FranktheTank
10-01-2003, 08:02 AM
Hello All,
My name is Jim. How I came to this forum, like most is a long road. I am 26 (until January atleast) and my journey began in 1996. I was always able to handle myself in a fight and was in good shape as I played lacrosse and lifted regularly, but none of that mattered. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, got jumped and spent two weeks in a hospital. There was never a reason discovered as to why it happened and I really don’t care anymore. However for the 6 years after it happened I did care, it became my identity. I worked at getting over it, but it is shocking how such an event can steal your confidence, your sense of security and make fearful, loathsome and depressed.
I found solace in a bottle and as you can imagine things only got worse. Thearpy was helping but not much, until I had a sort of epiphany: We have this one life, we don’t know what happens when we die and I don’t want to spend the only existence I know of miserable and numb.
To overcome my insecurity I began taking Kempo. While it was fun to be doing something productive and active again it only sparked a furor in me, I want to be the best I can be. My physical condition was in horrid shape, I tried going back to the gym, but the weights didn’t inspire me anymore and the gym rats drove me nuts. A friend of mine introduced me to Matt Furey’s Combat Conditioning and I fell hook line and sinker, but I could not afford his prices so I never got more than the CC book. Eventually, I came across this guy Scrapper. I went to his sight and was amazed that he gave out actual programs for FREE. Scrapper’s stuff lead me to Coach Sonnon.
I have purchased and read Body Flow and love it I am in the process of reading it again. I can not afford clubbells but I do have a viable home made system consisting of my dad’s old school dumbbells (An iron stick and 4 collars, so I can put the weight on one end.) I am more a lurker, I like to read and learn as much as I can. I look forward to the insights that this forum can, and I believe will, generate.
My name is Jim. How I came to this forum, like most is a long road. I am 26 (until January atleast) and my journey began in 1996. I was always able to handle myself in a fight and was in good shape as I played lacrosse and lifted regularly, but none of that mattered. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, got jumped and spent two weeks in a hospital. There was never a reason discovered as to why it happened and I really don’t care anymore. However for the 6 years after it happened I did care, it became my identity. I worked at getting over it, but it is shocking how such an event can steal your confidence, your sense of security and make fearful, loathsome and depressed.
I found solace in a bottle and as you can imagine things only got worse. Thearpy was helping but not much, until I had a sort of epiphany: We have this one life, we don’t know what happens when we die and I don’t want to spend the only existence I know of miserable and numb.
To overcome my insecurity I began taking Kempo. While it was fun to be doing something productive and active again it only sparked a furor in me, I want to be the best I can be. My physical condition was in horrid shape, I tried going back to the gym, but the weights didn’t inspire me anymore and the gym rats drove me nuts. A friend of mine introduced me to Matt Furey’s Combat Conditioning and I fell hook line and sinker, but I could not afford his prices so I never got more than the CC book. Eventually, I came across this guy Scrapper. I went to his sight and was amazed that he gave out actual programs for FREE. Scrapper’s stuff lead me to Coach Sonnon.
I have purchased and read Body Flow and love it I am in the process of reading it again. I can not afford clubbells but I do have a viable home made system consisting of my dad’s old school dumbbells (An iron stick and 4 collars, so I can put the weight on one end.) I am more a lurker, I like to read and learn as much as I can. I look forward to the insights that this forum can, and I believe will, generate.