Thankyou, Brother. Good inspiration. I'm soon to head to the opposite pole, no longer to see the Northern Asters, to see the last of my kin aft 38 years of travelling the world. I'll miss the dark Atlantic... ;}
Beautifully stated. All peoples everywhere evolved in ecologies which made or broke them and in the differing ways of which each ecology demanded them to evolve, to thrive, to survive. Differences in looks is but the tip of the ... (smiles) ... "iceberg", which created our beings, inside "and" out. I wish people could grow to appreciate their uniqueness, instead of hating others for theirs. What a world that would be, and there would be no end to what we could as a united peoples, achieve. Thank you so much for being who you are. My ancestors are from Scandinavia, and I am exceedingly proud. I am the result of their existence, and I honor them deeply.
the harsh invirornment will either shap you or break you toughness is in our DNA a gift from our forfedre forged from long hard journeys...god dag min venn 🐾🐺🐾
There is a certain style to this video, great camera work, and the way you open a window on your thoughts through the scenery and the storm , that is part of you , it feels like I am looking at the life force of viking ,,,,,,, great stuff really enjoy your videos
So happy to of found your channel, thanks you Bjørn. I am going to watch all of your videos. I was born in Rorvik Norway and my parents took me to Canada in the mid 1960s. In my heart and soul I feel that I never left there. I am thankful for videos like this. 🙏🙌👍👏
My favorite beach days are the stormy, white capped waves kind of days. I now live by the mountains and looking forward to the snowy storms coming. I always think of my ancestors who made it through every storm, and maybe that's just my way of connecting with them. I appreciate this video very much.
Love this video. One day I will finally retrace the steps of now long-distant ancestors and stand there on those shores myself and face those winds and oceans. Aussie here so I cannot help but reflect on Aussie culture (outside the big cities) as I think on these things. We often have the opposite elements to deal with - suffocating, relentless heat, weeks on end of temperatures near 40 degrees Celsius, and many 40-45 degrees days and even more with wild, hot winds like dragon's breath, droughts and raging bushfires. You have got to be tough to survive out in the outback. Farming and raising cattle in Australia's conditions is incredibly tough. And our fair skin is better suited to your climate than ours. I spent much of my time growing up around the ocean, and there faced wild storms and winds at times, though always only passing rather than the relentless winds up north. Once as a teen, I had climbed a small mountain (let's say hill by Nordic standards, but we call it mountain!), a favourite place that overlooked the ocean and I saw a storm rolling in from out at sea. I found a rock shelter on the mountain and watched the storm roll in and over the mountain, lightning and thunder all around, thrashing wind and rain. It was like facing Thor or God or something out there alone on the mountainside, terrifying but awe-inspiring. I even was nearly accidentally drowned in the ocean (by my sister!) in a game that went horribly wrong, so I shared with the ocean those moments where I thought I faced death. What I have never faced is the North. The cold, the eternal dark, the relentless winds, the ice and snow and blizzards, the wild oceans I have seen footage of. And those things have always held great fascination to me, and inspired my desire to visit or even work in Antarctica. The physical environment absolutely shapes us. If that environment is a dirty city, holed up in air-conditioned comfort, then what children will we raise? I think it is important to raise children in a culture that values grit and determination, but I guess especially within family this can be balanced with softer qualities that are also key to the well-being of our people. Balance. Always balance is key.
After a DNA test, I discovered 98.6% European, growing up on my father's heels although being a girl, he always made my life exciting when he finally came home from work! In short of everything, it was very hard to find a man to marry like my father, to me he was a viking! He taught me the many facets of life, ancestry & history! Now I want to learn more about the viking in me.
What a tremendously powerful video Sturla! I came here from Bjørn's channel. You mentioned there that you're working on a big project concerning DNA and the roots of the Vikings. I have been fascinated since childhood with their harsh life, thirst for adventure and exploration, bravery in battle, the gods that shaped their thinking and ideas. I am surely interested in what you will discover with your project, especially when it comes to DNA. I am absolutely thrilled that Bjørn introduced you to all of us. Tussen takk!
That looks like just my kind of place. Originally from an island in Alaska, I now live in a hot sandy place, New Mexico. I long to get back to the oceans and mountains. I have not been to Norway, YET, but it looks very familiar. Lovely video!
You are very eloquent, a skill that is rare, I encourage you to do more writing and videos like this one. I am from Australia, but have grandparents from Denmark. I recently moved to Trondheim in part to rediscover my roots, if you are ever around this way, it would be great to have beer.
This sounds strange, but I just want to hug you for making this peace of poetry and also for somehow understanding how I feel at the top of a windblown mountain top, face into the onslaught, free, alive, invincible, but also temporary and insignificant. This is Beautiful! You describe the nobility and masculinity of men that I grew up with, gentle giants. Loving, with an inner masculine strength that every time I try to find or describe in the US I am not comprehended.
This video is great! Love the narrative style while you are walking facing the wind. It just sets the scene on which you are talking about! There is truths for everyone in what you say! Thanks again! Truly inspirational!!
It is So Beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love your videos....you just dont make enough of them ......Also I am So happy to find out that americal was discovered by Vikings ! ! ! !
This is art. You are an artist! Jeg bor noen timer sør for deg med båt. Dette var bedre enn alt som er på tv. Jeg skulle gjerne likt å hørt deg på norsk.
@@VikingStories Vær så snill å produsere noe på norsk, fordi jeg er en tysker fra Bayern og jeg tenker at jeg kan lære mye verdifullt av deg. Du har en klar og mannlig stemme alle som vil lære norsk med deg forstår veldig godt. Takk skal De/du ha.
@@Vingul Takk. Ja, mentaliteten i Tyskland er mer formelt og strenger. Det gjenspeiler seg i bruk av ord, tenker jeg. Kanskje kommer jeg til å få muligheten til å oppleve hvordan man snakker i Norge i egen person.
Beautiful views. Also great video. I loved this. I have two young boys. So these words of yours rang true in my mind and soul. Good day to you. Thank you for sharing this.
Absolutely amazing video. The awesomeness of nature never stops fascinating me. And you are such a great orator it makes me reflect on my own upbringing here in Northern Ontario Canada. Thank you so much.
It was wonderful hearing it from you, what I know inside of myself. Looking forward to watching your other videos. I came here from Bjorn's channel :) I wish you so much success for the future, Sturla. May Peace be with you always :)
Hi Sturia, greetings from a man from Northumbria. I found you recently through Bjorn's channel. Your videos are interesting, informative and give me a yearn for the adventure. Freaky camerawork also! Thank you.
Hi. Please keep up doing your videos they are inspiring. I have a future video idea for you please. I know your a DNA specialist but I’d like to learn more about the sailing the Vikings did. You touched on it briefly on this video about it taking 5 days to Iceland. I find this very interesting and I’ve been lucky enough to visit Iceland one March and we couldn’t believe the strength of the winds and power waves we saw. I’d like to know what time of year they typically sailed, the navigation, ship deign, success rate. And the rest! Thanks.
I'm told that the sea shanty , was invented by the sailors of slave ships centuries after the vikings, haha ,maybe they can take credit for the word shanty, but can not belive vikings that sailed the longship rowed in silence,,, oh dear of coarse they sang in time , and must have had a name for the type of song that they sang , and they must have had another song apart from "my mother told me" ?????????
Thank you for that excellent video. Reminds me of a long time ago with a life line around my waist and walking out on an icy steel deck with waves crashing over the bow and getting soaking wet at 20 below zero. I'm now in the most remote county in Colorado but I think I'll be headed to the shores of Lake Superior soon. Skoll.
Oh my... Very well done! Very well done indeed! Outstanding narration to accompany the lovely weather and rugged terrain. This actually probably explains why I was miserable growing up in central Florida and had to move to a state that has rugged terrain and weather conditions. The annual tropical storms and occasional hurricanes were just annoying and the ever-present heat was stifling! I now happily reside in the Ozarks in SW Missouri, and love it! I still want to visit Norway at least once before I die, tho. If and when that happens, I'd love to meet you.
Hello Sturla. A great video again 👍👍👍 I like such challenges too. Going out in the storm, in the rain, in the freezing cold (if we currently had any 🤔) or my daily five-minute cold shower. But it's very hard to convince my children and, especially, my wife how good it is for us, for our health, for our inner strength....but I'm working on it 😉 thanks for the video and, before I get it forget: you are a very good narrator 👍👍👍 best regards from Germany. Stephan
Thanks, Stephan. As with placebo and sauna I think it works best for those who believe in it fully themselves. So the question would then be how to get the young ones to value and pursue not necessarily our advices, but the best of our ways, tradition and roots. That's part of my goal in life as a historian, to help those who come after us finding meaning and motivation through inner strength, values, culture and roots.
@@VikingStories Yes, and it was precisely this spirit that immediately won me over to your channel. You are certainly right: you have to believe in these things, stand behind them in order to feel their full strength and I have noticed and my family has seen it by my example, how it made me stronger and I want to pass this on to my children. Just as they should know and apreciate their roots and traditions. But step by step. For now I'm glad that my older children follow me out into the nature into the woods and sometimes sleep outside with me under the stars. The forest is an excellent teacher as well 😉 ...
Thank you friend for another great video. The clan got communities here in the United States are all but destroyed. It seems like it's every man for themselves, or in many places our people have been pushed out and no longer exist. Here in Pennsylvania where I've lived my whole life, where my friends and family have lived for Generations, we are now the minority and the effect has been beyond devastating. I can tell you personally to walk around my hometown to see the churches empty and being torn down, to see every new neighbor and new business being opened by foreigners, some days I see only non English-speaking people, no I live in a small coal-mining town of only a few thousand. I don't live in a big city
I'm actually glad it was too windy to talk. I like the effect of just the windy seashore weather and you struggling against it, with the calm relaxed commentary dubbed in over top of it. It kind of gave the video a more poignant feel than if it was a sunny calm day and you were just talking as you walked. So to speak. Or if you had tried to shout your head off trying to talk over the wind as you walked. That wouldn't have worked so well, given the conditions.
Du gjør det du må, det vil Storm også. Håper vi sees i 2030 hehe. Jeg tror du ville samlet mange i et Joe Rogan lignende konsept, vi må alle finne vår egen vei.
I1's can wiggle, R1a have wide hips, I can beat you both but that is space, Quicker, faster stronger- both of you loose. So the game is not to getting caught in a phone booth with and R1a, nor get caught in a running twisty arm fight with an I1, but to have distance and use speed to utterly demolish the other guys cranium---- American Football- I know both of you.
Thankyou, Brother.
Good inspiration.
I'm soon to head to the opposite pole, no longer to see the Northern Asters, to see the last of my kin aft 38 years of travelling the world.
I'll miss the dark Atlantic...
;}
Beautifully stated. All peoples everywhere evolved in ecologies which made or broke them and in the differing ways of which each ecology demanded them to evolve, to thrive, to survive. Differences in looks is but the tip of the ... (smiles) ... "iceberg", which created our beings, inside "and" out. I wish people could grow to appreciate their uniqueness, instead of hating others for theirs. What a world that would be, and there would be no end to what we could as a united peoples, achieve. Thank you so much for being who you are. My ancestors are from Scandinavia, and I am exceedingly proud. I am the result of their existence, and I honor them deeply.
What a fantastic piece of art. You are more than a historian, my friend.
agreed ! ! !
the harsh invirornment will either shap you or break you toughness is in our DNA a gift from our forfedre forged from long hard journeys...god dag min venn 🐾🐺🐾
Amazing scenery Sturla, I love to walk in stormy weather, it’s a connection.
Nice Germanic boar brother
townbythetown thank you 👍🏻
I discovered Bjorn and through him you. I have listened to my instinct and I hear them in the two of you.
Thank you my viking Brother.
Great thoughts,beautiful imagery.Thank you!
There is a certain style to this video, great camera work, and the way you open a window on your thoughts through the scenery and the storm , that is part of you , it feels like I am looking at the life force of viking ,,,,,,, great stuff really enjoy your videos
Wild weather . Love it . That was quite poetic . Thank you.
"What's Sig doing?"
"He's shouting at the winds again with ice clattering in his beard, that madman."
So happy to of found your channel, thanks you Bjørn. I am going to watch all of your videos. I was born in Rorvik Norway and my parents took me to Canada in the mid 1960s. In my heart and soul I feel that I never left there. I am thankful for videos like this. 🙏🙌👍👏
What a wonderful video! Natures power is such a magnificent thing to experience!
My favorite beach days are the stormy, white capped waves kind of days. I now live by the mountains and looking forward to the snowy storms coming. I always think of my ancestors who made it through every storm, and maybe that's just my way of connecting with them. I appreciate this video very much.
Love this video. One day I will finally retrace the steps of now long-distant ancestors and stand there on those shores myself and face those winds and oceans. Aussie here so I cannot help but reflect on Aussie culture (outside the big cities) as I think on these things. We often have the opposite elements to deal with - suffocating, relentless heat, weeks on end of temperatures near 40 degrees Celsius, and many 40-45 degrees days and even more with wild, hot winds like dragon's breath, droughts and raging bushfires. You have got to be tough to survive out in the outback. Farming and raising cattle in Australia's conditions is incredibly tough. And our fair skin is better suited to your climate than ours. I spent much of my time growing up around the ocean, and there faced wild storms and winds at times, though always only passing rather than the relentless winds up north. Once as a teen, I had climbed a small mountain (let's say hill by Nordic standards, but we call it mountain!), a favourite place that overlooked the ocean and I saw a storm rolling in from out at sea. I found a rock shelter on the mountain and watched the storm roll in and over the mountain, lightning and thunder all around, thrashing wind and rain. It was like facing Thor or God or something out there alone on the mountainside, terrifying but awe-inspiring. I even was nearly accidentally drowned in the ocean (by my sister!) in a game that went horribly wrong, so I shared with the ocean those moments where I thought I faced death. What I have never faced is the North. The cold, the eternal dark, the relentless winds, the ice and snow and blizzards, the wild oceans I have seen footage of. And those things have always held great fascination to me, and inspired my desire to visit or even work in Antarctica. The physical environment absolutely shapes us. If that environment is a dirty city, holed up in air-conditioned comfort, then what children will we raise? I think it is important to raise children in a culture that values grit and determination, but I guess especially within family this can be balanced with softer qualities that are also key to the well-being of our people. Balance. Always balance is key.
Great words 👍 and I am sure you've lots how history in your genes which help you with both grit and determination. Have a great Weekend
After a DNA test, I discovered 98.6% European, growing up on my father's heels although being a girl, he always made my life exciting when he finally came home from work!
In short of everything, it was very hard to find a man to marry like my father, to me he was a viking! He taught me the many facets of life, ancestry & history! Now I want to learn more about the viking in me.
What a tremendously powerful video Sturla! I came here from Bjørn's channel. You mentioned there that you're working on a big project concerning DNA and the roots of the Vikings. I have been fascinated since childhood with their harsh life, thirst for adventure and exploration, bravery in battle, the gods that shaped their thinking and ideas. I am surely interested in what you will discover with your project, especially when it comes to DNA. I am absolutely thrilled that Bjørn introduced you to all of us. Tussen takk!
💪🏼 This is my now favorite channel! 🍻 Skál Sturla!
That looks like just my kind of place. Originally from an island in Alaska, I now live in a hot sandy place, New Mexico. I long to get back to the oceans and mountains. I have not been to Norway, YET, but it looks very familiar. Lovely video!
You are very eloquent, a skill that is rare, I encourage you to do more writing and videos like this one.
I am from Australia, but have grandparents from Denmark. I recently moved to Trondheim in part to rediscover my roots, if you are ever around this way, it would be great to have beer.
This sounds strange, but I just want to hug you for making this peace of poetry and also for somehow understanding how I feel at the top of a windblown mountain top, face into the onslaught, free, alive, invincible, but also temporary and insignificant. This is Beautiful! You describe the nobility and masculinity of men that I grew up with, gentle giants. Loving, with an inner masculine strength that every time I try to find or describe in the US I am not comprehended.
Many thanks, Ann. Gentle giants, that is a nice description 😊
This video is great! Love the narrative style while you are walking facing the wind. It just sets the scene on which you are talking about! There is truths for everyone in what you say! Thanks again! Truly inspirational!!
Many thanks!
What a beautiful video, I love the way you filmed and narrated. Profound words. Thank you.
It is So Beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love your videos....you just dont make enough of them ......Also I am So happy to find out that americal was discovered by Vikings ! ! ! !
NICE!!
Du har en fantastisk berättar röst.!
And Interesting!!
True, I can so much relate to your assumptions as in regards to such experiences.
This is art. You are an artist!
Jeg bor noen timer sør for deg med båt. Dette var bedre enn alt som er på tv. Jeg skulle gjerne likt å hørt deg på norsk.
Takk. Jeg jobber med noe på norsk ;) (ikke youtube)
@@VikingStories Vær så snill å produsere noe på norsk, fordi jeg er en tysker fra Bayern og jeg tenker at jeg kan lære mye verdifullt av deg. Du har en klar og mannlig stemme alle som vil lære norsk med deg forstår veldig godt. Takk skal De/du ha.
@@NeutraliseTheWorld «De» regnes som ganske gammeldags og formelt, men hyggelig å se noen bruke det! Fin høflighetsform.
@@Vingul Takk. Ja, mentaliteten i Tyskland er mer formelt og strenger. Det gjenspeiler seg i bruk av ord, tenker jeg. Kanskje kommer jeg til å få muligheten til å oppleve hvordan man snakker i Norge i egen person.
Florø 😍, my favourite place to be, been there twice in the last 3 years.
Hilsen fra Bergen!
Beautiful views. Also great video. I loved this. I have two young boys. So these words of yours rang true in my mind and soul. Good day to you. Thank you for sharing this.
Loved this video Sturla.Keep up the great work.
I have many interests, and watch many videos. Yours are my favorite. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge.
Wild and wonderful Sturla.Love and support from the U.K.x
Your videos are helping me understand where I come from, and why I know what I know. Keep making them.
Absolutely amazing video. The awesomeness of nature never stops fascinating me. And you are such a great orator it makes me reflect on my own upbringing here in Northern Ontario Canada. Thank you so much.
It was wonderful hearing it from you, what I know inside of myself. Looking forward to watching your other videos. I came here from Bjorn's channel :) I wish you so much success for the future, Sturla. May Peace be with you always :)
Another cool vid Sturla, a humble day to you too sir✌
Great video and wonderful words of advice for developing physical and mental toughness in this ever so weakend world.
Hi Sturia, greetings from a man from Northumbria. I found you recently through Bjorn's channel. Your videos are interesting, informative and give me a yearn for the adventure. Freaky camerawork also! Thank you.
I love the effects you chose to make this video to get the ideas you were trying to bring out.
What an inspiring video! The words - amazing and the video was done in such a creative way!
Beautiful scenery and wonderfully poetic words !!
Inspiring. Also, importantly, we must not forget that WE are a part of Nature, not outside it.
what an amazing place
Beatiful video effects!
Thank you. I'm a descendant of King Harold my grandfather was born in Oslo. He came to the USA when he was 13 with his family.
Hi. Please keep up doing your videos they are inspiring. I have a future video idea for you please. I know your a DNA specialist but I’d like to learn more about the sailing the Vikings did. You touched on it briefly on this video about it taking 5 days to Iceland. I find this very interesting and I’ve been lucky enough to visit Iceland one March and we couldn’t believe the strength of the winds and power waves we saw. I’d like to know what time of year they typically sailed, the navigation, ship deign, success rate. And the rest! Thanks.
Thanks!! That's a great idea! I've sailed several of the Viking routes myself.
I'm told that the sea shanty , was invented by the sailors of slave ships centuries after the vikings, haha ,maybe they can take credit for the word shanty, but can not belive vikings that sailed the longship rowed in silence,,, oh dear of coarse they sang in time , and must have had a name for the type of song that they sang , and they must have had another song apart from "my mother told me"
?????????
I just found your channel (via Bjorn Andreas Bull Hansen) today and look forward to watching your videos.
Such a rich artistic portrayal of a wonderful message and modern mans predicament.
Thank you for that excellent video. Reminds me of a long time ago with a life line around my waist and walking out on an icy steel deck with waves crashing over the bow and getting soaking wet at 20 below zero.
I'm now in the most remote county in Colorado but I think I'll be headed to the shores of Lake Superior soon. Skoll.
What an epic place...awesome video!
Great video
Fantastic vid, Brother! Thank you very much. T.
Loving what you're doing. Keep 'em coming.
I appreciate your videos sir.
Oh my... Very well done! Very well done indeed! Outstanding narration to accompany the lovely weather and rugged terrain. This actually probably explains why I was miserable growing up in central Florida and had to move to a state that has rugged terrain and weather conditions. The annual tropical storms and occasional hurricanes were just annoying and the ever-present heat was stifling! I now happily reside in the Ozarks in SW Missouri, and love it! I still want to visit Norway at least once before I die, tho. If and when that happens, I'd love to meet you.
Hello Sturla. A great video again 👍👍👍 I like such challenges too. Going out in the storm, in the rain, in the freezing cold (if we currently had any 🤔) or my daily five-minute cold shower. But it's very hard to convince my children and, especially, my wife how good it is for us, for our health, for our inner strength....but I'm working on it 😉 thanks for the video and, before I get it forget: you are a very good narrator 👍👍👍 best regards from Germany. Stephan
Thanks, Stephan. As with placebo and sauna I think it works best for those who believe in it fully themselves. So the question would then be how to get the young ones to value and pursue not necessarily our advices, but the best of our ways, tradition and roots. That's part of my goal in life as a historian, to help those who come after us finding meaning and motivation through inner strength, values, culture and roots.
@@VikingStories Yes, and it was precisely this spirit that immediately won me over to your channel.
You are certainly right: you have to believe in these things, stand behind them in order to feel their full strength and I have noticed and my family has seen it by my example, how it made me stronger and I want to pass this on to my children. Just as they should know and apreciate their roots and traditions.
But step by step. For now I'm glad that my older children follow me out into the nature into the woods and sometimes sleep outside with me under the stars. The forest is an excellent teacher as well 😉 ...
Durch Mark und Heide if we had any cold weather? Don’t believe everything the black mirror says
@@stephenpaccone8120 I totally trust my thermometer and that shows me 12°C in February...no ice...no snow.
Durch Mark und Heide yeah to be honest it’s been warm winter in ny also .
Thank you friend for another great video. The clan got communities here in the United States are all but destroyed. It seems like it's every man for themselves, or in many places our people have been pushed out and no longer exist. Here in Pennsylvania where I've lived my whole life, where my friends and family have lived for Generations, we are now the minority and the effect has been beyond devastating.
I can tell you personally to walk around my hometown to see the churches empty and being torn down, to see every new neighbor and new business being opened by foreigners, some days I see only non English-speaking people, no I live in a small coal-mining town of only a few thousand. I don't live in a big city
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Self discipline is everything. Adversity is the greatest teacher.
Im in love with your videos..Tks
So quite i really love these area only the bird noisy its niece to live there...
Sturla: It's 2020. A new decade. Full of opportunities, or perhaps more of the same...
Covid: LOL NOPE
Brilliant!
I'm actually glad it was too windy to talk. I like the effect of just the windy seashore weather and you struggling against it, with the calm relaxed commentary dubbed in over top of it. It kind of gave the video a more poignant feel than if it was a sunny calm day and you were just talking as you walked. So to speak. Or if you had tried to shout your head off trying to talk over the wind as you walked. That wouldn't have worked so well, given the conditions.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
Å vokse opp i Norsk Natur er den beste gaven jeg noen gang kunne få.
Vi bor i det vakreste stedet på jord.
Art
Fantastic
2nd generation born in US from 4 Danish grandparents, still feel the wind.
Underbart.
Americans: go inside in bad weather
Norwegians: go outside in bad weather
Danish Fjords are very Differenz Then Norse Fjords. The Climate in Fünen and Northern Seeland as well on the East Coast of Jütland IS quite mild.
HAH! i guess now This is my favourite video of thyne..
I can relate to facing nature. I chase storms and thrive in that kind of weather.
From A humble Christian Bohemian's perspective - Beautiful
Same as New England and just as rugged!
I'll drink to that! skol!
Du gjør det du må, det vil Storm også. Håper vi sees i 2030 hehe.
Jeg tror du ville samlet mange i et Joe Rogan lignende konsept, vi må alle finne vår egen vei.
Nydelig lile florø
Do you have an Instagram ?
only one post in seven or so years, sturlae. I try to keep my distance to the dopamin effect from social media:)
Viking Stories ahh good for you ! I’d Love to meet up sometime always cool hiking with like minded people
I1's can wiggle, R1a have wide hips, I can beat you both but that is space, Quicker, faster stronger- both of you loose. So the game is not to getting caught in a phone booth with and R1a, nor get caught in a running twisty arm fight with an I1, but to have distance and use speed to utterly demolish the other guys cranium---- American Football- I know both of you.