http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2004/08/13/living-it-up-top-gun-style en-us 40 Anil Madhavapeddy <p>Just returned from an excellent trip to Los Angeles, where I checked out Anand and Jyothsna's brand new house in <a href="http://www.ci.camarillo.ca.us/">Camarillo</a>. I picked a good weekend to show up, as the <a href="http://www.kushgames.com/">Kush Games</a> company picnic was on that weekend, resulting in a great few hours of beach volleyball being played. Ahh, maybe California isn't so bad after all...</p> <p>And on returning to Cambridge, I discover that the latest in-thing from the local <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/akw27/">crazy Canadian</a> is improving grip strength by doing extreme pullups with some <a href="http://www.metoliusclimbing.com/rockringscnc.htm">ridged climbing holds</a> slung over a fire escape. Check out the exciting pictures of <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/ach61/">Alex Ho</a> and myself in action below! There is hot competition between <a href="http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~kjm25/">Kieran Mansley</a> and myself, mainly because my hard-earnt benchpress-specialised pecs only get in the way for pullups!</p> <table width="90%" align="center"> <tr> <td class="bimg"><a href="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/2004/08/12/index.html#volleyball"><img border="0" src="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/images/volleyball-medium.jpg" alt="Anand shoots it low, I take it high!" width="140" height="140" /></a><br />Anand shoots it low, I take it high!</td> <td class="bimg"><a href="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/2004/08/13/index.html#anil-hang"><img border="0" src="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/images/anil-hang-medium.jpg" alt="3000 miles later, hanging out in Cambridge" width="140" height="140" /></a><br />3000 miles later, hanging out in Cambridge</td> <td class="bimg"><a href="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/2004/08/13/index.html#alex-hang"><img border="0" src="http://anil.recoil.org/gallery/images/alex-hang-medium.jpg" alt="Alex hangs with zen-like calm" width="140" height="140" /></a><br />Alex hangs with zen-like calm</td> </tr> </table> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:34:36 +0100 urn:uuid:5e5feb64-acbc-42e9-8d7d-d0b472679fd3 avsm http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2004/08/13/living-it-up-top-gun-style travel sport family usa