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A Wooden-like coach
A Next Great Adventure talk by Holden May · Austin Academy Main
A Wooden-like coach
He got absolutely cooked in his first two fencing competitions - then trained every day for seven years, won the Malaysian Games, and fenced at the SEA Games. Now he's mapping a year-by-year route to the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and a career as a world-class strength coach.
A year ago he stood on an NGA stage and asked for a SketchUp subscription; he taught himself 3D modeling and cold-emailed his way into four apprenticeships. Now he's headed to an 80-hour summer apprenticeship at Gensler in Chicago - the largest architecture firm in the U.S. - chasing one question: what is architecture in the era of AI?
Three Yale contract-law courses and 300+ hours of legal apprenticeships later, Aryan built Legal Duck - an AI contract-analysis platform now being beta tested by practicing transactional attorneys. His credo: most people wait for permission. He started building anyway.