Dead Legs Darrell - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Ok... About me... I'm a husband and father of one, that is one wife and one son. I have been married to my beautiful wife for going on 13 years and we have been together for going on 17 years. I hate to say it but she has totally ruined me to the rest of the world. I am completely spoiled rotten and useless without her. She completes me --- Insert Cheesy Jerry Maguire quote here. LOL She doesn't realize it but she really does. I get mad at her sometimes because she is so hard on herself about everything but she is really smart. She joined the Marine Corps Reserves at age 19 and met my lazy butt right after her MOS training. She had our son at the age of 21 and has been homeschooling him as long as he has been in school.
My son is 16 years old and while every day he makes me feel older just by standing up, he also makes me feel like I have done something to contribute something positive to the world. If I spent every day of the rest of my life trying to be the person he is, I would still never be half the man that he is at 15. Don't get me wrong, my wife has ruined him too, he's just as lazy and spoiled as me, but he can and does do whatever he sets his mind to. He's polite, smart, plays guitar, received his Jr. Black Belt at the age of 12 and now teaches several days per week at the karate studio. HE OUTRANKS ME!!!
OK... Sorry about that... Proud Father Going Off On A Tangent... This thing is supposed to be about me...
I love martial arts. I can remember watching Kung Fu Action Theater every Saturday afternoon for most of my teen age years. I always wanted to take some kind of martial arts classes for a lot of different reasons. I was a tall skinny kid growing up and even into my twenties so I wasn't exactly able to defend myself well so naturally I wanted to be able to defend myself, but my Mom thought of it more as a violent thing than a dicipline, I guess my Dad wasn't really into paying for anything else to keep me busy so he never stood up and said anything about it. Anyway, I never got a chance to take any classes anywhere when I was growing up and then when I was a teenager I ended up getting distracted by typical teenage things things like girls and partying so ended up spending the money I made at my first jobs on those things rather than getting involved in any classes. I never did think about it much anymore until I spent a couple of months watching my son take classes. One of the instructors kept saying to me... When are we gonna get you in here?. Eventually I stopped making excuses and decided to start taking classes. As soon as I started taking classes, I became a man obsessed with martial arts. I was taking classes 6 days a week. More Later...
I'm a real estate appraiser. I got my trainee license a few years back and now I am a fully licensed appraiser. You have to do 90 hours of class time to get a trainee license and then 2000 hours of on the job training basically almost for free. As a trainee you earn while you earn while you learn, but you are basically on commission and the commission isn't usually a very good one during that time frame. The only way I could ever make it as far as I have is by working almost around the clock for the last couple of years. I've had to sacrifice a lot of my family time and I have barely been able to practice martial arts at all.
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My Interests

My Family, My Wife & My Son my son are very interesting.

I am a huge Martial Arts fanatic.

Brazilian Jiujitsu, Jiu-Jitsu, Jiu Jitsu, Jujitsu, Submission Grappling (Whatever ya wanna call it, it's mostly the same thing with different rules). I train with Team Lloyd Irvin. I say that I train there but I haven't been able to very much because of my work schedule. I've had my white belt for around 5 years. Ya don't just get belts in BJJ. Every belt level in BJJ is seriously the result of the countless hours of blood, sweat, tears, bumps and bruises.

TEAM LLOYD IRVIN VIDEO CLIPS

BRANDON "THE TRUTH" VERA!!!

DEREK HERRERA!!!

Jeet Kune Do (Philosophy or Fighting Style) -- huge contraversy there, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Tang Soo Do.

Real Estate Investing and Appraising.

Computers: (I'm a 6'3 Technogeek), Building, working with and gaming on them. I love flight sims and first person shooters.

Photography: "All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation." Ansel Adams.

I'd like to meet:

Just some cool people who are interesting and intelligent.

AIM and Yahoo Messenger Screenname Is: Tiptonites

Music:

I like a lot of different music but for the most part... I'm a headbanger!!! Stuff you'll find in my CD collection: Metallica, Megadeth, Slipknot, Korn, Audioslave, Tool, Disturbed, Staind, White Zombie, Godsmack, System of a Down, Drowning Pool, Nine Inch Nails, Papa Roach, POD, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Linkin Park, 311,3 Doors Down, Evanescence, Seether, Queensryche, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Iron Maiden.

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Flyleaf - I'm So Sick

Flyleaf - Cassie (Acoustic)

Books:

ADVICE, LIKE YOUTH, PROBABLY JUST WASTED ON THE YOUNG
by Mary Schmich
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.

Heroes:

My Son Brandon: When I grow up I want to be just like him. He does anything he sets his mind to 110% and he makes it all look so easy. One of these days I'll figure out how in the world I had anything to do with helping create something so much better than me.

My Wife Tammy :) The reason I am who I am today is due to her. She is the glue that keeps it all together. I truely love her more than words.

Lloyd Irvin, Brandon Vera, Danny Ives, Jose Villirisco, Ryan Hall, Seph Smith, Mike Easton

Chuck Liddell: For bein a true warrior who is never afraid to put it on the line.

Royce Gracie: Proved to the world (and me) that a tall skinny kid can really put the hurt on someone much larger than himself if necessary and still be one of the nicest people I have ever met.

My Blog

My Son Brandon in the Bowie Star

The Gazette | 9030 Comprint Court | Gaithersburg, MD 20877Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008Mastering the ArtMartial arts training playing role in the success of three Bowie High wrestlersby Adam Rubenstein | St...
Posted by Dead Legs Darrell on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

My Son Brandon on the front page of the Washington Post Sports Section

A New Grip on TalentPopularity of Mixed Martial Arts Is Benefiting Wrestling, as WellBy Ryan MinkSpecial to The Washington PostFriday, March 7, 2008; E01Midway through this wrestling season, Bowie Hig...
Posted by Dead Legs Darrell on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:32:00 PST

Friends... Family... Life...

It is amazing how you get to know people, whether they be friends or family or even just acquaintances. You spend you spend time with them, get to know them, they become part of you. ...
Posted by Dead Legs Darrell on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:26:00 PST

Training

I went to classes tonight, I didn't train but I took Brandon to his Muay Thai class. He loves them... it is so good to see him enjoying his classes again. I would have taken class myself&n...
Posted by Dead Legs Darrell on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:19:00 PST