My wife just sent me encouragement while I'm in Congo, packing my gear bag and loading the water well equipment... She sent me this picture from my Twitter feed (@JustinTheViking) of me updating @JoeRogan on our progress.
A year ago yesterday we had completed our second water well among the Pygmies! Tomorrow our Fight For The Forgotten well drillers are tackling #20!
I'm a happy guy, super encouraged right now... And that is a good and rare thing in Eastern Congo (237 people were just hacked up by machetes in Oicha a few days ago. The massacre was only 3-5 kilometers from one of our water wells at an orphanage and hospital...) I wanted some of the great people from this community to know how THANKFUL I am to have had y'all's support through all this!
Also, so that this is "Cageside..." I'll be announcing a fight within the next month! Contract negotiations are going well and I'm narrowing down my choices to two (EXCITING) options. I will fight in 2015, 100%. I've been training with Team Takedown but I needed to get over here and into the jungle to handle some good-business before I head into my first full training camp in FIVE years. My win bonus will 100% be donated to projects loving and advancing my Pygmy family and I want the check to be made in the name of Fight For The Forgotten. With the motivation I have now... I feel I would have to be near death to lose. My heart says no one will be able to make me quit... I'm coming back to fight for a purpose and actually FIGHT for the forgotten! I don't think anyone I face will have a bigger reason to win than me. There might be guys who have more of a natural talent or be freak athletes... But they won't want the win as much as I do. I can promise that!
Anyways... THANK YOU for the continued support!
A year ago yesterday we had completed our second water well among the Pygmies! Tomorrow our Fight For The Forgotten well drillers are tackling #20!
I'm a happy guy, super encouraged right now... And that is a good and rare thing in Eastern Congo (237 people were just hacked up by machetes in Oicha a few days ago. The massacre was only 3-5 kilometers from one of our water wells at an orphanage and hospital...) I wanted some of the great people from this community to know how THANKFUL I am to have had y'all's support through all this!
Also, so that this is "Cageside..." I'll be announcing a fight within the next month! Contract negotiations are going well and I'm narrowing down my choices to two (EXCITING) options. I will fight in 2015, 100%. I've been training with Team Takedown but I needed to get over here and into the jungle to handle some good-business before I head into my first full training camp in FIVE years. My win bonus will 100% be donated to projects loving and advancing my Pygmy family and I want the check to be made in the name of Fight For The Forgotten. With the motivation I have now... I feel I would have to be near death to lose. My heart says no one will be able to make me quit... I'm coming back to fight for a purpose and actually FIGHT for the forgotten! I don't think anyone I face will have a bigger reason to win than me. There might be guys who have more of a natural talent or be freak athletes... But they won't want the win as much as I do. I can promise that!
Anyways... THANK YOU for the continued support!