Skating across cultural gap
Aug 20, 2003 2:00:57 GMT -5
Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Aug 20, 2003 2:00:57 GMT -5
RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — It is mid-July, and Jordin Tootoo is doing what a top NHL prospect should be doing. He is training. But there are no weight machines or stationary bikes.
Tootoo, 20, is on the Canadian tundra, just below the Arctic Circle — "on the land," as he would put it. Hudson Bay is at his back. Pockets of snow are visible over his right shoulder. He is using nature's Stairmaster — a 100-foot hill lacking a single yard of even terrain. To work his legs, he climbs the rocky incline with a series of powerful standing long jumps — 18 leaps and he's at the top. To work on his upper body, he transports his 102-pound cousin Kelli Hickes on his back. To work his forearms, he switches to two full 5-gallon jugs.
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Tootoo, 20, is on the Canadian tundra, just below the Arctic Circle — "on the land," as he would put it. Hudson Bay is at his back. Pockets of snow are visible over his right shoulder. He is using nature's Stairmaster — a 100-foot hill lacking a single yard of even terrain. To work his legs, he climbs the rocky incline with a series of powerful standing long jumps — 18 leaps and he's at the top. To work on his upper body, he transports his 102-pound cousin Kelli Hickes on his back. To work his forearms, he switches to two full 5-gallon jugs.
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