Why I "Quit"

[oLi]

1) LAW SCHOOL - I had a legit shot at getting in to law school and I wanted to make the best out of it. And this was not just any law school, it was the best one in the entire country, a university that's on world top lists and also happens to be 20 minutes from where I live.
My level of freestyle required several hours a day to only maintain and the way I saw things was that seeing how I had this good chance of getting in to law school I should do everything I can do actually make it happen so for obvious reasons things that took up a lot of time had to be neglected for this period of time (10 weeks).

2) LACK OF RESPECT - I felt like I didn't get the respect that I deserved from the freestyle community both in terms of my actual skill as well as knowledge and other abilities. I could never understand why freestylers that had zero versatility were in these compilations over and over or why garbage freestylers were getting well paid over seas gigs or jobs judging competitions and so on.

3) STAYING TRUE - I stay true to myself and that means I don't do anything I don't want to do. Freestyling for several hours a day enduring sometimes terrible pain and neglegting many social situations was something I was starting to get tired of.

4) BODY BUILDING - Since some time back I have been interested in body building and I have always been trying to transform my own body into what I believe is a masterpiece. All though I am still not there yet this is what I'm trying to do right now and it's not compatible with freestyle.

5) BOREDOM - Lowers got boring. It used to be such a passion filled thing to me but just as written in 2) I felt like I didn't get the respect I deserved. So what if some dude could do 5 alatws or another dude can do 15 amatws, he wasn't touching me in any other aspect than that one and I would destroy him in uppers, sits as well as performing and people didn't recognize it at all. So the only thing that mattered was amount of amatws nt one can do? No thanks to that.

And another thing - I have a hard time doing things without committing fully. If I do things I want to do them well.

So those are the main reasons in no particular order except for 1) being the greatest one. My day during that period would be wake up around 05:00-07:00 and study for 4-6 hours. After that I would have my first meal and study for another 4-6 hours. Eat. Bed. Repeat. Some days I would hit the gym as well. I distanced myself from everything negative and watched many motivational videos/listened to speeches and things like that.

And in terms of today - I am actually enjoying freestyle again. I had some shows so I had to re-learn some stuff which wasn't that hard. In terms of doing LP's I'm just as good as I was when I stopped putting in all those hours every day. I was at the Amsterdam meet and had a ton of fun and I will be at Prague as well.

I got in to law school.

I am now pursuing my body building goals.

Thank you for reading and if you have any questions I will gladly answer them.

[Patrick Edwards]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

[tbc]

do you have any regrets?
why did you do heavy promotions of your website and forum and of yourself (answering questions on youtube) before announcing you lost passion?
what did you learn about yourself from this experience?
rate your lower experience in terms of achievement of goals on a scale of 10?

[Tupac]

Would you do it all over again?

[oLi]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

It depends on how much time I have and how easily I improve but I will never go back that what I once did

do you have any regrets?
why did you do heavy promotions of your website and forum and of yourself (answering questions on youtube) before announcing you lost passion?
what did you learn about yourself from this experience?
rate your lower experience in terms of achievement of goals on a scale of 10?

Basically just one regret I think and that's being too big of a dick head on the forums in my younger days but it was all due to immaturity and I'm sure those I offended who have grown up as well also realize it and forgive me

Why wouldn't I? I just wanted what's best for freestyle and I believe that was it bur more importantly I want what's best for me so that's why I quit

What experience?

As in my life in general? Not very high because there's barely anyone who understand the difficulty of it. As far as how I rate it personally I would say it could be the most difficult thing I have ever done/achieved

Would you do it all over again?

Yeah. Freestyle is the best thing to ever happen to me.

[tbc]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

What experience?

the continous hardwork you put into lowers everyday ( 2 hours per day, was it?) and the years.

[oLi]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

What experience?

the continous hardwork you put into lowers everyday ( 2 hours per day, was it?) and the years.

2 hours a day would be minimum only to maintain. I never maintained, I always improved. I averaged more than two hours a day.

What I learned from it is a lot of things. Some confirmation on theories like the more time you put into something the better you get which is true in general but not always. I also learned staying true to myself which is something not many people know how to do. People lie to others or do things they don't want to do because they can't stay true to themselves and thanks to freestyle I perfected that ability. I realised how much positive thinking can do as well as visualization.

You need to make your question a lot more specific because as of right now it's basically "what did you learn through freestyle" and I could answer that with a hundred page novel if I wanted to.

[tbc]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

What experience?

the continous hardwork you put into lowers everyday ( 2 hours per day, was it?) and the years.

2 hours a day would be minimum only to maintain. I never maintained, I always improved. I averaged more than two hours a day.

What I learned from it is a lot of things. Some confirmation on theories like the more time you put into something the better you get which is true in general but not always. I also learned staying true to myself which is something not many people know how to do. People lie to others or do things they don't want to do because they can't stay true to themselves and thanks to freestyle I perfected that ability. I realised how much positive thinking can do as well as visualization.

You need to make your question a lot more specific because as of right now it's basically "what did you learn through freestyle" and I could answer that with a hundred page novel if I wanted to.

thanks oli. i have my answer. the thing you said about staying true to ourselves is huge. props mate

[oLi]

Do you think your regained interest in freestyle could turn into something more?

What experience?

the continous hardwork you put into lowers everyday ( 2 hours per day, was it?) and the years.

2 hours a day would be minimum only to maintain. I never maintained, I always improved. I averaged more than two hours a day.

What I learned from it is a lot of things. Some confirmation on theories like the more time you put into something the better you get which is true in general but not always. I also learned staying true to myself which is something not many people know how to do. People lie to others or do things they don't want to do because they can't stay true to themselves and thanks to freestyle I perfected that ability. I realised how much positive thinking can do as well as visualization.

You need to make your question a lot more specific because as of right now it's basically "what did you learn through freestyle" and I could answer that with a hundred page novel if I wanted to.

thanks oli. i have my answer. the thing you said about staying true to ourselves is huge. props mate

Cool I'm glad it helped. Find out what you really want to do, apply it and success is guaranteed.

[samfs]

Doesn't bodybuilding require just as much time as freestyling for you? 2-3 hours in the gym seems about right, doesn't it? So how come you decided to pursue that instead of freestyle?

[SG]

Doesn't bodybuilding require just as much time as freestyling for you? 2-3 hours in the gym seems about right, doesn't it? So how come you decided to pursue that instead of freestyle?

/facepalm

[G-Kid]

Intresting read dawg

1-How did you know it was you're time to leave the game and not just you hitting a motivational slump or a wall which you just had to push through?
2- What was you're main motivation and inspiration that made you wanna get up early in the morning, put the hours in and training you're ass off?
3- Do you think it's possible for somebody to train how you did for numerous years and not lose the passion and fire?
4- Plans for the future?