WC: When you mention the term yoga to some people particularly the guys there can sometimes be a bit of a negative stigma attached... DDP: Thats why I never let anyone call it yoga its always DDP Yoga. When Im with a group of people, at a signing or whatever; inevitably someone will come up to me and be like Hey, man; Ive been doing your yoga and Ive lost 60lbs... and Ill be like What did you call it?! Ill point to my chest and the big DDP Yoga logo on my t-shirt and theyll all start laughing. Once you get them to laugh and take a step in, theyre yours. Its like being back wrestling: if you can take em to the mat, youve got em. WC: How do you go about converting those who dismiss DDP Yoga due to the association with traditional yoga? DDP: For starters, it aint your mamas yoga! Im a guy that wouldnt be caught dead doing yoga for the first 42 years of my life and so many people are the same way. Right now DDP Yoga would probably be a $100,000,000 company if it didnt have the word yoga in there. But it would be like all these other workouts like P90X and Turbo Jam theyve all had a great run but eventually theyll all fade away. You know what doesnt fade away? Yoga! Its about recreating the word. My goal is to change the meaning of the word yoga, one person at a time. Sooner or later, theyll get that the yoga were doing, aint the yoga that theyre used to doing. So its a different way to view the word and when you make it as fun as Ive tried to make it, little by little, youll win people over.
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