J Robinson Receives Philanthropic Award from Smile Network International MINNEAPOLIS, October 3, 2017 – Last weekend, J Robinson, founder of JROB Intensive Camps and three-time NCAA National Champion wrestling coach, was honored by Minneapolis nonprofit humanitarian organization Smile Network International (SNI) as one of this year’s “Champion of Hope” award recipients. Since 2012, Robinson has placed a donation box at each one of the four JROB Intensive Camps and encouraged campers to donate. The Robinson family then matches their donations dollar-for-dollar, resulting in donations totaling $43,653 over the past five years. At each of the four JROB Intensive Camps, Robinson and his staff focus on teaching life skills called “The J7”— Discipline, Dedication, Sacrifice, Hard Work, Responsibility, Accountability, and Service. Camp directors and counselors stress the importance of being a community leader through kindness, inclusiveness, and helping those in need, but just like anything else, service is a learned skill. For that reason, donation boxes are placed in the camp store and campers are urged to donate throughout camp. “We chose the Smile Network as a fundraising operation because in dealing with our young campers, we know for them to buy in they have to see meaningful results that are…

One of the biggest things is why we train the way we do at the Intensive Camp and the reason we train that way is to build an endurance base both mentally and physically. As I’ve said before there's four parts to be a good athlete; there’s technique, there’s strength, there's endurance and there's mental attitude. Everybody wants to do the technique part because it's cool that it's easy, strength training is a little bit harder, and endurance training is the hardest of all. So at camp what we do is everything is based around endurance; the ability to function over and over and over again. You have to be able to function when you're tired. Anybody can do anything that's easy and if it was easy everybody would do it. Everybody's heard that comment time and time and time again, but the endurance part of it, that's the hard part. So we run at camp and people talk about “all they do is run at camp, all you do is wrestle hard”, but they don't understand, they don't get it because the way that you get it is by the hard training and by running. There's no easy…