I was a kid growing up in north Philly when I heard DA news, "We got the Doc! the Doctor is coming! Dr J is gonna be a Sixers!!!" That's the day, the year that probably most influenced my whole life, for the better and for the worst... That's when basketball became bigger than baseball to me. That's when I told my mom I was groing my fro from now on, that's when I decided to be cool, as cool as the Doc. Actually I probably became a little too cool, started hanging out with the wrong people to try and impress the wrong kinda girls... Even though I was still playing high school basketball, I started doing more partying than practicing. What had to happen happened I got kicked out of high school at 16 then and decided to go wild and funk my life to the fullest... Fortunately I also had good influences around me to help tame some of the bad funk inside and after a couple of years of Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication I came back down, closer to what people identify as the real world. I said closer, not quite IN it yet...

So I come from the '70's, Dr J, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Garry Templeton, Fat Albert, Bake McBride, Walter Payton, George Clinton & P-Funk, to Dennis Rodman n the Detroit Bad Boys, Wu-Tang Clan...
All influenced and inspired who I was and who I've become, still in great shape at 41 thanks to balancing all the partying with sports and martial arts.