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2020 is here.  Not only a new year but a new decade as well.  20219 was great, but, now that I am 60!!!, I want to ramp it up a bit for 2020.  No matter what your age is, let’s all “ramp it up” for 2020.  Believe me, if you do, when you are 60, […]

Me at 60 years old, sitting here reflecting back on my life There are a lot of things I wish I had done differently. I am very happy to say that when I look back on my life, while there are regrets, and many things I wish I had done differently, it makes me very […]

I’m the first to admit I have made a lot bade some bad choices in my life (that’s a different chapter), but believe it or not I have made some great choices as well and that is what this chapter is about. 1. Joining in martial arts gym at 10 years old. Having the feeling […]

The hard truth about my fight career, is basically I hated it. Growing up as a teenager I always had a knot in my stomach because there was always a fight coming up, whether that meant this coming weekend, or next month, there was always a fucking fight coming up and I hated it.Why did […]

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 […]

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 […]

I remember some of the details like it was yesterday, and some of the details just run into each other. I remember it wasn’t too long after I had my first child, Suzanne, and I was working in Venice California as a laborer, taking some classes, in training and fighting. I kept hearing about the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]