Doom Dreams

[cranefly]

I could never do pull ups. I even installed a pull up bar at ranch Macbeth in my man cave doorframe vowing to do pull ups whenever I passed through it but never got past two. Cf was really good at them and used to hang out one handers at Lam kwoon. That still bugs me.

I'm not certain I could ever do a one-hander.  Maybe I've just forgotten.

The most I ever did was 18 -- witnessed by LCF -- and they were clean.  Done at age 39 just before that first China trip (in 1991?).  I was in pretty good shape for that Jinan competition.

But my pull-up days seem over.  The bar in my room is too high to safely jump up and grab, or step up on a chair to do so.  And I've had a partial rotator cuff tear in my right shoulder (since the mid-90s) that's grown too touchy to ignore.