yet, as the Sea Breeze Ninja paddles forth, he must always remain intrepid. - From The...
"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul", first stanza of "Invictus" by William Henley, into the fray, into the holocaust, to seek, to close with, to destroy the enemy. - From The Chronicles of the Sea Breeze...
A new day dawns with nature's dazzling light and the retreat of the dragons; a different version of "New Day Storm Receding" but with the dragons in retreat. It is the story of the Sea Breeze Ninjas... Paddling 240 miles at maximum effort, paddling into fifty mile per hour head winds, paddling...
Paddling 240 miles at maximum effort, paddling into fifty mile per hour head winds, paddling all night through the storm and still they are not finished... and yet are greeted by the receding storm and a new day... infinity has opened its arms, all fear replaced by dazzling light and a glimpse...
Pushing into the night, all night long, after paddling all day, day after day; are the dragons real, is it a dream? - From The Chronicles of The Sea Breeze Ninjas
IronBob and TheJuice returning from 7 miles offshore, zigzagging and broaching and bracing in winds up to 50 mph, finally they capsize 1 mile off the mouth of the Big Marco River, and recover and continue on. "Practice your high brace boys"! - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas.
A memory of softer times, of the portal of the Black Canyon at sunrise, memories of the home planet before the dragons came. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Retreat Hell! Here Sea Breeze Ninjas lead their pursuers into the kill zone (See theme "Assault Above (Night Ops)". - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
"I don't always paddle, but when I do, I paddle like Dragon", quote from TheJuice. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Well have you? - From The Chronicles of The Sea Breeze Ninjas
A standard trial for a Sea Breeze Ninja, long crossings of desert in the heat of Summer with an expedition loaded kayak, an almost impossible task in temperatures of 127 degrees and with Dragon Storms. Here IronBob and TheJuice prevail in such a storm. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
The Sea Wraiths, not wraiths at all, but the surviving remnants of the indigenous dragon beings of Terra Aldebaran, before the war dragons came, before the wars, and now allies and friends of the Sea Breeze Ninjas. - From The Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
Sea Breeze Ninjas train hard, shudder at the thought of being found wanting for skills or fitness or fortitude anywhere. With canyon runs and talus slope runs; they work on their agility. With free climbs without a rope; they work on their finger and hand strength, on flexibility, and on...
Paddling 260 miles, 260 miles constant headwinds, 3 hours sleep 3 days, maximum effort, focusing hard, mind slipping, the sea the color of sand, a dark day with one moon rising... What planet are we on? - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
The dragons have been pushed back to the most remote corners of Aldebaran. Now cornered, their wrath is unleashed. - From the Chronicles of the Sea Breeze Ninjas
The Sea Breeze Ninjas' strength needs to be that of steel. His tensile strength is his strength before breaking. But, he needs the other attributes of steel; he needs to know when to be soft, he needs to know when to be ductile. He needs to be tough; showing resistant to corrosion and resistance...