Life After Wrestling
The birth of the Yoga for Regular Guys Workout came in 1998 while Page was recovering from ruptures to his L4/L5 discs. He was reluctantly brought into power yoga with his wife Kimberly. While watching her daily workouts, he realized that yoga had benefits that he had not yet explored. Page regained his flexibility and strength that were hindered by his ruptured disks. His favorite kind of yoga (according to his "Yoga for Regular Guys" book) is "Power Yoga," an Americanized version of "Ashtanga Style" yoga. Page worked with Dr. Craig Aaron, the "Yoga-Doc" and made his own the Yoga for Regular Guys Workout.
He then developed the book into a series of workout videos titled DDP YOGA (formerly YRG), directed by Mason Bendewald.
DDP Yoga moved into a national spotlight with the explosion of the Arthur Boorman video when it went viral in May 2012. The story was quickly picked up by Reddit.com, Huffington Post.com, About.com, Prevention.com, abcnews.com, yahoo.com, aol.com, and Good Morning America among others where it was also featured on the show itself. The video describes the journey of Arthur Boorman, disabled veteran who was told that he would never walk again. After 15 years on crutches he was able to lose 140 pounds in 10 months and able to walk again without the use of his crutches, back braces or leg braces.
Page is commonly associated with the "Self High Five" as well as the "Diamond Cutter" symbol, a hand gesture made by joining the thumbs and index fingers on each hand to form a diamond shape, then parting the two hands in one swift motion. He created the symbol in 1996 and later trademarked it. In December 2005, Page filed a lawsuit against rapper Jay-Z, who, he claimed, had "illegally adopted his trademark hand gesture". Page accused Jay-Z of trademark and copyright infringement, and sought a prohibitive injunction and monetary damages. It resulted in Page dropping the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money. On August 31, 2010, Page filed a lawsuit against American electronica musical duo 3OH!3 for copyright infringement of his trademarked "Diamond Cutter" hand gesture.
In early 1998, Page appeared in the music video for the song "Rising" by Stuck Mojo, off of Stuck Mojo's album of the same name. Raven and The Flock also made an appearance in the music video. The WCW United States title belt was prominently featured on the album cover.
Diamond Dallas Page also appeared in The Devil's Rejects along with Danny Trejo as a pair of bounty hunters who call themselves "The Unholy Two".
In March 2000, He sang a duet with Zorak in the 2nd episode of Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak.
Starting January 14, 2010, Page appears in the GSN reality series Carnie Wilson: Unstapled. In a promo for the show, Carnie is speaking to Page on her couch. He also shows up in her singing promo for the show. He apparently has a major role to play in it as Carnie's work-out coach, friend and pseudo-therapist. Prior to her recent pregnancy, he helped Carnie lose 50 pounds (which she regained during the pregnancy) and plans to slim her down again as part of the show.
DDP hosts his own radio show titled "DDP Radio," which is available at http://www.ddpradio.com/
DDP Will be featured in WWE'13 as DLC.
Read more about this topic: Diamond Dallas Page
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or wrestling:
“Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)