Ethan Coghill, future MMA star…

We see a number of new guys appearing at Sandbox MMA all the time…

Lots of hopes, dreams, and hours spent watching UFC and other MMA events provides the impetus for fellas to come our way…And some come, some go, but all of them leave with the appreciation of how hard it is to train in this sport and put in the requisite time to become successful…

Well, one of our younger guys is a Heritage Hills High School football player named Ethan Coghill…I’ve got nothing but good things to say about this fella…

He shows up regularly for MMA class, he puts in the mat time, keeps his mouth shut (for the most part…haha) and asks a million questions about what he should be doing differently or a particular move that he saw on an event…I’m sure that if the didn’t have school to deal with, he’d be in the gym at noon doing our strength & conditioning classes too…

But more importantly than that, he realizes that this sport will take years of work…So many people that probably have the potential to become very good athletes in MMA simply aren’t willing to believe that they will be logging years of time training to get there…

He realizes that this sport is going to take years of development and I’m betting he’s going to be around, sweating and bleeding with the rest of us rock-headed gym rats…

And I really think that the future of MMA will be guys like Ethan, that start training early with the realization that they are going to have to be in it for the long haul if they really want to succeed…

Now he can quit bugging me to update my blog…hahaha….

And here he is, getting business done…