The Snowman
If you have been to my myspace page you have probably seen this guy's bald head in one of my videos. He is Jeff Monson one of my favorite grapplers/fighters. He will be fighting against Tim Silvia for the Heavyweight title November 18th. I'm hoping he will exploit Sylvia's inadequecies on the ground. Sylvia is a good striker but doesn't like to go to the ground and usually doesn't since he is 6'9 but if anyone can take him to the ground it is Monson. Monson is a powerhouse built for grappling @ 5'9 and 240lbs he is one tough guy to handle. Compact, powerful guys like this are good for grappling because it's harder to get leverage on guys that are strong and don't have long limbs. I like him because he's of similar height to myself and roughly the same build as myself, although he is in Much better shape, so I like to watch how he grapples and try to learn from what he does.
Jeff is also educated. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he wrestled, and then received his Masters in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. During his graduate work, Monson had his political awakening—a course entitled Community Psychology.
“Oh man, that class really opened my eyes,” he says. “Just looking at the way the world is run, the way that the people that might be disabled or have mental issues are left behind. How education and general welfare are not a priority, and how the elite run everything for their own benefit. Then I started reading a bunch of stuff—Animal Farm, the International Socialist Review, Chomsky—and I started thinking in a different way.”
posted by sumobeats @ 6:27 AM
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