Jan Ohrstrom "Valhalla Club" Wrestling

2019-05-15T17:56:14-04:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5o6JlYNt0

Not only is Army Veteran Jan Ohrstrom a wrestler, he’s a producer of the documentary “Valhalla Club.” The feature documents how three wrestlers, including Jan, formed a wrestling stable based on collectively fighting their PTSD through wrestling. The doc details each wrestler’s combat experience, how they adjusted to coming home and how they each found wrestling. If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, you can watch is for free.

The Valhalla Club Documentary Trailer

The Valhalla Club follows three Iraq Veterans who have found an extraordinary and powerful way to cope with PTSD.

Response by Ryan Callahan made May 15 at 2019 6:06 PM

2019-05-15T18:06:05-04:00

Can't wait to watch this documentary!

Response by Cpl Tyeson Bebee made May 15 at 2019 7:55 PM

2019-05-15T19:55:13-04:00

Would love to do pro wrestling watched it growing up and still watch it one of those guilty pleasures lol

Response by A1C Thomas Robert Ilsley Jr made May 15 at 2019 9:03 PM

2019-05-15T21:03:50-04:00

For 11 months, only I myself, occupied a small cabin as an electron technician, maintaining 11 transceivers that communicated between the radar operators and the fighter jet pilots, that chased the Russian Fighter jets back to Russia. I went to the main site every day to eat and sleep but didn’t really get to know people. I cannot be credited or any heroic deed. I have avoided death and have guilt because of it. I was not in combat because I found a way to avoid it. I left the Army, “Ready Freddy’s“, that were among the first to police Vietnam. I found a way to transfer to the Air Force for another four years and when I checked on what happened to the, Ready Freddie’s, I was told that none of them came back. I have to shamefully admit that I am not willing to give up my life for others. Nevertheless I found out different when my daughter was born.
It was a relief to know that I could give up my life for somebody else.
While in isolation in Alaska, I did get a relief by teaching a Sunday school class of native Alaskan children, every Sunday. They were the only ones that had they close relationship with me and I loved them very much. After a 9.2 Richter scale earthquake in 1964 and a brain injury, I was honorably discharge & got a one month early out to go to college. I did not admit that those children I love so much, were dead until 2004. Up until then I had excruciating and frequent migraines every time I try to relax. As long as I was under pressure, I was OK but at least three times a week I was without stress and became extremely sick. Now, I am too wordy. People don’t want to listen to me because it would take too long. Please forgive me for being so wordy.
I really don’t know why I put this comment here. Please forgive me. Thank you.
Respectfully yours ,
TOM R ILSLEY JR. “I 1800” <-nickname
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Response by Thomas Kuna made May 15 at 2019 11:21 PM

2019-05-15T23:21:50-04:00

Great trailer! working out of PTSD. A lot of civilians get milder cases of PTSD -- maybe 30-50% of US civilians have suffered some sort of trauma that it sometimes takes a life-time to work through, Sports, work, working the land, and family life -- or at least small-group life in an intentional community can help heal the pain. Our Sts Isidore & Wife Maria Farmers' Cottage -- which is so far the only intentional household we have in our NFP: St Marcellus House(s) of Hospitality for Homeless and/or PTSD-suffering Veterans and or their immediate Families and/or Others in Like Straits invites Rally Point readers to read our news letter about what we try to do. It's one of the 7-8 essays at blue-lined hyperlinks just below the Nav-Bar at our url: http://www.w-e-r-co.com The Newsletter is at the center right there. Itr's called: BUGLER: Veterans Green(e) Energy Co-Ops Project. It's about 38 pp long. The one project we especially are working on is the St. Marcellus Group, at the hyperlink near the center of the section of hyper-links. Our biggest need now is to scrape together funding for the up-front cash to lease a 2019 Toyota Prius to be able to commute to factory work 40 miles away near Granite City Illinois. We are in a small rural village and jobs are as hard to find as "pulling steel teeth with a pair of plastic tweezers" (as a 44 yr old John H W -- a great fan of WWE and a Vet's son and one of our low-income residents -- and a good member of our intentional community in the CW (Catholic Worker-inspired) tradition -- likes to say! So if anyone can spare a few dollars to donate toward such a Kane Zip-Code Area Transit/Sports/Community Library Co-Ops (please click the Donate button at the upper right hand of our URL. One can also donate to us via Network For Good or Amazon Smile. Or Phone us at [login to see] . We can make room for one single male Veteran here in about a half days work of carpentry to build in a bed into a closet. The other bed is in the Kitchen. John's double bed is inthe Living room and Don (our Comptroller and kind of major domo handyman has a bedrom to himself). In theory, we could take in a Vet and lawful spouse to sleep where John sleeps now, John could sleep in the place I sleep at now -- in the kitchen; and I'd sleep in the bed-to-be-built in the closet of my office. My name is Tom Kuna-Jacob, I'm 71 and a retired teacher with a heart for Vets. I've had to work through some PTSD from childhood traumes sufferred at age 5 from playmates in war-games; and aggravated by traumaic footage of wars and holocaust that were first broadcast to the TV public on Walter Cronkites excellent Series "The XXth Century" in i953 at my age of 5. So personal trauma and the crises of world history intersected in my soul and have remained ever since -- making me more of an active-citizen-participant in public affairs than the average person. RSVP anyone. (Repondez s'il vous plait -- Answer please (anyone)

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Response by PO3 Meg Erber made May 16 at 2019 9:12 AM

2019-05-16T09:12:09-04:00

Im a Navy vet who has been training and competing in brazilian jiu jitsu for the last 12 years. I also teach womens self defense seminars using the Gracie system. I love what you are doing and if there is any room for a Navy Vet/Jiu Jitsu purple belt, Id love to be a part of it.

Response by PVT Private RallyPoint Member made May 16 at 2019 12:05 PM

2019-05-16T12:05:35-04:00

How can I get involved in this? I need a reliable way to find my escape.

Response by SP5 Mike Venuto made May 17 at 2019 12:49 PM

2019-05-17T12:49:53-04:00

Playing Rugby was my saving grace...Thank God...

Response by PO2 Art Tyree made May 17 at 2019 6:39 PM

2019-05-17T18:39:15-04:00

Would like to participate if you guys do some wrestling on west coast. Navy vet here, fitness buff and enjoy participator sport.