I just wanted to give you all a heads up on my upcoming competititon schedule. I thought I was going to have a little break, but apparently not. The last 3 weeks have certainly ...
Greetings from the brand new Bangkok airport. Its 3 AM and I'm trying to stay awake until my flight leaves at 6 AM. Might as well start acclimating early. Although its killing me. I'll post more ...
Well, Its been a few days and things have settled down. I am now taking a little vacation for a few days on a beach in Thailand to get some R & R before I get back to work ...
Well, I weigh in today and in a few minutes i'm giong to head over to the venue, Tianhe Sports Center and watch a little freestyle wrestling before I sit in the sauna and lose my 2 kilos. It ...
I went to Opening Ceremonies last night and it was awesome. It was perfect, I got there 30 minutes late so I missed all the welcoming speeches that are impossible to understand anyways and got to see the show. ...
So many people and very few of them speak English. Luckily, we have a translator assigned to our team, Sino (pronounced Sheeno), and she has been amazing at getting things done. All the translators are ...
What a place....I just arrived into Guangzhou, a Cantonese speaking province early yesterday and there are so many people! You should see the view from the 49th floor of my hotel room, skyscrapers everywhere (as far as the smog ...
Sorry that I haven't updated my blog in the last couple weeks. Although to be honest, I've just been training hard and thats about it. The World Championships are coming up in 22 days, so I am going ...
I have posted some more pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/mattgentry/ . I added a lot of photos from Mongolia and also my Poland/Romania trip, although I didn't take too many this time around. Best, Matt
Not much happened after the tournament. We had a 3 hour busride right after the tournament to get back to sweltering, humid, miserable Bucharest. EXCEPT that our hotel next to the airport had a water park. Ah, ...
First off, I wanted to apologize that I haven't had a chance to update, but the server was down for my website for reasons beyond my computer technologicabilityness. You know what I mean.
How cool is that, I'm in transylvania, Romania. I'm about 45 minutes from Count Dracula's castle and we're outside of a town called Brasov in a ski resort. Man, I've been treated well on these trips. We're ...
The training has been going really well. Its funny, because at training camps like these, the intensity is always greater. Training everyday in the same environment with the same people is baseline training, but when you come to ...
Wladyslawowo! After a week I finally get it right.... Not that my Polish vocab has improved above 2 words, but what can you say, they all like it when I try at least. Its funny because until ...
I'm really not even sure if thats the name of the town we're staying in. We're somewhere in northern Poland staying right on the Baltic Sea. We're staying at one of the Polish Olympic Training Center's but it's ...
