I love how every story in England makes it seem like they’re preparing for a trip to the sun. They’re playing in Dallas (air conditioned), Boston and New Jersey. Is this how they lost the war it was 82 degrees in Lexington?
The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.
Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.
The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly
You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.
The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.
The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).
The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.
The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.
Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.
Just 7 seconds.
People see Jalen Brunson and think he is not athletic because he doesn’t jump high. In basketball he is athletic because
1) he has a super quick first step
2) he can change directions super well
3) he can decelerate with the best of them
4)He plays off of two feet
Keeping your chest down through the ball is often a new feel for people.
This drill not only helps with club face control but will help you to understand what it feels like to stay down and through it and not tilt and come out of it.
2023… Wemby drafted 1st overall
2024… Wemby wins Rookie of the Year
2025… Wemby named an NBA All-Star
2026… Wemby leads Spurs to NBA Finals
This is what a generational talent looks like.
Hip High Swings:
This is the bulk of what I will do the first 15 minutes of a practice session.
I always feel if I can see the ball fly like I want to with these hip high swings then my full swing is just an extension of this.
This is a great way to work into your golf swing if you flip it, stand up through it, struggle with face control and low point.
The simplicity of the hip high swings will expose compensations in your golf swings.
Hate swing out to in? Hitting pulls or wipey fades? Here is an easy drill you can do at home with a small side table. Get comfortable laying the club down on a table behind you. This will help to ingrain the proper movements. So you can start swinging from the inside and
Everyone keeps saying AI gives them garbage. Anthropic just proved the problem is you, not the model.
This 24 minute video rebuilds one prompt from useless to flawless. Save it for the evening with tea - now that Opus 4.8 is here, getting this is everything.