Tosabarbell

10/31/2025

If all you offer is ideology, you offer nothing.

08/10/2025

Watch the feet. The feet will tell you how to move in weights.

07/24/2025

Make smoking in public great again.

This is CRAZY 🤯

07/24/2025

Remember that one time the Tosa Tards attempted to dox my page because I didn't bow to the BLM mob and because I said that I liked s'mores? Ya, good times.

04/17/2024

Sneak peak of the future site of Tosabarbell!!

03/15/2024

And talking about Joseph Mensa, 2 of 3 civil cases against Officer Mensah has been dismissed. So, Mayor Meatball McBride for Tosa sold out our community to the BLM/People's Revolution mob for months on end resulting in our city being put on curfew and calling in the National Guard while he allowed the mob to run free AFTER offering up one of his own police officers to said mob instead of backing him for keeping the community and other officers safe.

03/13/2024

Gonna tell my kids this is Joseph Menza.

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02/07/2024

Activists are the stupidest fu***ng people.

01/17/2024

A tale of 2 Caber tosses

Our travels west to throw in Highland Games consisted (hopefully if the calendar hit right) Portland with the next week up in Washington at Enumclaw. However, in 2015 we decided to apply for the prestigious Pleasanton Games and throw alongside the Pro Men's World Championships along with so many other amazing classes. It was amazing...and SO HOT!

To throw Caber and WOB on a horse track with THOUSANDS cheering for you was surreal. To do it in the afternoon sun was scorching! Because Matt and I were on opposite ends of the track, I didn't get to see what he was doing and vice versa, or so I thought.

My 1st two picks were strong but I didn't turn the stick. I had a slight lead going into the event and dropping down to 3rd place was going to kill the hard work I'd done all morning. On my 3rd & final attempt, I was moving down the caber and suddenly got tunnel vision. Nothing existed except for me and that ginormous log. No sound was heard, my feet were floating. Just my hands on the caber and the dirt in front of me. I've never experienced it again, gods know I've tried. I dipped my knees, pulled the everyloving out of the stick and turned it a perfect 12:00. I didn't hear anything, couldn't focus on anything. I turned around and saw our judge's hands signaling twelve o'clock and said, "I hope this is okay" before grabbing him in a huge hug.

After watching the rest of the event, I hot (literally) stepped it under the tent, off the tracks. Most competitors stuck around to watch the big dogs throw caber, I was WAY too hot. A few minutes later, sitting by myself enjoying a few moments of quiet (sorry y'all, I'm an introvert and the social interaction of a Highland Games is stressful amd exhausting for me🤷‍♀️), the AMAZING Nate Parker came back to the tent, saw me and said, "Well your husband just kicked my ass at Caber." WHAT?!!! I demanded details and found out that only Matt and Nate (who went on to win the overall) turned their Caber and Matt edged him out.

When I got up to go find Matt, I was relieved that he was making his way to the tent and I could stay out of the sun.🤣 Matt gave me a huge hug and said, "It's pretty cool to see 5000 people stand up and cheer and then look down the track and realize they're cheering for your wife who just turned a perfect caber." I said, "people cheered?!" He couldn't believe I didn't hear them! 🤣

Matt had this picture framed of us, hot as hell and exhausted, at Pleasanton after our Caber wins along with the medals we received. We also have his Caber win plaque. It is one of our most prized possessions in Tosabarbell and the memories are so very treasured. 🤎

01/10/2024

We've been busy the last 6 months preparing for our move. Packing up the gym will be a bit brutal. We've spent 10 years ensuring tosabarbell had the right energy with the right people in it. I gave zero sh*ts about equity or inclusion, only that clients had integrity and respected the gym. I gave zero sh*ts what races or genders trained here, only that people work hard and didn't derail their progress at home.

The next space won't be any different. Buckle up Minnesota, tosabarbell will soon be on its way.

For now, before we pull everything down, we get to show it off a bit. The Shamrock Games in Springfield, IL was a kickoff to our/my throwing season for many years. We called it the Indoor Highland Games world championship. 🤣 In 2015, with Masters Women still throwing the 28 # weight, I won the WOB overall. I'm super proud of that. 2 elite throwers were in the mix and while they went on to beat me several times, that day was mine. ♥️ So Merl let me take the WOB sign home. Good day and good memories. Also, inside the coliseum was always colder than outside! 🤣

12/13/2023

Bill Maher's response to the simple minded bigots like those at Fitpower LLC...

12/12/2023

FYI for gyms like Fitpower LLC in Milwaukee.