#162 Thom Ortiz - NCAA Finalist for Arizona State During the Bobby Douglas Era

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Thom Ortiz is a former 3x All American for Arizona State. He spent nearly a decade coaching with Bobby Douglas at Iowa State before leading the Sun Devils as the head wrestling coach. Today, Coach Ortiz is heavily involved in the MMA community and was recently the focus of a documentary - El Viejo - which chronicles his return to the MMA cage. El Viejo is now streaming on Amazon Prime. SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life online store. We have podcast T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crew-necks, Stickers and more. Go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com to shop. ABOUT THE WRESTLING CHANGED MY LIFE PODCAST Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday. FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	What you say, what are you thinking about yourself and what are you saying about yourself is very important.
0:09.6	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:20.3	I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:26.3	self-reflection resilience
0:28.3	toughness some guys have it some guys don't adversity 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:36.8	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
0:47.0	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:56.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle,
1:07.4	natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort
1:09.4	It humbled me. Thought me humility. Nothing can hit humble you more than wrestling.
1:14.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:16.0	You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to
1:18.0	adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:21.0	You know, if I look back my time, I've spent wrestling wrestling if it gave me one thing more than anything else
1:24.7	it's been toughness.
1:27.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast.
1:30.4	This is your host Ryan Warner.
1:32.0	My guest today is Tommy Ortiz.
1:34.0	Tom was a three-time All-American, an NCA runner-up for Arizona State back in the late 80s, early 90s.
1:41.0	He didn't go on to be the head coach Arizona State. And since then he's been
1:45.0	super active in the MMA community. He was a promoter, he owned a fight league, and
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