Cory Sandhagen

Yeah, that was such a good knee though

That's your sport.

That's your living.

This is what you do.

For me, I was a young kid doing this thing that I was really good at and it just gave me like some sense of purpose.

And then I was like, what the fuck, man?

I had dreams to go to the Olympics.

Was that a realistic dream?

You were that good?

Yeah, I was that good.

I had won national tournaments, and I had beaten guys that had been in high ranking, and I had a very close decision that I thought I should have won

the year that Taekwondo made it into the Olympics against the national champion.

So I was good.

And I was really young, so I was getting better all the time.

But then I started kickboxing.

And when I started training in kickboxing, I realized that Taekwondo was kind of bullshit.

Because my hands sucked, and I would spar with kickboxers, and I was getting cornered in the ropes, and I didn't have the skills.

And I was like, oh, this is like, I have this distorted perception of my ability to fight based on my ability to fight in Taekwondo.

Sure.

I was really good at that.