37 with no major bone damage
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Apart from my snout
Still a young man!
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I tried Muay Thai briefly. Maybe 9 or 10 lessons. Was ok but I found teh boxing training much harder!
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I train. Did BJJ for 14 years but my meniscus has kept me away for about a year. I have been doing muay thai for about 4 years and I still do that.
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If we start from jr high wrestling quite a bit up until 29. Have a suredog record. Picked it back up goofing around last December like 1-2x a week. But just moved so idk what the future holds, and Iām ok w that. My knees, back, neck, shoulders, etc. are pretty fād between that and blue collar work. Oh, and I started bc I was really drawn to KB, despite wrestling, then jiu jitsu was crazy I was told by a friend, so I just opted to do both. Should of went to school or enlisted in hindsight, but I have my wife and kiddo now bc of it. Life choices can have huge effects.
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I started wrestling at 5 . Went into boxing at 16 . Took a MMA fight on a drunken dare . Learned a few subs then fell in love with MMA and the training that went it . The rest is kinda history .
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I was fresh out of school, working tech jobs, and to be honest, I was in a bad spot, realistically I was burnt out. LOOOONG hours, no hobbies, low pay, low satisfaction with the missus. I remember Iād come home from work well after midnight, grab a Subway on the way home, eat it on the couch and then fall asleep on the couch around 4AM. Wake up at 9, repeat. It was fucking miserable and my wife and I were pretty much done. I grew up watching pro wrestling, and I think I was falling asleep with RAW on in the background. For whatever reason, I caught Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar. I was aware of the UFC, but Iād never seen anything like it. I remember Rich Franklin giving the speech about how these guys were holding themselves to a higher standard of living, and that a lot of them were people who werenāt satisfied with just being an accountant or a teacher or whatever. Man that fucking resonated. Completely transformed my outlook and direction. Within a year I was doing three a days, dropped probably 40-50 lbs without dieting, just exercise.
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Dad wrestled in high school and would throw me around in the living room (not gay) , then we saw Royce Gracie and we were like we need to learn whatever this jiu-jitsu stuff is.
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My dad was a highschool wrestler. I flew over to my grandparents in Missouri and he flew in from California. We didnāt have shit to do one day so we went to blockbuster and rented all the UFC and watched them all day. It was great. Think that was about 1995 when I was 9 or so
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Oh, and I started training because my gf at the time wanted to try kickboxing. So we do a couple of classes and the coach is like āyou should try jiu jitsu.ā We did. I just sorta never stopped.
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My girlfriend does kickboxing. We should find an abandoned warehouse and make them fight.
Yea, we started renting all the UFC at blockbuster whenever a new one would pop up, that was back when the UFC had some magic to it. I remember I had a friend whos dad bought the original PPV and he came to school ranting about it. I just laughed at him and was like dude thatās WWF, thatās not real. I couldnāt believe they would ever allow two dudes to just fight each other.
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October 1999 and never stoppedā¦
Shes my ex, and hasnt done any training in years. Id pay money to make this happen.
I found. A kickboxing group. 99 quids worth for free and I get a free license.
Sounds like a great deal
Not looking to cause trouble. What the fuck is a kickboxing license? Do I get to fight in that pub were van damme got drunk?
Wrestled in junior high and high school. When I saw the UFCs on VHS I saw wrestlers doing well so I thought it might be something Iād do. I got into MMA because I was getting ready for my senior year of high school, and kind of had the rug pulled out from under me, which ruined my senior year. So I had been training for a solid like 2 months, and went all in on it. I would go to my schoolās wrestling practice, then drive over to do grappling/MMA from 5-6 and 9-11. Had a fight around the Super Bowl of my senior year.
Itās where u have to register Ur fists/knees/shins/elbows to the policeā¦
Unfortunately I have not been able to train for 4-5yrs now.
2.5 surgeries later (over a 10yr span) and possibly another is on its way,.
So the past 4yrs Iāve just been training weights in the gym