All Sport Academy - How Good Do You Want To Be Today?

No, I’m not flipping over and rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series, but you’ve got to admit their bats are hot right now and it’s a lot of fun to watch. How long will it last is the big question, but I don’t see any of them cooling off anytime soon. Lots of talk about the Rockies having eight days off and it messing with their timing, but I’m not buying that. These guys are professionals, they’ve been working out, they’ve been scrimmaging, they’ve been playing this game since they were five, they just got beat up on tonight, nothing more, nothing less. Beckett was amazing and quite frankly I thought they should have pulled him at about 70 pitches when the game was already out of hand. But, that’s why I’m not coaching in the bigs, what the heck do I know. Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t want to be pitching to the Sox right now, although my blazing 70 mph fastball might be what’s needed to mess up their timing…

Got the official word today that ex-UFC fighter, ex-coach of the Anacondas of the IFL and current coach to many high level MMA fighters, Shawn Tompkins, will be at All Sport Academy for a four-hour mixed martial arts seminar/training session on Saturday, November 17th. The seminar will start at 9:00am and run until 1:00pm. Cost of the seminar will be $79 in advance on the the ASA website or $99 at the door. What Tompkins will teach during the seminar is still be worked out.

This event will tie into the UFC matches being held Saturday night at the new Prudential Center in Newark, where at least one of Tompkin’s fighters will be involved. It’s possible that a second fighter might be called to step in for an injured fighter on the card, but it’s not known at this time. It’s doubtful that his fighter will be at the seminar considering he’s getting ready for a fight, but it’s possible that they will be at ASA earlier in the week to work out.

Nearly every time I watch a sporting event I get asked by someone in my family, “Who do you want to win?” Nearly every time, unless one of my favorite teams are playing, I give the same answer, “I don’t really care, I just want to watch a good game…” They roll their eyes at me and mutter how dumb it is that I don’t care who wins. Well, this time I had a preference, I wanted to see a Denver-Cleveland World Series. I’m thrilled about Denver’s run through the end of the regular series and the playoffs and was very happy to see Cleveland get up 3-1 on Boston, thinking that they were sending the Sox packing early. I guess someone forgot to tell Boston the plan and the Indians must have packed up all their ’stuff’ and sent it on to Denver early.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Red Sox hater, not by any stretch, but I wanted to see two underdogs fighting for the rings. I’m not a fan of the Rockies, nor a fan of the Red Sox, but I’m a baseball fan, I love watching baseball and I’m not ready for it to be over. This time of year is especially difficult for me as we wrap up high school fall ball, major league baseball ends and it gets cold, all three things I’m not fond of. This season I got to coach two teams through ASA and they are a great group of guys, but we only have a week or two left in the season. I think last year both ended on the same day, we finished our fall ball season the same day as the World Series wrapped up, so I was hit doubly hard, not a fun time. I cherish my baseball package on the satellite service, I can watch games for hours every day since there are games starting early and ending late every day and then I can watch the Yankee or Mets rebroadcast after all the West Coast games are over! Unfortunately I don’t have the package at ASA, so I didn’t get to watch as much, but there’s always MLB.com… Yes, this time of year is great for baseball junkies like me, the ultimate series, but then that void is nearly paralyzing the day after it’s over. Maybe this amazing weather we’ve been having will last another month or longer so we can keep the high school guys on the field, or should we all collectively think thoughts of moving this weather to Denver, I’m not interested in seeing Papelbon and Beckett doing the River Dance in a snow bank…

Hi all,

It’s funny, I’ve been deeply entrenched in the Internet for many years now and I’m just getting around to starting a blog. I’ve thought about it for years since I used to write sports for a small local newspaper and then owned paper for a while and at both I had a weekly column. The great thing about a blog, like a column, is that it’s typically random thoughts or thoughts on one particular topic, but you’re not held to the same journalistic standards as you are in an article. The guy that taught me the most at that first paper used to tell me to put things in my column that don’t show up in a box score, things like comments heard on the sidelines, things seen that had nothing to do with the score, etc. I’ve missed that outlet for a long time, I guess a blog is just the thing I’ve been looking for…

So, what’s the point? Well, I think there are many, but there’s no way to get the feel of a facility through pictures or schedules, you can’t get an idea of the overall personality of a business unless you know the people running that business, which, in the case of All Sport Academy, is me. So, as I drop various thoughts and tidbits onto the ASA Blog, I hope that you’ll see that we aren’t just a place for you to spend a few bucks on a hitting lesson or to show up every Wednesday night with your softball team, work out and leave. We hope that you’ll see ASA as a lot more than that and that the athletes that train here don’t just consider us another gym.

Anyway, welcome to the new ASA Blog, I intend on using it for news, notices, ramblings, comments on sports in general and various things that probably won’t matter much to anyone other than me. Thanks for stopping by, I hope to see you at ASA soon.

Monty Forthun
All Sport Academy