I must say...

I have not done a very good job keeping up with the blog as of late. I am going to attempt to update it regularly.

I must say my students are doing a tremendous job in there training, I push them to the limit and beyond each and every week and they hang in there like the Warriors they are.

Hell Week...

Well last week was Hell Week for the MMA students, on top of that Ray Gilbert and Jeremy Jones tested for Phase 2. It was a grueling test and they never once gave up, their will was strong through the entire test.

I am kind of depressed that Hell Week is over....For those of you that don't know, Hell Week is a extremely intense week of training in which I put all of the students through....well.....HELL each and every workout of the week. Once the week is concluded each student most definitely feels a sense of accomplishment and slight soreness.....lol...

WORLD KEMPO CHAMPION ONCE AGAIN...

DRAGON SPIRITS OWN RAY GILBERT RETURNED WITH 5 GOLD MEDALS, 2 BRONZE, and 1 SILVER from the World Kempo Championships held in Faro, Portugal.

There were 26 countries in attendance and he obliterated the fighting divisions. I am proud beyond words. He trained so hard this last year, fought through every ache and pain that I put him through and it more than paid off. I am honored to have had the opportunity to help him prepare for the Championships. He is a Warrior in every way and he just keeps getting better and better.

Ray we are all proud of you so much...

Xtreme Couture

On Saturday April 5th Jeremy, Big Mike and his son Joseph, Josh, and myself all took a trip to the Xtreme Couture gym in Independence Missouri. We looked around the gym, spent too much money in the pro shop and watched 12 fights. We had a blast, it was actually the most fun I have had in a long time. I would like to thank Jeremy for taking all of us and Big Mike for planning the trip and getting the tickets. The fights themselves were decent, not extremely impressive but not horrible. Seeing them just made all of us want to step into the octagon even more. The current plan is to have a team ready by the end of the year with as many different weight classes as possible so that we can represent the school well. Becoming a member of the team will be invitation only and will be based on your abilities and level of conditioning. So those of you wanting to be a member of the team...Get Ready....

An Inspiration...

On Monday the 31st Dan DeWelt honored us by coming to our facility and talking about motivation as well as sharing some of his amazing experiences and insight into training. There have been very very few people in recent years that I have been amazed by and Dan is one of those individuals. I am thankful that he took the time to come speak at our school.

Remember what you can conceive and if you believe you can achieve.

Meet Dan DeWelt

The following link is the Hall of Fame page for Dan DeWelt. I still can't believe he is 64 years old....

www.scottishmasters.org/hofdandewelt.html

I HATE RULES....and LIMITATIONS

I study and train constantly, I am just never satisfied with anything I do in any endeavor. Something that aggravates me to no end is people who adhere to the rules and limitations of self proclaimed know it alls. I read the newest and latest training information as soon as it comes out, just so I can learn more. Not so much for the sake of learning but to see what I can do to make my body and mind more efficient in every capacity. Something that I have realized in the last year is that the human body can do so much more than I ever previously thought. I once believed that you couldn't train hard multiple times in a day without dying after a few days. I finally decided to throw out the "rules" of training that I had heard and read about over the years and decided to push myself past my perceived limitations. For a while now I have been training 4 times a day minimum and in some cases five times for five days a week. Some people would say that is extreme over training. I have found out that experience is the best and most harsh teacher.

No one knows your body like you do. No one can push you to your potential and beyond except you.... The main thing that I have done is listen to my body and train accordingly, if I find myself not mentally into a session then I change it up, if I feel that my performance on the mat is regressing then I change things. Some days you feel like you can lift the world and some days you feel like the world fell on you....

Don't ever believe you are average or mediocre...