Ampnation Magazine

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MAGAZINE

OCTOBER 2019

RONALD

MANN

YAMASAKI PARA JIU JITSU WORLD CHAMPION

Amputee, U.S. Military Veteran and Jiu Jitsu ChampionHas Passed Away

BETTER OUTCOMES

Eric Davis - Right Place @ Right Time

SMOKING AND LIMBLOSS

What FDA Fails To Warn You About

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BETTER OUTCOMES freeway. The problem I had now was my legs were sticking out on the freeway I tried to pull myself under my truck but I was not very successful my legs were still sticking out. It was dark and my fear was someone would not see me and run over my legs.

And then a truck stopped it was a Hispanic gentleman and he was a construction worker, he was trying to ask me what did I need, "do you need help" but I couldn't speak at all! So we had a real problem I knew I had freaked him out because he did not do anything and just a ran off back his truck. Leaving me there, as I begin to blackout with my head on the asphalt my body and my legs were still sticking out onto the freeway. I saw the wheels of a car drive up, they were Mercedes Benz rims.

The person who got out of this car approached me on the ground and said to me, I know what's wrong with you and I'm going to help you until the Ambulance gets here. He was a cardiologist, he began to help me a few minutes later a CHP patrolman on a motorcycle drives up he does not know that the gentleman is a cardiologist. The first man identifies himself as a cardiologist and asks the CHP could you please call 911 the CHP responds 911 is already here I've been an EMT for 26 years.

So, I had a cardiologist and in EMT helping me as I lay in the side of the freeway. I have two things to say, God is real and God is good.

Eric Davis Right Place @ Right Time

In 2017, I was dealing with a really bad foot infection, they treated it with antibiotics and my foot got better but this would go on for the next two years. Back and forth to wound care for this foot that was not healing. Finally, my doctor said it has come time to amputate the foot as it is not healing. I fought him on this as I didn't want to lose my foot. That night I took a look at my foot one more time and thought to myself I will never have it again and this made me upset. I was angry at my surgeon, I was angry at the world, I was angry at my family and I was angry at God.

After the surgery, I was sent to Encompass Rehabilitation Hospital in Modesto, CA. my doctor explained that this is a place that is going to work with and not allow you to lie in bed and how this would be good for me in my recovery.

This is all good but I was still trying to figure out the small things like what was I going to do with my life? I sat there in my bed just looking out the window, I was ready to give up on life and give up on everything. This all accord just recently this year 2019.

Little did I know that God would send a gentleman into my room that would change my life again forever, Mr. Sean came into my room and into my life to tell me that I shouldn't give up he's a tall handsome strong strapping looking dude, who looked as though he never experienced any problems in his life. I'm looking at him and I'm saying you don't know what

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What the FDA Does Not Tell You

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The numbers say more than a million people in the world could be living with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and that 9 out of 10 people with the condition are known to be smokers or ex-smokers. But few have ever been told that smoking also increases the risk of vascular disease in their legs and ultimately, if left untreated, the loss of a leg. These are hardcore facts that medical professionals can't or won't tell you because of fear, well now you know. So, what are you going to do about it? Stop smoking and save a limb.

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RONALD MANN

The motivation behind Mann's endeavor for Para Jiu-Jitsu, "I will always fight able bodied opponents because my goal is to explore jiu-jitsu as it pertains to every situation, physical or mental. Fighting able bodied opponents raises difficulties for me to overcome. I have limited mobility and range across the mat. It makes me establish a game plan that works for me and break down my opponents. There is no one jiu-jitsu body type. We all fight strengths and weaknesses. With jiu-jitsu we can overcome that. For the sake of competition, there needs to be categories of similar abilities. To truly feel accepted as equal we need to be able to compete against our equals. Just as there are divisions for men, women, and children, UAEJJF is allowing us to compete against our peers. Not everyone wants to compete in an open class. I am fortunate to have the ability and desire to do so. I know that anyone on the United States Para Jiu-Jitsu team would. But for the future, for those who cannot or do not want to, we should be allowed to compete against the same ability level."

This has not been an easy road Ron, he had to put in a lot of work into this personally, as most amputees know things are harder for those of us missing limbs. We use more energy and must finds ways to adapt. As Ron said, "It is a labor of love; there are always trials and growing pains."

Ron has won a gold medal at the World Para Jiu-Jitsu Festival in Abu Dhabi. Through will and courage, he has defied the stigma attached to physical handicap people by

competing and winning in his sport.

After I won UAEJJF Worlds this spring in Abu Dhabi, I was asked by the head of the para division, Elcirley Silva and Rodrigo Valeria to collect a Para team for the United States.

He returned home to America at the end of April and began work right away. He started reaching out to other adaptive fighters that he knew, combing through social media and searching for people with disabilities who train grappling. He was on my podcast talking about this, how we met. The response was surprisingly strong. He able to identified roughly 30 fighters and were able to bring 10 to Los Angeles for the first American Grand Slam to support Para categories. He was able to find 25 athletes from four countries; Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, and the United States to represent the North American continent and were collecting fighters until two weeks before the tournament. There was so much interest that he had already established a list of fighters for next years event.

Ron was a Jiu-Jitsu Master, teaching martial arts to young people. Mann founded The United States Para Jiu-Jitsu Association, which built the para jiu-jitsu team for the inaugural UAEJJF Grand Slam at The Los Angeles Convention Center September 2017. Ron's life touched so many along the way, I have seen pictures of him with family overseas where he has left a big impact in the world teaching and touching so many lives that he came across. Know as “The Peaceful Warrior”.

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