The blog post 9 years in the making.

By on May 19, 2013 in coaching, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Motivation

It’s funny, you spend a majority of your life training for a moment, dreaming of a moment,  thinking of how you’re going to react, what you’re going to say, what you’re going to do,  and then that moment comes and  you have no words…  well,  that’s  not exactly true, I do have two Words. IT’S [...]

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What about When *I* need Motivation?

By on May 6, 2013 in Motivation

There is a line in the Pearl Jam song “yellow Ledbetter”,  it’s  slightly un intelligible  because of  Eddie Vedder’s signature singing style, that says “ I didn’t know whether I was the boxer or the bag”  well guys, for the past couple of weeks, this kid has definitely been “The bag” I’m not going to [...]

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The Tebow Connection

By on April 29, 2013 in Misc, Motivation

One of the Stories of The day in sports  is the New York Jets  have released   backup quarterback Tim Tebow. I make no bones about being a Big Tebow  fan yet I’ll be the first to admit that I do not believe  he is a great NFL quarterback  so as one of my friends asked [...]

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A Return to A sense of Normalcy

By on April 8, 2013 in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu

To say that my life has changed since becoming the General Manager of Scranton MMA would certainly be accurate, well  OK, maybe not my life  but definitely my focus.  Over  the past 6 months my days have been all work and not a lot of play errr ..train.. not that I’m complaining  because I’d like [...]

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The Role of a coach

By on March 27, 2013 in coaching

Out of all the roles that I hold at the academy, there is probably none that I take more seriously than that of being a coach. Pretty early on in my “career” as a competitive grappler I had a  coach/instructor who, at the time I really admired, basically quit on me and that affected me [...]

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