Norman Parke was like a lot of teenagers. What was going to happen five, ten, or twenty years from now didn’t really take precedence over what was going on today…or more precisely, on the weekend.“That’s all we were doing, we were living for the weekend,” said Parke of his teen years, which he’s described as years when he was “heading nowhere.”Eventually though, you hope that teens break out of that pattern and move on to more constructive pursuits. For Parke, that was judo, then mixed martial arts. By 19 he was fighting professionally, and after putting together a ten fight winning streak aft … Read the Full Article Here
Norman Parke: Working for the Weekend
Norman Parke was like a lot of teenagers. What was going to happen five, ten, or twenty years from now didn’t really take precedence over what was going on today…or more precisely, on the weekend.“That’s all we were doing, we were living for the weekend,” said Parke of his teen years, which he’s described as years when he was “heading nowhere.”Eventually though, you hope that teens break out of that pattern and move on to more constructive pursuits. For Parke, that was judo, then mixed martial arts. By 19 he was fighting professionally, and after putting together a ten fight winning streak aft … Read the Full Article Here