© Marc Wickert
www.knucklepit.com
1 Feb. 2007

Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, IFL Condor Adam Lynn now lives in Orange county, but he clarifies that he is not one of those ‘bad' Harley Davidson guys: "No, no, not at all. That's a different Orange County: They're from Orange County, New York. I'm in Orange County, California," says Lynn.

Prior to getting into MMA, Adam was involved in a defense system of a different kind, having served in the US Marines from 1998 till 2002. "I was kinda in a dead-end spot. A lot of my friends went to college and I had no interest in going to college, but I wanted to get out of doing the same old thing where I grew up. So I thought it was a good decision on my part to join the military. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made."

Although Adam did tour with the marines regularly, he says he wasn't involved in active duty. "I was stationed in California, but I never saw any action. We went on a couple of routine deployments, and actually hit Australia a couple of times; it was the best time of my life. We went to Brisbane twice: The first time there was some sort of regatta there – a really big deal – and hell, yeah, it was the best time of my life: the best six days I've ever had."

Not surprisingly with Adam's MMA background, he wasn't a cook or navigator in the marines, but rather a heavy machine-gunner. "It was a pretty cool job," says Lynn, who also states he did not get into the fighting arts through the marines' unarmed combat training.

"I had a guy in my platoon who was a judo blackbelt – the marines really had nothing to do with it; during off-time, we would get together and he would show me some stuff, and that's how I got started. Then I pushed it from there."

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