What’s your record? One MMA fighter’s perspective on life.

At 36 years old, I have competed as a mixed martial artist almost half of my life.   One of the first questions anybody ever asks me to this day is, “What’s your record?”  The validity of my passionate life, that I called a career, has ALWAYS been measured in terms of wins and losses.  Essentially, [...] Read more »

Toys 4 Tots: Martial Arts School helping the Community

I knew it would be a grueling 12 hours.  Trying not to think too much about it, I walked into the academy with 3 gis and a half gallon of “Hulk Juice”, well that’s what I call it.  It consists mostly of kale, spinach, cucumber, and whatever pieces of fruit I have laying around.  And of course, if you [...] Read more »

Just throw a towel on your shoulder

The other night at a fighting event, I had a very interesting conversation with a very powerful man in the fight game, probably the most powerful man in the Florida fight scene.  I had never spoken to this gentleman other than the customary and complimentary “hi’s” and “bye’s”.  We spoke on the current state of Florida [...] Read more »

I know what I’m doing

Last April when my program director, Dan Donaldson and I decided to merge my two locations and put them under 1 roof at the Treasure Coast Mall, we did it for one major reason – to get everybody together. We set a plan that would require everyone’s attention to develop a group mind and group [...] Read more »

I’m bored…HMU

If I read the words “I’m bored…hit me up” followed by a phone number on somebody’s facebook status one more time, I’m going to start smacking people. First off, if you’re borrd, what makes you think anybody wants to call you so you can drag them down with your boredom. Secondly, you need to get [...] Read more »