#78 BJ Futrell - NAVY Assistant Coach and 2X All American for Illinois

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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BJ Futrell is one of the best wrestlers to come out of Illinois in the 2000's era. He won two state titles for powerhouse Mt. Carmel HS, going 85 matches without surrendering an offensive point. In college, he was a 2X All American for the University of Illinois and was ranked #3 his senior year before suffering a career-ending injury. After college, BJ competed on the international circuit for nearly 7 years and is now the assistant coach at Navy. This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life Store. Please go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com if you'd like to support the show.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	Yeah wrestling has changed my life in so many different ways. It taught me
0:07.0	self accountability. It taught me about ownership and how to directly relate my
0:11.8	actions to a given outcome. It taught me how to do an honest
0:16.0	self assessment and evaluation and make changes. It taught me how to deal with disappointment
0:21.6	and not let my heart get sick.
0:25.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.
0:32.0	Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:34.0	I would say nothing in life has impacted me
0:36.6	or the things wrestling has taught me
0:38.7	in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:42.1	Toughness. Some guys have it, resilience. Toughness.
0:43.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:45.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:50.0	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.
1:00.0	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:06.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:21.0	It humbled me, thought me humility.
1:24.2	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:27.8	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:30.4	You learn, you learn how to adapt,
1:32.1	you learn how to solve problems.
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