Monthly Archives: March 2019

My First Amateur Boxing Match

When I was about 13 years old, 1973 and training with Godin exclusively I actually got a pulled hamstring. During the early training, I love to throw kicks especially high kicks my hands were pretty much straight punches and then a variety of kicks I hadn’t really introduced hooks into my arsenal yet. Well, the […]

Tony Robbins Life Changing

I was lucky enough to meet Tony Robbins in 2005 when Chuck was training for Randy 2.Tony was kind enough to visit our gym. We also went to his seminar in Los Angeles. I became friends with Tony, and we talked on the phone and texted occasionally. I remember one time I was depressed about […]

The Yin & Yang Of Walter Godin

Walter Godin was far from a saint, in fact from most people’s perspective, Godin would be more the Cobra Kai Sensei, than Mr Miyagi. Godin spent time in prison a few times, and he did have some definite violent tendencies , I know this for a fact.  Though I saw Godin’s flaws, he always cared for […]

404 Piikoi

As a child growing up in Honolulu Hawaii, I remember hearing stories about “Kill Haole Day”, and how it got really bad an intermediate school, which was grade 7 through nine back then. I was a skinny boy with long blonde hair, Not the kind that could be mistaken for anything but a haole. I […]

A Great Team: Iceman & Pit Master

In 1990 when I moved form LA to Arroyo Grande, I was getting busier working the ER making money and winding down my fighting career   I still did like to train very hard and liked to try and find the toughest guys around to train and spar with, and in the process got kind of […]

Loyalty vs Fidelity

I always separated these two words, loyalty and fidelity.  The way I grew up loyalty was honorable, and noble. It was something you were to your boyz, your team, your martial arts school, army unit, and your family.  Fidelity, on the other hand, was only talked about in relation to romantic couples.  I was filled […]