BUILD TORPEDO TOUGHNESS
May 20, 2021
3 minutes
BY MILO F. BRYANT, C.S.C.S.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
AARON OKAYAMA
TORPEDO IN THE GOAL. This is my only thought as I sink to the bottom of the pool during a Deep End Fitness workout in Hawthorne, California. My right hand clutches a ten-ounce camo-colored rubber torpedo. My left hand is free, ready to Heisman anyone trying to keep me from the goal, four yards away.
I swim toward it underwater and get within two yards when Chuck Patterson and Giorgio Gomez, a pair of professional surfers, converge. Chuck comes from the right,
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