About

I wrestled Division I at Princeton. Four years of daily practice, cutting weight, and competing against the best wrestlers in the country.

Now I write code from 9 to 5.

I still train — jiu jitsu is my competitive outlet and I compete when I can. But, somewhere between college wrestling and a decade of desk work, I started losing things. Range of motion. Explosiveness. The ease of movement every athlete takes for granted until it's gone.

So I'm taking it back.

What I write about

Mindset — mental models from wrestling, systems thinking, and doing hard things when life is already full.

Fitness — what I'm doing to move better right now, including my Movement Mastery Year — twelve months chasing the front split, freestanding handstand, dragon squat, windmill, and air flare.

Nutrition — what I provide to my body, why, and what I'm learning along the way.

Grappling — personal stories from the mat. Competition reflections, injury lessons, and what training looks like with a job and a family. For wrestling technique and instructional content, head to gettakedowns.com.

Who I am beyond the bio

I'm a husband and father of two. Every training session is squeezed around nap schedules, every meal prep happens with a toddler underfoot.

I'm a software engineer and a maker. I made gettakedowns.com to help jiu jitsu athletes learn wrestling. I build apps and tools that scratch my own itch.

I write the way I talk — direct, honest, no filler. If something isn't working, I'll say so. If I fail at a goal publicly, you'll know about it.