Living This Life: Hockey Style

Gongshow Gear is a brand that displays my personality best. Gongshow is the present image of hockey at any level, and shows people that this sport is a lifestyle. Hockey players miss weekends with friends, and each year create a new twenty person family. Hockey players wake up at the crack of dawn to go to a freezing cold rink, put on ten pounds of armor and skate around on one of the roughest surfaces on earth; by choice non the less. Hockey is everything to anyone who truly has played, and cannot be compared to any feeling on earth.

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Dress for the Occasion

Going to private high school there was an enforced dress code; it consisted of a dress shirt, tie, slacks, dress shoes, belt, and black socks. Most guys at school would simply wear what they could to keep them out of trouble and through the day. However, I wasn’t like most guys at my school. I was told that I “look like a groomsman at the reception after a wedding”. I wore black pants, shoes and belt every day, and on multiple days during the week I would wear one of two, button down vests to add to the look.

 

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Resting Your Head

My name is Cody Selbert. I’m seventeen and a freshman. I’m from Buffalo, NY. However, home is anywhere I spend a period of time in my life. Since hockey has been my entire life growing up, and because of that I have traveled to more places than I can remember. Becoming comfortable and respecting my surroundings are ideas I was raised to follow, which shaped how I view the term home. Along with that view of home, I also believe in God and Jesus. But will never force my opinion onto anyone. So sleep well at UMBC, HOME.

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