About me:
Coach Adam

After wrestling from the ripe old age of three and into my 20’s, spending every weekend of my life in a tournament, winning 8 total state titles in all three styles of wrestling (Greco-Roman, Freestyle, and Folkstyle) along with placing in or winning national level tournaments, I decided a change of pace was in order. I left my full ride university scholarship to pursue a dream many young, naive over-achievers harbor at some point in their lives; a career in the arts... specifically, acting. 

I packed a single suitcase and took a train from rural Michigan and landed on a buddies couch in Chicago. My friends and family looked on in horror as I traded a university scholarship for a job at a hair salon (the only place that would allow me to leave at the drop of a hat so I could make my last minute auditions). As fate would have it, I would soon book a series regular role on a major NBC show called ‘CRISIS’, I played the presidents son, it was incredible. This was truly a stroke of luck. To put it in perspective, for the remainder of my acting career, I would never again book a series regular role on a TV show. I booked many other gigs, but the series regular roles are insanely competitive. You're more likely to become a  neurosurgeon than book a role of that caliber. I booked it on my second audition. Right place, right time. That one major role allowed me to audition for other roles which normally take years of seasoning to get in the door. I got fast tracked, baby.

My career peaked when I booked a lead role in a WW2 film starring Nicholas Cage (it might still be on Netflix or maybe Amazon).

Over the next 10 years, with acting being my only job, I endured insane highs and lows, to put it lightly. Including getting sober and falling completely out of love with the entertainment industry. Apart of my recovery from alcoholism was getting involved in grappling again, but there's really no such thing as an adult wrestling gym so I decided to give this Jiu Jitsu thing a try. I walked into my first dojo and never looked back. Jiu Jitsu gave me stability, direction, and a community I sorely needed.

For years my BJJ coach would tell me I need to make wrestling content and put it online. He and others assured me that my ability to articulate techniques, combined with the on-camera training, would do well on social media. When the pandemic hit and the entertainment business shut down, I finally relented. What started as an 11 video series teaching Jiu Jitsu practitioners the basics of how to approach takedowns quickly became an obsession. Over the following year I would make the careful decision to leave acting forever to become a full time content creator, specifically, when my audience themselves started requesting premium content.

So I went back into that old school gritty wrestler mode, studying what makes good content and what doesn’t. I knew in order to create an audience big enough to sustain myself I would have to make killer content. Content that would not only attract the BJJ practitioners who want to learn wrestling already, but motivate others to do the same. Why?

Frankly, because wrestling will never be a mainstream sport. It’s too hard, requires too much conditioning, and discipline for the average man. But that’s what I love about my audience, we’re anything but average. We are the outliers within the outlier martial arts community. We are the grapplers who understand the value of takedowns and don’t make excuses to learn them. And for that, I respect my audience. What that means to me is I owe them every single ounce of effort I have towards improving their takedown game. If I’m going to put in all this work to earn your attention, I damn well better make it worth your while.

My life today is a far cry from the glitz-and-glam acting days in Hollywood. It mostly consists of being behind a computer 12 hours a day, making content to serve my audience, coaching wrestling, and practicing Jiu Jitsu. It brings me immense joy. If you’ve read this far, thank you, it’s people like you who give me the time of day, consuming my content so I can keep on keepin’ on.

So whether you buy my course or not doesn’t really matter. Your support means the world to me, just knowing you've connected with me and invested your valuable time and attention is deeply appreciated. So, thank you for stopping by, I'm genuinely thrilled to have you as part of my journey.

Reminding you to always...

Start standing.

- Coach Adam

PS - Feel free to reach out with questions, comments, or just to say hi. I’d love to hear from you. 
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