Hello Steemers !
With this post I´m going tell you my story and how it brought me to Steemit.com
If I tell people my story it sometimes even does sound unreal to me but I´ll prove everything im writing here by facts and I promise that every word I´m writing is the truth, even when it sounds crazy to some people.
So my story starts on August 22th 1992 the day I was born. I grew up in a small town called Luebeck in Germany. When I was 9 my parents got divorced and moved with my dad to a bigger city called Hamburg.
In Hamburg I grew up in one of the toughest parts of the city and so I always had to fight my way through. First I played Soccer like every kid here in Europe. Everybody told me that I´m crazy fast and strong but I couldn´t shot the ball so I kinda figured out that soccer wasnt for me lol. After that I started playing basketball to which my cousin introduced me. I was really good and even had a the chance to move to the USA and to play for a Highschool in Columbus, Ohio. But at this time I was still young and my teachers convinced me that it is smarter to finish my school here in Germany first because it´ll have more valuable to me and that I never know how a sports career will turn out.
- Just one injury and everything your worked for so hard will be gone in an instance -
So I listened again to other people and took the path they wanted me to go. At this point I was 17 years old and because I stopped playing basketball after my teachers told me to stay here I kinda had to find a new sport at which I´m good at. I thought about it really hard and then it hit me out of nothing. I had a flashback from when I was a kid and saw myself how I always trained and wanted to be the strongest. My Idols have always been Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Rocky Balboa since I was a kid and so I started to dedicated my life to fighting. I´m not coming from a rich family so I always went from gym to gym until they told me to become a member and then I was off to the next one. At this time I worked a lot to support my family, finish my school in the best possible way and also to work my ass of to become a boxer. I promised myself that this time I´ll make it and that nobody is going to take my dream.
When I finished my school and people especially my dad expected me to go to university I told myself "No! this time I´m not giving up my dream and I´ll make it as big as I can"
I thought a lot about it and how I can achieve the next Level and so I made up my mind, packed my stuff and moved to the USA and found a new home in Boston. At the beginning I was working for a family and they gave me a room and food for my work but that wasnt the life I was aiming for. I came here by myself and all alone to fight and to become the best version of myself. So I made up a few rules and task for myself .
- My main goal is to fight and I take whatever fight I get
- There´s no excuse for not training
- Because knowledge is power and I don´t know if I´m going to lose some through boxing I´m going to read one book every week
- I made this decision to achieve my goals or I rather die before I fail (sounds hard but I really told myself that)
- Im open minded and learn from and listen to people without having prejudices
I searched the internet then for gym´s and found a MMA gym called Boston Combat Sports at North Station then. They didn´t had boxing there but I got into MMA, Thaiboxing and BJJ. My Trainer was impressed by me and so after 3 Months he arranged my first Pro MMA fight
Before the fight me and a Teammate who was also fighting made a bet. The one who knocks his opponent out faster owns the other one 50$. Unluckily I lost to him but I still knocked my Opponent out in the first round lol.
But before I was allowed to fight I had to go through physical examination and thats where the doctor introduce me to my boxing coach which became a father figure to me.
From Day one my boxing coach believed in me and he made sure that I don´t have to live and work for that family anymore and he let me move into his house were he, his wife, his 5 children and the grandparents lived. It was a crazy household but I´ve never felt so good and welcomed in my life. My trainer and his wife made sure that I had everything and could focus on fighting a 110%.
After a few months training my trainer set me up for the New England Golden Gloves where I had to fight every Saturday for 1 Month straight. For my fights I even was invited to the Mayweather Boxing Gym and to train there. I made sure to train as much as I could there and to kick some ass in the tournament what I also did.
I won every fight and knocked out 3 of my 4 opponents and became the New England Golden Gloves Champion of 2014.
I even achieved more than I expected while being in the USA and I made my dream come true and I´ve been on the best way to become a Pro Boxer and make myself a name. What have I achieved :
- I won all my fights doesnt matter if it was boxing, MMA, BJJ or Thaiboxing
- I won the New England Golden Gloves
- I trained in the Mayweather Gym
- The doors to become a Pro fighter have never been that open to me
- My family got bigger and I met people which became really important to me
- I developed a mindset of a winner and in my head there was nothing I couldnt achieve
My Visa then went out and I had to go back to Germany. When I was back here I signed a deal with a guy which has been a mistake. He managed me but in a way I started to hate boxing. So for a while I stopped boxing but for the better I got introduced to Bitcoins at this Point. A friend @sirwinchester told me about Bitcoins and the potential it has and so I got more and more into it and even started a company with another guy were investor could invest there money and we would trade for them. But when the Bitcoin went down a little, the investors had cold feet and I had the sell the company. So since I came back to Germany everything kind of wasn´t going the right way and so I decided to go back to the USA, move back to my trainer and to continue my dream where I stopped.
But like people know that there´s nothing in life that we can plan, the worst thing happened to me
I worked as a bouncer at night to make more money so that I can also pay for school when I go back to the USA. But life didn´t wanted me to and out of nothing that night I got into a fight with 5 guys and one pulled a gun out and shoot me in my leg. The bullet went right through my ankle and I was done for good. It all happened in less than 30 seconds. In less than 30 seconds I lost everything I worked for and I knew that my life will never be the same again.
(I didnt wanted to upload the graphic pictures of the holes in my leg)
I was in hospital for 1 month straight just laying on my back and not able to get up. If I think about everything that ever happened to me than this definitely was the worst that ever happened to me. How was it even possible that I got shoot ? Especially in a country like Germany ? I´ve been to russia, poland, africa, colombia, mexico, the USA and no where I even got a scratch from. So in less than 30 seconds I lost everything and I felt like a mess.
But this now is the point where I wanna tell u my message. Why I´m even introducing myself and told you about all this.
My Doctor told me that I´ll never properly walk again in my life and that I´ll have a limp no matter what. I told myself NO! and that I´ll never accept that. So instead of going once a week to rehab I went 5 times straight for 6 months there. I had to learn everything from scratch again but I was willing to do that. I accepted my leg as a new leg and saw my whole situation as a gift and a new chance to start all over.
I always had the doctors words in my head that I will not walk again. So I told myself :
"Fuck it I´ll prove him wrong. You´re not only going to walk again, you´re going to run again !"
I proved all the odds wrong and became an even stronger person through all this
- Everybody will suffer pain but its our decision to make if we wanna keep on suffering or fight our way back -
During the time in rehab I could´nt train myself that much or the way I wanted to and so I started to help other people with my knowledge and to bring them closer to their dreams. Thats how I got into personal training and since that day I can say that I never ever worked a day in my life.
- Heartwork + Hardwork = Unbeatable -
A friend of mine is using steemit.com since the early days and he told me to try it out and to tell people about my story and to inspire them and that is what I´m here for now. I want to inspire you guys and show you that theres nothing you can´t achieve If you put your mind into it. I wanna motivate you, inspire you, educate you about fitness and give you the tools to turn yourself into your best version. Thats what I´m here for and thats why I´m giving Steemit.com a try.
Much love and text me if you got any questions
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Your Coach Nas