Meet The Team

When Adam was a young man, his girlfriend's ex cornered him outside a trailer on a gravel driveway. He had years of taekwondo. Brown belt. Competed at state level. None of it mattered. He was pinned with no room to kick, standing on gravel where footwork meant falling on his face.

That fear never left him. So he spent the next 25 years making sure it would never happen again.

He worked the door at the roughest bar in town on purpose... a place full of drug dealers and criminals. Two to three fights a night, Thursday through Saturday, for two years straight. Hundreds of real fights. His first night, a woman's boyfriend was beating her and Adam stepped in. She smashed a beer bottle on his face. The boyfriend beat the shit out of him. His girlfriend asked how long he'd keep doing this. He said, "Until my knees stop shaking."

He joined the military. Made it to a Tier 1 special operations unit where he ran the fight team. Spent time at Blackwater. Trained with UFC champions including Michael Bisping. Spent 5 cumulative years in active combat zones. Did close protection work, often without a weapon.

Every step was the same filter: does it work when you're terrified, exhausted, and surprised? If not, it got cut. What survived became HAVOC.