How the Fire Started
Look, I'm not gonna feed you some perfect origin story. Back in 2018, I was burnt out from the corporate grind, 40 pounds overweight, and honestly pretty lost. Found myself watching those old martial arts films at 2am - you know the ones where the master trains the student on some mountaintop - and something clicked.
Started training in my garage with whatever I could find. Kettlebells, sandbags, battle ropes. Built these brutal circuits that left me gasping but weirdly... alive again. Friends started asking what I was doing differently, so I invited 'em over. Three people turned into ten, ten into twenty.
The dragon warrior theme? That came from my daughter actually. She was six, obsessed with dragons, and she'd watch me train and say "Daddy looks like he's fighting dragons." That stuck with me - because that's exactly what we're doing here. Fighting our own dragons, our doubts, our limits.
Fast forward to now - we've got a real space, a team of trainers who get it, and hundreds of members who've discovered their inner fire. Still feels surreal sometimes.