Damon Martin Gets it! Embrace the grind. Its a phrase virtually every wrestler has heard in his or her life, and the meaning goes so much further than just those three words. In a physical sense, wrestlers grind in the gym and on the mats. They learn to love the suffering of an intense, grueling match. But in a different sense, embracing the grind as a wrestler also means learning do a lot while having very little. While many sports are flush with funding from sponsors like Nike, Gatorade and other brand-name products, wrestling has always struggled to keep its head above water. So when John Du Pont, a multimillionaire philanthropist and heir to a chemical company fortune, came along and offered to fund the U.S. national wrestling team in the late 1980s, it was like a gift from heaven. Until Du Ponts madness dissolved it all into hell. foxsports/ufc/story/mark-schultz-ufc-win-was-a-cathartic-step-after-foxcatcher-tragedy-111214?cmpid=tsmtw%3Afscom%3Aufconfox
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:20:03 +0000
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