I have been living in the Bali Power House for one week now and time has really gone by fast! the experience so far has been almost overwhelming. The synergy and atmosphere in the Power House is like nothing I have experienced before! The people here are really cool and we have fun all the time!
We eat healthy food prepared by our chef Tiwi, our rooms and the villas are kept nice and clean due to Ayu who is our housekeeper. Everyone here at Power House loves what they do and it just creates a synergy that is extremely hard to match.
Today we had one of our unique CrossFit sessions … or I guess we should call it PoolCross as we always workout around the pool. We all select an exercise and each exercise is performed in 1 minute and 30 seconds. We usually do two rounds of this which makes it a total of 20-25 minute workout. My goal is to push in a third round, but so far there have been no takers We filmed the event today and I just wanted to show you guys back home how we work out at the Power House in Bali.
Michael and I met up in Copenhagen airport and started our long journey to Bali. The flight took about 22 hours in total and we landed in Doha and Singapore on our way to Bali. We had a short stop at a nice bar/restaurant on our way from the airport to the villas. Satey and Bintang - what a great start
When we arrived at the villas, Michael showed me around and I got to meet most of the other residents here. A really nice group of people! I could tell right away that we would get along easily.
I keep getting distracted by huge lizards swimming in the river below the terrasse where I am sitting … I guess I’ll get used to that soon enough
This is what my current workspace looks like: I have the river below me and to the right I am overlooking a huge rice field. The scenery is just incredible!
It’s my fourth day here and I’m loving it! We have already talked a lot about our project and had a really great short workshop. The game we are working on is going to be loads of fun creating and playing. Coline and Jeff who have been here since mid december are really talented and excited about game development. More about the game we are developing in a later post…
There are quite a number of Danes here and last night we went out with a couple that had just moved here. We started out at their new villa with a housewarming party and then moved on to a place in Kuta called the Sky Garden. This was a huge disco with 4 or 5 floors (can’t really remember hehe), where they played different music for each floor. It was great fun and the show girls at Sky Garden surely know how to put on a show
I’m a little hung over and my ears are still ringing from the LOUD music last night. I think I’ll take a quick dip in the pool and then find a nice spot where I can relax and prepare for our first all day workshop tomorrow.
Here I am … lying in my brothers couch writing this post. I can’t stay in my own appartment, as I have rented it out to my cousin. It’s late at night and I’ve just finished packing … I’m leaving tomorrow morning for Bali!
It’s only been a little over one month since I sent in my video application to Michael Bodekær from ProjectGetAway and since then it’s been an extremely hectic few weeks for me as I’ve had to sell my car, rent out my flat, get leave from my job and a ton of other minor things that I needed to get in order.
If you’ve been following me on this blog, then you know I love to spend time working on my Internet Marketing projects. I really love to market online as it eventually gives me the opportunity to work full time as an entrepreneur. I’ve know for many years that I eventually want to give it a shot as an entrepreneur full time.
When I learned that the team from ProjectGetAway were looking for a founder apprentice I just knew I had to send in a video and apply for the position. They actually had a few positions that I was interested in and knew I could do well, so I created an all round video and sent it in and crossed my fingers.
A few days later, I was sitting in a cafe in Copenhagen with Michael and we had a great talk about the various projects they were running and one project in particular which really caught my attention! Michael wants to create a computer game that teach people how to get started as an entrepreneur and spreads awareness about entrepreneurship. I was hooked! You might remember that I created LifestyleNetworker a few years ago which was going to be an Internet Marketing Management Game so I had a lot of experience from that project and I also have a passion for creating e-learning systems. I was excited and so was Michael!
So here we are a few weeks later getting ready to leave for Bali tomorrow. You see Michael has setup a couple of “Power Houses” on Bali, which essentially are luxury villas where he gathers his teams of talented entrepreneurs where they live and work together on exciting projects. This is also what we will be doing with the entrepreneur game project. We will start on Bali, but the plan is to move to Bandung on Java and find a villa there where we can build a rock star team.
You can follow the progress here on my blog as I will post updates whenever there is something exciting to share
If you want to you can see the video application I sent to the ProjectGetAway team below:
It’s the first day of the new year, and I’ve been looking over my stats for the danish website called Lav Din Egen Hjemmeside which is going to be a complete video guide on how you can setup your own WordPress website. A niche like this would be pretty damn hard to compete in on Google.com but on the danish market it’s a little easier.
I found a neat WordPress theme and think I’ve found a pretty cool color scheme for the site. I’ve written about 10 articles and created 3 videos.
I recently joined up with a couple of guys from the entrepreneur forum called Amino.dk here in Denmark, and they have started a competition to see who is the first to reach an income of 5.000 kr (about $900) in a whole month. I thought it sounded like a cool competition and a great chance for me to try my luck on the danish market.
So I joined with a new site http://LavDinEgenHjemmeside.dk which I registered on December 19th 2011. Some of the other guys had started a few weeks earlier, but for me it was mostly a matter of learning from my danish entrepreneur friends and not mainly winning the contest.
You can follow my progress right here, as I will keep you updated every single month and maybe even throw in a few extra posts if I find it relevant.
The day after my brother Julian competed in his 1st Sprint triathlon here in Copenhagen, it was time for me and for my triathlon friends to compete in today’s event. We were much better off with the weather, as it had dried up and there was no rain the entire day. To me this was really nice, as you can keep all your stuff dry.
Again this is a short Sprint triathlon weighing in at only 400 m swim, 18 km bike and 4 km run. This Sprint triathlon has been named 4–18–4 due to its distance. But it’s a great event, as it is held the day before the Copenhagen Challenge, which is the full Ironman distance where all the pros compete. This means that the facilities, timing and overall management is top notch. There are also a number of spectators out here which is kind of cool.
My friend Anders and I always compete in different sports. Most recently it has been badminton, karate and CrossFit. Now we also compete against each other in triathlons. It’s great fun and we seem to beat each other at various sports. On this day we were also joined by Trolle, Mads and Troy which are some of the other guys we compete with in triathlons.
I believe there was about 800 contestants this day, and we were among the first 50 to start. In this Sprint triathlon they start 50 people at a time with 60 seconds interval. It was really cool to be amongst the first, but if you’re not a strong swimmer, you will experience being run over in the water. It was chaos but it was still good fun!
I created a short video below to show how we all did that day:
I managed to convince my brother Julian to come out and try competing in a sprint triathlon here in Copenhagen. I had been telling them how cool it was to compete in a triathlon and I’m glad that he decided to try it out for himself. He had brought with him his friend Frank from work and it was also Frank’s first triathlon.
We had been incredibly lucky the past years with the Sprint triathlon here in Copenhagen, but this day which was the first day of a two-day event was absolutely horrible. It had been raining the entire day before and the entire day of the event. There was no way you could keep yourself dry. I was competing on the following day and I was just there to film and support. Even I managed to get completely soaked even though I had my huge golf umbrella with me.
I was afraid Jules would lose interest and not be bothered when the weather was this bad. However he was high-spirited and eager to get started.
apparently the swim was the worst part for him as he quickly got water in his goggles and nearly managed to drown himself a couple times. He was super quick on the bike though, and considering the weather conditions the clock a whopping 33 km an hour average. He looked pretty good going out on the run and mentors to speak Frank by a minute or two. They had been following each other all the way through to the run.
Take a look at this short video I shot on the very gray and rainy day at Copenhagen Beach Park.
Wow it’s been a long time since I posted here on NickMartin.com but I have been really busy creating other small niche websites and keeping them updated. However, I really want to share some new information with you, regarding a new set of training shoes I just got for my cross fit sessions. My new and favorite shoes for cross fit are called Inov-8 shoes.
It all started a couple of weeks ago, when I started searching for a new pair of shoes that I could use for cross fit. My Internet search quickly led me to the company called Inov8 shoes, since all the posts on cross fitting forums and other websites led me straight to them. I read a lot of reviews from extremely happy customers, and after browsing their designs, I was absolutely sold on the Inov-8 F-Lite 230 blue and white model.
Luckily for me, I could order these from the USA and have my sister bring them back to me here in Denmark. But of course, that meant I had to wait about 2 weeks after I had ordered them until she came home to Denmark again. Once I got them I had to wait another 3 days for my next cross the training! But the day finally came when I could try my new shoes for the first time.
I am extremely happy with the shoes and they fit perfectly. I even started a new website, dedicated to promoting the Inov-8 shoes, and maybe earn me a small side income from Google AdSense. You can check out the site here: Inov8 shoes.
If I just have to recap quickly the main features of the shoe, it would definitely have to be the incredible light weight design, the snug fit on your foot, the colorful designs, the incredible grip on the floor and the overall coolness of the shoe
June 5th the gang and I went a little north Copenhagen to compete in the sprint triathlon called “Tri på Tyren” which would be translated to “Bull Triathlon”. The name comes from the bike route which is filled with slopes. You are either climbing or going downhill. We had a GREAT day as it was sunny and zero clouds. It was a full days event, as a few of the guys were competing in the Danish Championship in sprint triathlon. The course today was 750m swim in a lake, 24km bike ride on the very sloped course and 5km run.
Trolle and myself were just competing in the standard triathlon (same course) but I really think he should had competed in the Danish Championship as he’s really fast. We were up in the morning and started around 9:30 am where Troy and Mads were starting later around 1 pm. It was a really good sprint triathlon and my first where I was wearing a wetsuit. It all went pretty well but I sure need to work on my transitions as I’m much too slow compared to the others.
The swim part of the sprint triathlon went well and I came in and managed to get out of the wetsuit okay. I won’t bother with socks next time as it just took way too much of my time to change. The bike ride was great all though my computer wasn’t aligned to the wheel so I didn’t know how fast I was biking. The run was really tough as it was hot and I had some pretty heavy legs. Normally I run under 23 minutes for 5km but I was a little worn out here.
Have a look at the video which we all helped film at the triathlon:
Yesterday Troy and myself were out swimming in the ocean in our new wetsuits. It was just an easy 800m stretch to get the feel of our new suits. Also the water was pretty cold for the feet and hands
Today we took another trip to Amager Strandpark where we did a 1100m stretch. It was (obviously) much easier swimming in the lagoon compared to open sea and we didn’t get anywhere near as “sea sick”.
I must admit, it does make swimming that much easier in a wetsuit. The added buoyancy from a wetsuit is tremendous. The only real force you need to apply is forward since you don’t have to struggle to keep yourself afloat.
We’ve got our first sprint triathlon of the year coming up in a few days (750m open water swim, 24km hilly bike ride and 5km run), and that wil also be the real test of swimming in wetsuits. I have to say it takes a real effort getting properly into one of these suits, and we will soon see what kind of stress levels we reach trying to get out of them asap and onto the bike!
We filmed the event today and I just wanted to show you guys back home how we work out at the Power House in Bali.
