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Snap Judgment

On The Mat - Snap Classic

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Storytelling, Performing Arts, Music, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Snap, Society & Culture/documentary, Personal Journals, Arts/performing Arts, Arts

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A one-legged high schooler wrestles with his identity and his weight class. A story featuring tough opponents and big decisions. 

The Wrestler With The Missing Leg

Anthony Robles was born with one leg, but that didn’t stop him from joining the wrestling team. If you want to learn more about Anthony’s story and his career as a motivational speaker, check out his website and be sure to read his memoir, Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated. 

Producer: Joe Rosenberg    

Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio

Season 8 Episode 18

"On the Mat" - Snap Classic 

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios

0:10.5

Snapers, do you know at one point?

0:14.3

I got a call from the power set B saying Snap was canceled.

0:19.2

That was a very, very, no good, very bad day, but I realized

0:25.6

that the power set B didn't own this show.

0:29.2

You own this show Snap is. That's why I'm asking you to support it.

0:33.8

Right now at a level that makes sense for you at snapjudgment.org.

0:38.9

If you've ever been unable to get out of the car, the kitchen, the office,

0:43.2

until you heard the end of the story, please become one of us and support this show that makes it happen.

0:50.0

That Snap Judgment.org because it doesn't happen any other way.

0:55.9

You can get Snap stuff, including music, a chance to pitch your story or backstage pass to

1:02.8

spook live if Snap Story telling is in you. If you depend on this show, please stop for just a moment.

1:11.5

Stop the show. For just a minute and join at a level that makes sense for you.

1:17.2

Snap Judgment.org. I promise you the best sleep ever and a grin on your face when you leap out

1:24.0

of bed in the morning. What a deal. Snap Judgment.org. Thanks.

1:54.9

Now, I'm excited because the best ass whippers are the ones you don't see coming and nowhere.

2:02.6

But no one knows a beat down. Like Snap Judgment's Joe Rosenberg. Joe, take it away.

2:24.4

Anthony Robles' story starts, unlike most people's stories, actually, really truly, on the day he was born.

2:31.4

Well, you know, the story that my mom told me, she was 16 years old when she was about to have me.

2:36.9

And she tells me that when I came out, she could tell right away, even though she was kind of loopy

2:42.7

from the medication, she could tell right away that something was wrong. Just how quiet it got and

2:47.6

how the doctors were looking around. And they basically, they rushed me right out of the operating

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