Radio Interview

Jatinder Dhoot interviews Dr James Stoxen DC of Team Doctors

Subject:  Andrei Arlovski defeats Justin Eilers UFC # 53

Station:  CHRY 105.5 FM Toronto

June 6th, 2005

For more information on Andrei Arlovski go to www.andreiarlovski.com

Jatinder - Of course main event Andrei Arlovski defeats Justin Eilers.  The man working in his corner and helping him a lot with the chiropractic is Dr James Stoxen who is joining us now.  Hows it going James?

Dr Stoxen  - Everythings beautiful when you win.

Jatinder - Yea exactly pretty impressive victory overall.  What are your thoughts overall?

Dr Stoxen  - Well, like I had in my web site, who elects to kickoff and who elects to receive?  When you put a couple low kicks on the inside of that knee, I don’t know if he’s ever felt those low kicks to the knee before but they are very painful.

Jatinder - Oh yea

Dr Stoxen  - And you are going to go down

Jatinder - Yes, it was definitely a great victory for him.  You’ve been working with Andrei for quite a while

Dr Stoxen  - Andrei came to me and was assigned to me by the manager, when he first came here to the united states from Belarus Russia.  I think it was 5 or 6 years ago he was in his early twenties.  He had just done very well in the Sambo World Championships.  We were really impressed with him because he had a tremendous genetics, had a great work ethic and did exactly what we told him to do which is something to looking for when you are trying to make a world champion.  So he came to us very young and he was moldable which is some of the toughest things when dealing with these athletes is that they bee come a national champion and they have worked with one national champion which is themselves and guys like us have worked with or talked to 2 – 300 national and world champions or more and we are able to sample information from these champions and pass on that information to the next athlete and if they get a little cocky then they don’t learn and they don’t absorb and when you are stubborn you always loose.

Jatinder - Yes definitely now overall working with Andrei what do you do with him?

Dr Stoxen  - When he first came here we decided to was give him an overall evaluation to determine what his biomechanics and what his weak points were.  And then at that time what we found is that in the Soviet Union there really weren’t very good footwear and his arches were a little weak even though he has very powerful legs.  I started working on his feet all the way up his legs inch by inch by hand removing every spasm from his frame.  He would come in three days a week with his manager and we would sit there for one to an hour and a half a night going through him meticulously through his entire body removing every spasm, every joint restriction and theoretically making his frame as perfect as possible.   The reason why I did this was to set up a nice solid foundation for the future so his body wouldn’t have all the injuries.  In this game its basically the longer you stay in it the greater the opportunity to be a world champion.

Jatinder - Everyone talks about all the striking you have to learn all the grappling you have to learn and the wrestling you have to learn.  What about things like this the chiropractic do you think that this is something that is sometimes overlooked by people?

Dr Stoxen  - Well you know what like I said before if you want to be a world champion, you have to go through a lot of fighters.  If you have an injury you are out.  You have to take sometimes 2 – 3 months off.  Guys who are looking to make it to any position in any sport in the world they have to do the preventive and plan for the future.  In other words if we have a powerlifter who has broke a national record and is looking at breaking a world record, or even if they haven’t broke any records, you need to build solid muscle tissue on a framework that is moving correctly and is structurally sound.  You have to start with a solid foundation and then you apply muscle to it.  That is the premise of what we did with Andrei.  We realigned his entire frame, we took every muscle spasm we could find out of him and he had a training program that would put solid muscle tissue to make sure he could endure all the punishment he was going to take.

Jatinder - Andrei has come a long way in the past few years, what do you think the key to his success?

Dr Stoxen  - The key to his success is that the decision making that has taken place in his career such as who his juditsu trainer is, Dino and who his boxing trainer is Mike Garcia and once you find something that works you stick to it.  A lot of times is see professional fighters will knock out 4 or 5 people in a row and they move up in the ranks to be ranked 5th in the world and they think the grass is greener on the other side of the hill and what they need to do is think of what is working right and tweek it a little bit  and improve and stay with what you are doing.  I got a text message from Andrei from the Soviet Union after he won his world title and he said “Why should I come back to Chicago?”  I said because you are a world champion and its because of what you are doing right that has made you a world champion and everybody wants to be like you.  Why would you change to try to be like them when they are trying to be like you.

Jatinder - Right Right

Dr Stoxen  - Guys will be on a strength and conditioning program and its knockout after knockout and its tremendous success and then they will come to me and say that their manager wants them to go to California and run in the hills and they will be gone for a month and a half and they are not planning on doing their strength and conditioning and I look at them and say “Why are you doing that when everything is working great and now you don’t know what the outcome is going to be because they are changing everything and sure enough they get a decision instead of a knockout, go out of town for a fight and the next time end up loosing.  What I can say don’t change everything completely, just tweek it a bit.

Jatinder - Definitely Definitely now we really appreciate you taking your time and you can find out more information at www.teamdoctors.org? 

Dr Stoxen  - Right 

Jatinder - We look forward to chatting in the future.

Dr Stoxen  - Thank you for letting me be on the show and if anyone wants more information on Andrei they can go to www.andreiarlovski.com