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Friday, October 17, 2014

The Green Chair


I was in EQ this morning and saw my friend Mary with her back against the mirror suspended in a seated position without a chair and my thoughts flashed back to 1969 and remembered the hazing I went through at SUNY Maritime. The Green Chair was a small form of torture our IDO’s (Indoctrination Officer’s) doled out when we had the misfortune of breaking some arcane infraction during our first two weeks at this military college nestled underneath the Throgs Neck Bridge. Now here was Mary engaging in it willingly as a way to strengthen her core. It’s amazing what 45 years can do by taking an old punishment hazing if you will and make it a modern method on the ever-changing pathways to 21st Century fitness. By the way Mary had 4 different variations on that same drill we loathed.