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| Monday, June 27th, 2005 | | 10:09 am |
The week before
Well I have to say I am gettin really pumped. I think I may have my conditioning in question as the last few practices I have felt completely out of breath. However this could have to do with the fact I have been battling bronchitis over the last week... I am taking all my medications and had my doctor sign everything so that if I am tested for steroids they know that what comes up is albuterol and not anabolic steroids. The most important part of my game plan for this weekend is to make it as physically hard for my opponent to stay in the match. To make them want to lose. Once I break their confidence than the rest of the match will be easy. | | Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | | 1:33 pm |
I think I have a solid shot at this
Well doing finals now.... Because of the stupid things I have to miss tonight as tommorow I have my biggest final. That and my parents are going to go see a jimmy buffet concert so I gotta watch my brother... The nationals are next weekend and I have my game plan together. Obviously I cant post it online but I feel as if I have put in as much time that I can. I have been drilling all of my techniques and the only thing I feel as though I really need to repair is my main throw. I have had some big victories in the past and looking at what I have up against me I think that its not gonna be easy. I have a few techniques that no one there will know how to react to and hopefully that can get me through. My asthma has gotten suvere in the last couple of weeks. My problem is that my advair and albuterol are technically steroids and because of this I cant really take them. I have however just came across a form on the United States Anti Doping Agency site that if I can get it signed by my doctor will allow me to take them. I feel that I need to work harder on bottom. I am not fighting hard enough off my back or in general on bottom. I need to remember that I need to keep my chin down and go after them on bottom. I they are a good newaza player than they will get me if I just cover up or go limp. Finally (most likely because I've been sick) I am about 147. So that means I'm deffinitely going 66kg. In this weight my big opponents will likely be AJ Silverman, Daniel Oshima, and Francisco Alejando. | | Sunday, June 12th, 2005 | | 2:17 pm |
Gathering myself together
School is almost over, its a battle at the moment. But on to other things... Training is going well, the increased heat has deffinitely upped everything. Just walking down the street I lose weight. Its looking like I am deffinitely staying at the 73kg weight class. I have all the speed of the weight class just below me which will be a huge boost. I dont have the strength that many of my opponents will have, but I have speed and a larger heart as my Ronda was nice enough to comment on. (for those who dont know who ronda is, she won the junior worlds in budapest hungary last year and is tough as nails and also a real good person). My mother wont let me practice more than two nights a week so I have to get in as much as I can for other forms of training. I figure if I dont beat them with technique I will just have to beat the crap out of them. | | Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 | | 3:46 pm |
Update
Haven't updated in a long time so sorry for the lack there of. Am Cans was interesting. Didnt make it to the top three in seniors unforunately but I felt alot of skills come back that I had lost after my shoulder. Namely gripping and the aggressiveness in matwork. All the matches that I won, I won in groundwork. This will be a good stepping off point for the juniors nationals which are in a month. I have also started up my in season training for the junior nationals-fall classic tournaments. I was barely able to get passed the second circuit after all the sprints and running and than the first circuit. I will have to add on the circuit one by one for the next couple of days but if I keep it up than by the third or fourth round at the junior nationals it will be everyone else who will be sucking wind. Also it will be good as my asthma tends to begin to act up by the end of my third match. If I keep up my conditioning than my lungs will most likely not give out as easily. Its also been confirmed that I will deffinitely being going out to the jason morris judo club from july tenth to august eleventh. I will compete at the junior nationals and the junior us open. I will also compete at the fall classic. The junior nationals in ohio I will probably travel with my mom to which will be nice as only a week later I will be gone from the house for a month. Finally school is almost over WOOT!!!!!! | | Saturday, May 7th, 2005 | | 4:09 pm |
Well guess not
Well I got a bunch of emails asking that I continue to run the blog. I will not be updating often due to time issues but I guess I will keep it going. Also in reguards to terms Koka= Eight Point (just a note none of these scores with one exception being wazari add up to become higher scores I.E. I could have two kokas but doesnt mean I have a yuko) Yuko= Quarter Point (one yuko is worth more than all the kokas that can be scored and the same goes for the rest of the scores) Wazari= Half Point (two of these and you win) Ippon= Full point (automatic win) Matte: Stop and start back in starting positions Hajime: Begin Osaekomi: Pin is inniated | | Friday, May 6th, 2005 | | 11:27 pm |
Morris Cup Results, New Plans, and Good Bye
Well I had a bad day at the morris cup. A real bad day in general. Found out I had forgotten to send a confirmation email well I was on my way to albany about canada so didnt end up going. That kinda threw me off, plus I knew my mom was upset about me not being around. Call me a mommas boy or whatever but I love my mom very much and dont like to see her (or my dad) upset. I ended placing third in juniors and nothing in seniors. Its looking more and more like we will officially have a team going for my club. Mike DeMartino has come back full time to judo is planning to compete in the Fall Classic where I will also be competing. Another one of my team mates George Pissimississ has decided to go for the next olympic team. Radu Brestyan placed third in the senior nationals and is well on his way to hopefully his first olympic team. Hopefully if I keep training hard I will join them. I have recieved alot of flak from kids at school about my olympic dreams, and not without reason. I'm clumsy, come off as a nerd, and a bit of a show off when it comes to class discussion. Overall I am the point of every joke on the wrestling team and that is not fun to say the least. Which is why I have been evading going and training at the extra wrestling practices although I will be starting them back up soon. I have also recieved much ridicule on the internet (although this I probably deserve) and from what it seems like come off as an ignorant smart ass. Hopefully I will be able to show everyone in a few years that I can back up what I say. If I dont, than what can I do wrong by trying. If we dont have our dreams than what do we really have. I have decided after running this journal for a few months now that if I want to do what I want to do I cant be lying around spending time on the internet. I have to focus all my energy into three things: Judo, School, and the people around me. If I dont make sure that those three things are going well than I cant do anything with my life. So because of this it is goodbye from my blog. In closing I have to say that this blog is really an attempt to record my thoughts down somehow, and for those who have read it I thank you for doing so. Even the guy who got on and started insulting me thanks anyways for the feedback. Hopefully if there is one lesson in all of this it is to follow your dreams with everything you are. Because if you dont in 30 years you could be sitting down and realizing that you had a chance however slim to make them come true and you didnt take it. I dont want that to be the case, so I dont care if I get all the ridicule, insults, and obstacles physically possible, I WILL fight as hard as I can to continue my dreams and turn them into realities. Follow your dreams Chris Round rapton88@hotmail.com | | Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | | 10:28 am |
States, Morris Cup, Training Camp, and some other stuff
States did not go real well, I have been very angry about one match in particular where I had my opponent tapping out on the ground from a strangle and the ref didnt count it. Also the ref called matte when I put the guy in a pin and gave him a yuko when I went to do a british strangle. Basically that was what kept me from state title. I know winning a state championships is not big but every tournament I go to I have always picked up second or third place. I just want to go to one of these things and come home having won all of my matches. I really think I need to produce a first at some tournament before the junior nationals. I think its a mental thing really but its just something I feel I have to do. Morris Cup is next weekend, I have a good idea of who I will be fighting for the top of the podium there. In my weight there will probably be a few brown belts so it will be a tough tournament. My main opponent next week that I may have to watch for will Jeremy Ligget from the JMJC. I will not be posting my game plan for this kid as you never know who could be reading this but I have something very special whipped up for both him and AJ Silverman in the seniors. If everything goes well (basically if I suck up enough to my parents) I will be heading to a training camp in canada with the JMJC which will be pretty cool. The camp will be great since its about three weeks before the am cans and about two months before the nationals. I found out that I was born one day before the cut off for juvenile b (15-16) so I am fighting the under 20 division. Also on another note I just wanna say thanks to everyone who has been reading this stuff. | | Thursday, April 7th, 2005 | | 8:04 pm |
Liberty Bell than States
Ok wells heres my report for the liberty bell First Match: Threw Ippon Seoinage for ippon in about ten seconds Second Match: This match barely made it past ten seconds. Threw the guy for ippon Third Match: Choked out this player after about a minute Fourth Match: I lost this match, went in seoinage and made a bad attack and got countered Fifth Match: Beat the crap out of this guy. It was a canadian kid who I have had some issues with off the mat. Threw on his face a few times, and turned him various shades of purple three or four times before he finally tapped out. Sixth Match: Match for Third Place This match was going in my favor for most of it. Threw the guy with a single leg. That was the closest thing to a score that I made. I attacked Osoto Gari and was countered harai which ended my day. Well I am happy for the most part with how hard I fought, not happy with the result. Lost two matches do more to stupidity. Never attack Osoto on righties, and always commit to your attacks... I have states this weekend. This is my qualifier for the nationals. Looking forward to it as I will have a shot to take down Daniel Oshima who is the one kid in massachuesetts who I have never managed to beat. Almost beat him the last few times I fought him so I am hoping the gap has gone in my favor at this point. | | Friday, March 25th, 2005 | | 11:43 am |
Finally an update
Alright well my internet is back up so here we go I have the liberty bell next weekend so I have begun losing weight slowly for this event. My stradegy generally for sucking weight for judo is to cut down to about two or three pounds (1kg) above my desired weight class. Than I stay right around there for about a week till it comes time for the day of weigh ins. In that situation I start sucking weight but it isnt that bad as its only a few pounds. This makes things alot easier. I decided to cut down to 145 for this one. Last night I weighed in at 149, I feel like probably 150 atm. So I am not to far off. The shoulder is back in condition and my timing appears to at last have returned. Wednesday night was a perfect example, where not only was I getting in alot of throws and attacks, but I was manaing to hold my own decently against the blackbelts. Thursday night this was not the case but thats life. The liberty bell tournament in philadelphia will be excellent because if I place in the top three it will get me on the national roster for both mens and juniors. This will deffinitely help me for making the junior worlds. I am noticing alot of issues right now just mentally, less with judo and more as a whole. However I dont think its to serious and its just the change of seasons. Current weight: 150 | | Thursday, March 17th, 2005 | | 9:17 pm |
:( Timing,Life, and the Liberty Bell
Well I had my first standing randori in two months last night. I had never fought so badly in my life. I was a joke, I cant believe just how stupid I was. I walked into everything imagineable and I was out of breath the whole time. I might have just had a bad night, but that was ridiculous. I was so sad that I had lost so much timing and standing technique that I found myself crying very badly when I went to sleep. Still bothered me all day and even now I still feel pretty sad. On top of it I woke up to being unable to move right arm because it was so stiff. Its feeling alot better now and I have most of the flexibility back, it just hurts. Started my lifting and running program, that will put me back to where I need to get to. Will be heading down to the liberty bell with some friends, I really want to do well with this tournament. My timing will hopefully be back by than. I really hope so. Well I am gonna go start my home work, good night. | | Friday, February 25th, 2005 | | 7:24 pm |
| | Saturday, February 5th, 2005 | | 8:27 am |
Realized Opportunities
I just realized something that could help me incredibly Now with shoulder having put a stop on any serious practicing for now, and most kinds of weightlifting, I figured all I had left was lifting with legs and running. I just realized I had totally forgotten about some off the grip stuff I had been meaning to work with. Particularly off the grip throws. If you can win in that first exchange, than thats it, the match is over, on to the next round. Just like life, if you can get rid of a problem before its gets bigger, than thats it, its over. Particularly I am looking at working on perfecting some lefty off the grip throws to help keep my opponent guessing. I am going to talk to my dad about working on this stuff, hopefully he wont have a problem. However if any problems arise in my shoulder, I will imideately be forced to stop. | | Friday, February 4th, 2005 | | 9:11 pm |
Shoulder and Stomach Flu
Well, I had my shoulder checked out..... I am out for three weeks do to a fractured growth plate, and possibly damage to a rotator cuff. I am going through an MRI next week to have it looked at. That and I have been sick for most of this week with the stomach flu. Well, when it rains it poors. One other note, I got a schedule of events from Jimmy of what events he wants me to go to, I am not feeling to great right now so I will talk about that later. | | Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 | | 8:38 am |
Training Camps, end of my season, seperated shoulder, and looking at the liberty bell
Well now, heres what happened last weekend. Thursday, went got the basic schedule, learned exactly what we are doing for the camp. Found out what times I have to be where and so on. Friday: Show up at 6:45 on Jimmy Seniors Door step. Perhaps I have not described jimmy senior before. He stands about five foot ten, balding, usually has a cigar in his mouth. He is one of the most incredibly intimidating looking people around. He is also one of the greatest coaches this world has seen. He is high quality athletes left and right. He is also a very good person, and a great cook. Anyways, learned some basic lifting technique and did circuits. Than had breakfast. At the camp who was staying there was: Dave Ellis (ranked 3 in the country), Tarajae Williams Murray (60kg 2004 olympian), Aaron Kunhiro (number one ranked at 55kg which is a non olympic weight class). There were also alot of girls who came out such as Niki Schulthies. Rick Hawn in the end did not show up (2004 olympian at 81kg). After breakfast we were off to judo. Had two big judo practices on friday. Jason Morris' club also showed up friday night which was awesome, since they are all real cool. Went home friday night, and came in around 6:30. Similiar thing occured, tough practices. Talked with Jimmy Senior about the junior worlds next year. His response was that it doesnt hurt to try for anything, and that if I wish to do this, I have to get on my bike. Specifically with weight lifting, since if I start lifting more aggressively it will end alot of my cooridanation problems. Saturday nights practice had an interesting event. Jimmy junior was getting very angry with everyone since alot of people werent working very hard. He said that I had been the hardest worker in the camp, since I was always volunteering to take line ups, and was always doing my hardest to put out during the practice. Went home that night and stayed over Jimmy Seniors, since I had to be there real early anyways, and most of the people who were participating in the camp were staying there, it was just the easier route. Dariusz (2004 olympic alternate at 90kg) had come in friday night btw. Dave Ellis went back to new jersey so I took over his sleeping spot. Sunday there was one practice. That was a real good one. Only down fall was that I ended up seperating my shoulder after getting thrown. I am going to the doctor tommorow to have it looked at. Now on to wrestling. This week is the last week of wrestling where I will actually be competing. After this week, I have nothing but practice. This will mean I will have to just make sure to push the varsity guys. We have one last meet on wednesday, if we win, we will have gone undefeated. Finally, I will bet competing at the liberty bell tournament on april 2-3rd. This is the first big point tournament for my season, and places me down a tough road through the rest of my season. I am going to talk with some of the seniors in my club to see if I can head down with them to make life easier on my parents. overweight: 1 pound | | Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 | | 6:07 pm |
WOOOT
Well last night Jimmy gave me my brown belt, which has me in a wicked good mood no delving into philosophy and such in this post, just thought I might just mention that I have my brown belt! | | Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 | | 4:23 pm |
Wrestling
Well this week was kinda big as far as wrestling goes. The last two strong teams on our schedule we had to face. We beat both of them soundly. This puts the team at 20 and 0, and we have a very strong chance of going undefeated, we are number two right now in the state I believe. Just a note, I wrestle for North Andover Massachuesetts. My week was kind of an on and off part. Term ends next friday, so struggling to get some last minute stuff done. With wrestling going on, its very hard to get all my school stuff done. However I just need to hold on and make sure that I have atleast two Bs out of my major courses and nothing goes under a C. My body is starting to feel the strain of working out three hours a day for the last three months. I have a sprained left ankle, a strained neck, a tweaked left elbow, and than I did something to my left shoulder, but cant figure out exactly what. All I know is its giving me alot of pain and I am struggling to move it past shoulder hieght. I injured it at my only jv loss this season against a kid from triton last friday. I had strained my neck and part of the shoulder from the starret already. In my match I was fighting hard in the first period, and came in on a double leg take down, and was countered with a move called crossface. The way the kid did it, it screwed up my shoulder, and I felt an overwelming burning feeling with that entire area, and was pinned. However, yesterday I had a match against a wrestler from lawerence. With my shoulder still in alot of pain, I pinned the kid in a minute and a half. Moments like this seperate people. Theres one group that will let up and stop all together. Theres another that will let up a little to let things heal, and than get back at it. Than theres the last group, that knows that there is to much going on to let things heal just yet, and to tough it out till theres a time that would allow such activity. I am gonna be part of this last group. Theres a match I remember watching on television at the last olympics, it was a bronze medal match. I forget the name of the two fighters, but one of them bleeding badly, and was just about incapable of using one of his arms due to an injury he had suffered in his last match. The other fighter was all set, and perfect usage of the rest of his body. Your money would be overwelming put on the guy who was without all the problems. However against the odds, the fighter who had all of those injuries, threw the one who was perfectly healthy for ippon. When I think of toughness, I usually flashback to that match. Lesson being: If your in the middle something, and you feel you can finish it, dont let anything get in the way doing so. Theres a big training camp at the end of the week, which will be tough. I get through this week, and wrestling will mostly be over for me. I will still have practice, and maybe one tournament, but after this there really wont be anything left for the JVs. Up to this point I have had eleven matches. 5 varsity, six jv. I will probably have some more this week, than have some more at the jv cape ann tournament. How much over: 3 pounds | | Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 | | 7:45 pm |
Starret
Ok everybody, once again sorry for not keeping the updates regular. Here are my results on the starret Light heavyweight (they made my division this which is of course 145-) First Match: Fought with former senior national champ and friend Jeremy Ligget. Fought a hard match for the first two minutes. He scored a yuko early on, and I was given a shido (penalty) for making an attack with a throw that required me to drop to my knees, and not making the full rotation for the throw. I than attempt a throw called Ichimata and tried to follow it up with another throw called Sumi Gaeshi, however I came in from to far away, and was countered for ippon. This puts me 1 and 2 with Ligget. Second Match: I have to say, this was the weirdest match I have ever had. The kid who I walk out to fight is about half my hieght, and kept arms right against his body. On top of it the kid moved really weird. I wasnt sure if the kid was having some kind of problem walking or if he was just trying to confuse me. Either way it was hard to pin him although I had several opportunities, since he kept his arms from being hooked, so I could really hold him down with a pin. However I did finally finish him with a sweet strangle to advance to my next match. Third Match: Fought it out with a russian kid. This was probably this most disappointing match for me. First of all I couldnt finish the kid off, even though it was becoming obvious that I was alot better than he was. Second I got him in a hold down in matwork, but thinking that I would be better off, I gave up a strong hold, with a weaker one, letting him get out by accident. In the end I beat the kid by a solitary yuko. Heavyweight: First Match: Fought the same kid who took second at the last northeasterns in the under 160 (73kg) category. He beat me with a strong strangle, and overall was a very strong player in the tournament. I believe his last name was janelli, and is deffinitely someone to watch for in the upcoming tournaments. Second Match: Fought with current junior national champ at 81kg (178 pounds) Carlos Moran. Strong player, and ended up throwing me for ippon. Third Match: Both of my draws in juniors were round robin so everyone fought everyone else so they based the results off who beat who. The kid who I fought had weighed in around 200 pounds and had lost his other two matches. Well this match started off with me being scored upon for a yuko. Than I managed to pull myself together to slam the kid for a wazari. Than I attacked again with another big throw slamming him for ippon. I threw him twice with the same throw, which I plan as using as a powerful trump card in later matches, as against most opponents it only works once or twice. Seniors: I basically had no more energy by this time. Had two semi good matches, but after that there was no energy left. Basically I lost all of my matches here, all of them by ippon. Overall I was very sloppy at this tournament, and this is probably due to my lack of practice in judo lately do to wrestling. From this tournament I was able to tell some very important things. I am going to pull away money from alot of the tournament I was planning on competing in. Rather instead I am going to focus on upcoming training camps to go to. There is a list of all the big competitions and training camps coming up that I found via realjudo.net I talked with Jason Morris anyways concerning the tournaments. They are not sure what tournaments they are going to go to if any out of the junior tournaments. So I will keep that in mind, and probably plan on going to one or two tournaments this summer if possible, and than compete in quebec and ontario in the fall. | | Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 | | 8:54 pm |
Sucking weight, Wrestling, Long Car Drives, and oranges and honey
Well as you can see this is going to be a colorful entry Came in before practice 5 pounds over. What does this mean? Sucking my friends! Basically I am gonna try to watch what I eat the best I can. But it is kinda hard lol. This will be another reason that my dad will have to pick up a new scale. I will basically have to wake up around 5 on saturday to lose all the weight I need to. You lose about two pounds though from sleeping. So if I make sure I have a full 8 hours, I should have only about three pounds to suck at the weight I am going to have to deal with. For those of you who do not know what sucking weight is. First of all, as the compound word states, it sucks. But to be serious. Sucking weight is the infamous practice that many people wont allow kids to wrestle because of. It when you lose a pound or more in a very short period of time. People use different stradegies to do it. Some starve themselves for a few days, and than still throw on a few sweatshirts, a trashbag, and other such items. Some people will go into saunas with this stuff, which can be argued to be the easier or harder of the two major options. The other option is running/calistetics to lose the weight. This is where you throw the sweatshirts and the trashbags on. Now it sounds pretty bad but not really. I am among the smarter group of wrestlers that stay within range of 7% body fat or less. This year at exactly 152 I was weighing in with 7%. After practice however I am showing up around 147. So my plan is going to be to throw on a sweatshirt for practice on thursday, and than just have a few sandwiches on friday. (meets tommorow and friday so I am not gonna really lose any weight from those) Than saturday dont eat anything There may be a big conflict with wrestling this weekend. I have already had plans in advance of well more than two weeks to go to the starret. I even gave in a note saying I would be unable to attend anything this weekend. However some jvs will be used at a varsity tournament this weekend. Although I could use the matches, and the points to hit varsity, but judo is my top priority. So tommorow before anything can be drawn, I am simply making that clear. Coach is going rip my head off if stuff doesnt work out. 5 hours in the car, makes life alot easier actually to cut weight. Wont be eating, so I will show up around the time for weigh in. Btw heres a recomendation to those of you who are doing alot of working out, or are having problems with energy, and are resorting to coffee and the such. Oranges and honey are natural sugars, so they give off alot more energy than candy or other sugar type items because they take longer to break down. And give off alot of energy. overweight: 2 (had some milk so probably 3) | | Saturday, January 8th, 2005 | | 11:14 am |
Finalized ideas for presentation
After talking with one of my judo coaches I have decided on the events deffinitely what I want to do. The nationals in Ohio on july 1st and second Junior Olympics 23-24 Junior US Open August 13-14 Plane ticket for these tournaments is gonna be roughly 250 Hotel 30 bucks a night if I go with a group, since I would be splitting it. Probably plan on being at each location three nights so 90 20 bucks a day on food, so probably 60 Tournament fee is 70 So 520 is the worst case scenario cost. If I keep my grades up through out the year I have another 750 incoming. I have 850 dollars atm. So I should have just enough to pay for all these tournaments. In addition I am planning on mowing the lawn in the spring twice a week, which will get me 60 from my dad. That should get me 600 in the spring. Pick up a cheap mower which would be 200. Should make 400 off that. Considering working at my dads store in that last term. Which would give another 600. Which would place with enough money to be in good shape after the summer money wise to go to canada for the ontario and quebec opens. Along with the junior pan ams. On to some less boring stuff. Analyzed my performance from the northeasterns back in december. found the following right: Different throws were constantly being used, wasnt just stuck into one move. Was setting up my throws well. Aggressive in matwork Stuff I had wrong: Was a bit to passive in standing, wasnt making enough attacks Pushing forward to much. This ended up costing me in my first match in juniors, and in the semi finals of the mens. Wasnt paying enough attention to the score. In my first match I was ahead by a yuko but was acting as if I was behind. So we will see how I have improved next week. Overweight: 5 | | Friday, January 7th, 2005 | | 2:43 pm |
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A friend of mine just passed away on the 18th of december. I just found out via the usajudo.org site. The kids name was dave grimes, and after doing only 9 months of judo, showed enough prowess to have a shot at the 2006 world team. What was I doing on the 18th? I went to a meet that day. Thought about how retarded I was for missing practice the day before with a sore throat. Stuff like this makes me kinda think. I am sitting here writing with a bad cold. Left school early because of it. Should I have done that? I was feeling pretty miserable, but I missed practice because of it. This guy only was able to do judo for 9 months and than he died. Is it possible that I could tonight just pass away. If I died, would I have been remembered for missing that practice? I've decided that something like this teaches me something very important. I only have so much time on this earth, so I have to spend it wisely. Sitting here is not gonna help me in any way other than getting better. I have the nationals in six months, what am I doing here sitting on my ass. I have to get to work and make sure that every moment has value. Once I'm gone, I wont have another shot at any of this. If I live well now, than I wont need to live again. As that is the case I have to seriously start moving towards things. On christmas day I was enjoying my video games and my dvds, and enjoying my family. While the family of dave was getting funeral preparations ready. The kid didnt wake up to presents on christmas, he couldnt. Stuff like that isnt right, death isnt right. People complain about not having enough time in the day, including me. Well, I think that we should not be complaining, because some people dont have any time, or ever will again. Because of this I turning over a new leaf. My judo has always been my top priority and it shall remain. School though has to be number 2, and it has to have more attention paid to it. Finally, I will not be complaining anymore. Its time to get going full throttle towards my goals. If I stop, and than a few days later I die. Will people remember me for putting in hard work? How much over: dont care |
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