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Sweet Home Pennsylvania
What’s up Guys? Like the title says, after a long couple of days, I am back in PA after spending four days in Texas/ Oklahoma City doing one of my motivational seminars Actually, I got into town Sunday night around 9:30, just haven’t had the chance to write. Just to give you guys a little [...]
DisabledGrappler Takin Over the Airwaves
What’s up Guys? In anticipation of my visit to Oklahoma which I blogged about on Friday, I made my second appearance on The Judo Podcast with Mike Darter and Gene Shin. This Episode focused a lot on my motivational seminar, thoughts on developing athletes, and even a fun discussion about why judo doesn’t piggyback off [...]
Hitting the Road for 2012
What’s Up Guys? I hope you all had an awesome Christmas and New Year, mine was great. I spent a lot of time with my family, my friends, and the people that I love and now I’m ready to refocus on training. The New Year is going to kick in a big way for me [...]
Guy in a wheelchair walks into a bar…How?
Because a good majority of my day is usually spent getting on or off a mat, I wear sandals a lot, doesn’t matter the weather, I’ve worn them in snowstorms, below freezing weather, whenever. This past Saturday, after training, We had an instructor’s meeting at our favorite hangout, Smiler’s Bar and Grille in Dickson City [...]
The Iowa Style
Although these days it’s getting harder to admit, I am a Penn State fan. Not only of their football team, but of their wrestling team as well, I just about hit the roof two years ago when they hired Cael Sanderson, the greatest wrestler of this generation, away from his alma mater Iowa State to [...]
The Cost of a Dream
“ The Dream Team.” This is the name we have given to The United States Men’s basketball team when they get together and compete under the team USA banner for the Olympics. This is a collection of superstar NBA players put together with the goal of winning a gold medal. However, I believe (not surprisingly) [...]
Ya Gotta Believe
About a week ago, after his loss to UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo, title contender Kenny Florian said “I just have to realize that not everyone can be a champion” Now while he is 100% correct in his statement not everyone in their career is fortunate to win a title, this immediately threw up a [...]
“Let’s Roll”
“Lets Roll”. As Grapplers, we say these words almost every training session we take part in as a way of asking our training partners to spar, but Today on the 10th anniversary of the atrocities of September 11th 2001, those two words carry a whole new meaning. Those Two words, of course, were the rallying [...]
Man in the Mirror
I’m sitting here after practice thinking about what’s on the horizon for me grappling wise and I flip on the TV and the Michael Jackson documentary this is it is ending on showtime and I’m listening to the song “Man in the Mirror” play as the credits roll to a close. Now, normally, this wouldn’t [...]
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