1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:05,820 [Marine Corps Sgt. John Stefonowicz] High intensity, high impact, no forgiveness. That's a simple way to put it. 2 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:10,720 When you step on the mat, you can throw or you can be thrown. You can get hit or 3 00:00:10,730 --> 00:00:12,520 you can hit them. 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,320 Wrestling was my first sport. It has always interested me 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,310 because it's always been the toughest thing I've ever had to do. 6 00:00:20,310 --> 00:00:23,660 After wrestling, everything else has seemed to be easy -- until I joined the Marine Corps. 7 00:00:23,660 --> 00:00:27,760 And now joining the Marine Corps and being an All-Marine wrestler, it is the hardest 8 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:30,380 thing I've had to do and the most rewarding at the same time. 9 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:33,220 [Intense music] 10 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:38,220 What I do is I fight. I fight every time I'm on the mat it's considered a fight. 11 00:00:38,220 --> 00:00:44,520 And I fight for everything that I believe in and what the Marine Corps stands for. 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,800 All of our standards all the customs and courtesies. 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,540 [intense music] 14 00:00:51,700 --> 00:00:56,530 Being an All-Marine wrestler -- being able to compete at such a high level -- 15 00:00:56,530 --> 00:01:01,580 and being granted this opportunity is something that kids can only dream about sometimes. 16 00:01:01,580 --> 00:01:07,320 [intense music] 17 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:11,300 I'm the happiest I've ever been, being on the team here. 18 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:14,580 I get to be a Marine, and I love being a Marine. 19 00:01:14,590 --> 00:01:19,539 And I don't plan on ever getting out of the Marine Corps, and on top of 20 00:01:19,539 --> 00:01:25,929 that I get to wrestle and showcase what I'm best at in the whole world 21 00:01:25,929 --> 00:01:29,020 to the whole world. 22 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,100 I think a simple version of what I think about when I step on the 23 00:01:32,110 --> 00:01:36,600 mat to wrestle is I see an enemy. 24 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,920 That is the most plain and simple and straightforward way for any Marine 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,460 to compare what I feel and what I see when I go out there. 26 00:01:45,620 --> 00:01:49,400 I don't look at the name, I don't look at the country I don't look at a club, 27 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,840 I look at someone standing in my way of winning. 28 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,739 And I will do and I have done anything and everything that it takes to get past 29 00:01:56,739 --> 00:02:00,689 them to have my hand raised, to show that I have won.