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     My name is Scott Bolinger, founder of the Warrior Rage Kickboxing Style and author of the WRKB book.

     While I was growing up, as a kid I did have many interests in different sports. My first sport was baseball and gymnastics. About 7^th grade I got into weight lifting. My father who was the 1965 Mr. Nebraska taught me the proper way to lift weights. Then 8^th and 9^th grade I participated in wrestling. I started using martial arts weapons when I was 15. Just messing around with throwing stars and nunchakus. But I didn’t get enrolled in a martial arts school until I was 16 years old. And martial arts came very natural to me. With the combination of weight lifting and martial arts, it made me a faster and more powerful fighter. I was able to see a punch beginning to happen and pop up a sidekick or roundhouse kick faster than most people can throw a punch. The first art I studied was Shotokan Karate. I studied that for about 7 months, then went to just training myself for quite a while. I also studied Tae-kwon-Do, Kenpo, Jukaido and Chinese KickBoxing from various schools. But my primary art was always Shotokan.

     I started competing in point tournament fights after I received my orange belt in Shotokan. I did try a few tournaments competing with weapons, kata and kumite, but I just found for myself that the Kumite was my expertise. I was more comfortable with kumite, because I was able to be zoned out so the crowd never bothered me, but when I did weapons or form I was always a little nervous. One of the things that helped me in my fighting skills is that I had 5 buddies that I always trained and sparred with about every day. I believe in your development as a fighter, having one or more training partners would be a big help. That way your not just doing the standard 2-day work out per week. To be better than the best, you have to go above and beyond your standard workout.

     In 1987 I won one of my better tournaments in the men’s advanced class at the Paha Sapa Championships. Which back then was a pretty big tournament. Also in 1987 I went on to win an open Tae Kwan Do tournament in Scottsbluff, then shortly after that I joined the Airforce and spent some time in Germany and competed in a few tournaments there. When I competed in Germany, that was the first time I ever lost a match. I lost 2 matches over there. But it was in 1988 that I eventually started righting this book. Jotting down what I learned, what extra training I did to make me such a good fighter. Basically going threw my personal inventory of what I did to become a good fighter and what I was missing in my training then and worked on getting back on tract. And also I would have a reference guide to fall back on so I didn’t forget training techniques. I was honorably discharged from the AirForce in 1990. Then I decide to do a try one in the Army National Guards. After that I got a job working at a manufacturing plant, which was pretty much a dead end job for about 9 years.

     In the year of 2000 I had a change in jobs and started working for the YMCA and at that time I started back into training regularly as well as getting back to writing in my book. Working at the YMCA, I supervised basketball and volleyball. I started getting into shape again and eventually took on a couple of students to train in karate. With the extra time on my hands I also diversified some income investing into stocks and rental property. The rental property did all right for a couple of years in helping support some of my training needs. The stocks, most of them did so bad I’d rather not talk about that..lol… But some times you gotta have a sense of humor about investments.

     In 2002 I expanded my training and had my training sessions more open rather than just personal training. That kicked up my students to about 20 kids. And at that time we were training out doors. So when it started getting into winter I had to shut down. Having to do that, I started on my quest to learn how to start up a Boxing and Kickboxing school. And also to learn how to raise money to buy a building. I went through a controversy on weather filing for for-profit or non-profit. I finally decided to go with the non-profit organization and got my non-profit status in Dec 2002 and reopened to start training in January 2003 and created the boxing and kickboxing school called the “Warrior Rage Civic Center,” with my style of fighting called “Warrior Rage KickBoxing”. During that break time I also started the katas to fit my own personal style of fighting. As a rule of thumb, practicing your katas on a daily bases will create better focus and enhance your fighting ability and it helps you gain focus. Through a persistent effort I found someone to donate the use of there building and I also took on 2 volunteer coaches and we set up a training schedule for the boxers and kickboxers. At that time I found a pretty big interest in the boxing techniques and training and started incorporating that into my kickboxing style and it worked extremely well. And I got a real kick out of seeing my fighters change, and grow into mature respectable fighters.

     Looking back at the two losses in German, I guess I’m still a little pissed about that. But I also think, if I wouldn’t have had the loss, that maybe I wouldn’t have wrote this book and maybe I wouldn’t of grown into such a good coach.

    I currently reside in Alliance Nebraska with my wife Marilyn. And I currently partake in being a personal trainer in both Alliance, Chadron and Crawford.

Personal Interests

◙   Boxing

◙   KickBoxing (WarriorRage KickBoxing)

        ◙   fishing

      ◙  investment opportunities

Current Projects

◙   expanding the interest in boxing and kickboxing in western Nebraska

◙   creating this website to help coaches coordinate tournaments I do that through the forum and WRKF Chat.

◙   Offering a live in training program for fighters looking to making fighting a career.

      ◙     Expanding the product like for the WarriorRage Products.

        ◙    developing a emblem for the WarriorRage KickBoxing Federation

Contact Information

Address

507 Niobrara

Alliance Nebraska

69301

E-mail address

wrkf@warriorrage.com   

Instant Messenger

MSN: scottbolinger@hotmail.com

Yahoo: warriorrage

ICQ: 40313845

Web address

www.warriorrage.com

www.wrkf.us

Office phone

308-762-3382