Folks Ryan with wrestling changed my life here. We've all heard the saying summer wrestling makes winter champions

Well, that couldn't be more true in this day and age and the Spartan combat nationals

Coming up this April 8th through the 10th in Jacksonville, Florida a

Fantastic way to get your off season started you can wrestle freestyle beach Greco folks style in a dual tournament

All under one way in it's going down April 8th through the 10th in Jacksonville, Florida

Check it out now at Spartancombat.com. So in wrestling, you know, there's

It's just you versus the other guy. There's no one else to take the blame or the credit for the outcome of the match

And at the end of the day, you have to go look in the mirror and be like, you know, did I prepare the best that I could?

We can adore anything and

Adapt and pivot and change

Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say that nothing in life has impacted me or the thing's wrestling has taught me in terms of

self-reflection resilience

Toughness some guys have it some guys don't

adversity 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed and

Everything that is shaped my life and

What I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling

For me, you wrestle in the life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled

natural talent helps, but it's it's

5% of the ingredient it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort

It humbled me taught me humility nothing can help you more than wrestling

I think it's the learning to adapt right you learn you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems

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