I'm going to go and Howdy folks,

folks Rob Wolf here, another edition of the Palos Solution Podcast.

I am very excited to introduce you folks or hopefully you are already following him

Tom Furman the author of many a book including the lately released bamboo gods

ironmen and rubber bands

uh... he is the quasi prolific author at the blog Tom Furman.com

formerly physical strategies which was one of my favorite locations to go and

read about bladed edged weapons because Tom and I both have a

well Tom you're still more up to date on this than I am but a background in

Filipino martial arts so welcome to the show. Thank you very much. So how are you doing?

You're having a chilly day in South Florida like 68 degrees you said?

Parking.

68 70 degrees clear blue skies, palm trees outside, occasional, actually there might be an alligator once in a while out here or racknoons walking by.

Truthfully, actually, where they're building likes in my community here and there's

alligators drift in once in a while. Right right when Nicky and I we all I almost got to

meet Tom in the flesh when we were in South Florida several years ago and Nicky was kind of

walking by like a it looked like a water you know core steel and in like a golf course and I was like I don't know that you really want to be like hanging out right by the edge of that thing here and she's like why and I'm like I think you have like alligators and all this stuff.

Yeah, yeah, I actually there's a great photo from the Everglades of a crocodile and an alligator crossing

pass within like three feet of one another and a water actually I posted a while back.

Oh, I remember that. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. So Tom, tell folks a little bit about your background. Like you have a really interesting mix of both strength and conditioning, martial arts, very, you know, extensive clientele of folks that you've worked with in both strength and conditioning, rehab and nutrition.

Tell folks a little bit about your background. I grew up in the Pittsburgh area.

It's a little north of Pittsburgh, Beaver County, Butler County area, which used to be kind of isolated from Pittsburgh.

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