Losing More Than a Fight with Tony Blauer

The CrossFit Journal -- () As a child, Tony Blauer was afraid of getting beat up. He was also inordinately attracted to fight scenes in movies. So at the age of 12, he signed up for Taekwondo. He trained seven days a week, and he was “obsessive,“ says Blauer, now 53. From the ages of 20 to 25, he did 30 to 40 private lessons a week. Eventually he opened his own school. But it wasn’t until one of his students lost a fight that Blauer realized he was incorrectly teachi