Lance Storm gained a reputation throughout the course of his career as one of the finest technical wrestlers in the world. A former WWE Intercontinental Champion, WCW United States Champion, and ECW World Tag Team Champion, he was trained at the famous Hart Brothers Pro Wrestling Camp in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After his retirement from WWE in 2005, Storm continued the tradition of wrestling education in the city by opening his own school the Storm Wrestling Academy. Immediately, students flocked to the closest existing link to Stu Hart's legendary "Dungeon." In 2007, I was lucky enough to join the Academy's summer class (go to StormWrestling.com and check the class photos I'm the anemic-looking fellow in the Captain America shirt). It was a great experience, one of the most exciting of my life, and while I haven't pursued a career in the sport (despite telling people at my high school reunion that I am, in fact, Sami Zayn), I will carry the lessons I learned via instruction and practice with me for the rest of my life.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
