On this planet there are a ton of amazing feats that a man can complete to pump up the old man-o-meter. Beating bears to death with a stick (See: Jim West), fighting a shark under water (See: Craig Clasen) and being credited with over 700 kills in a war (See: Simo Häyhä) are all excellent ways to show that you are a real man. A guy who lesser men tremble before.
There is another challenge that will push a man to his absolute limit. A challenge so manly that it makes …

There are lot of theories floating around about what it actually means for a boy to become a man. I thought that the man institute could use a quick rundown. Maybe we can finally get to the bottom of this great mystery.
1. When you turn 18.
At least this is what the law says. When you turn 18 you are legally an adult and can be tried in court as one. So I guess that completely technically speaking, this is the right moment. This is the moment when a boy becomes …

If you learn nothing else from your time spent at the Man Institute, remember this: manliness is inversely related to the amount of equipment used when attempting to achieve a goal. That is, the more equipment you need to get the job done, the less manly the act is.
Take hunting, for instance. Hunting on its own is a fairly manly activity. You grab your favourite rifle and head off into the bush to camp and hike and eventually kill an animal. Manly, yes, but there is still room for improvement. …

It is admittedly long overdue, but given recent events it’s clearly about damn time we write some articles about hockey. In this, the first volume of hockey manliness, some of the manliest people to play one of the manliest positions the sporting world has to offer, the great goalies.
Jacques Plante
I’m sure many of you will know Jacques Plante as the first goalie to wear a mask. You’re all wrong. Plante did, however, design the first fiberglass goalie mask and the first to wear a fiberglass mask in the NHL. Now …

Guest post by by: Liberty Kontranowski
All work and no play makes Jack a real pain in the ass. So if your days tend to rival those of Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, maybe it’s time you get yourself a hobby – but not just any hobby. Leave the golfing and bowling to the guy next door and up the pastime ante with a manly quest like the five super cool and slightly extreme hobbies listed below.
B.A.S.E. Jumping
B.A.S.E. jumping consists of hurling your body off of four major categories of …

The majority of Olympic sports have had their spots in the games for many years and additional sports getting added is somewhat rare. The winter games have seen some improvements with the additions of snowboarding events and skeleton. It’s now time, again, that the winter games opened their doors to the manliest of all winter sports, Icecross Downhill Skating.
On Jan. 20, 2000 this fantastic new sport was first seen as people from all over the world flocked to Stockholm to see the races. It was a spectacular event, despite being designed …

There’s no getting around it: The economy sucks. Unemployment is through the roof and every aspect of daily life is affected by it. One of the first casualties of pursestring-tightening is the gym membership. What was once taken for granted is now an unaffordable luxury. And it doesn’t help that bacon is the last casualty. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways to keep in shape on the cheap. Here are five ideas that’ll make sure that even though you may be down on tough times, no one will kick …

In one of my earliest articles I chose Tsutomu Yamaguchi as a more than deserving topic. Clearly any man who survives having two atomic bombs dropped on him in three days has earned the highest honours that the Man Institute can bestow. On January 4th 2010, the world lost one of it’s manliest men. The current life expectancy at birth in Japan is slightly over 88 years and the average number atomic blasts survived is zero. Yamaguchi died at the age of 93 despite decades of illness caused by radiation …