Feeling the bang! DDPY, created by Jersey Shore's Diamond Dallas Page, pays dividends

It's not a stretch to say that DDP Yoga can help people.

And it's all thanks to a local boy.

"Diamond" Dallas Page might be best known for being a WWE Hall of Famer, a three-time WCW Heavyweight champion and the master of his finishing hold, the "Diamond Cutter." But before he was a worldwide star, he grew up at the Jersey Shore.

A back injury caused him to learn different ways to train. While working on a routine for himself, he developed DDP Yoga, also known as DDPY, to help him stay in the ring. It worked for him.

And it's worked for many others.

The Asbury Park Press has been telling stories of the others who have transformed their lives through the program. Every Tuesday, another story will be told.

From professional athletes to people who were unable to get out of bed due to their weight or physical condition, there are stories from people of all walks of life.

From breaking a couch to barriers, Maryland man transforms

Even though Jason Henry was an athlete growing up, he was never really comfortable in his own skin.

“I was big most of my life,” Henry said. “I was always just a big guy, I didn’t like the way I looked. I was always the kind of guy who swam with my shirt on. But I could do things like cartwheels, so I justified ‘I’m still active.’ I told myself there were people who were worse." READ MORE

Advertising exec, 74, never felt younger thanks to DDP Yoga

At 72 years old, Dianne Kusztos Wilson’s mind was still as sharp as ever, still running her own successful advertising agency.

She has always been young at heart, and really didn’t like to think of herself as “old” — but one day, looking at her worn, wrinkled hands, she got emotional. They were a reminder that she was no longer as young as she used to be. READ MORE

From a broken to another fight, Butterbean back in business

Diamond Dallas Page is no stranger to overcoming insurmountable odds. He’s practically an expert at it.

Whether it was proving to the naysayers that he could become a top professional wrestler at the age of 35, or coming back from what doctors told him was a career-ending back injury to helping his friend Jake “The Snake” Roberts get sober after over 30 years of addiction, there’s very little that DDP thinks is impossible. READ MORE

Woman changes life, survives cancer diagnosis

Candi McCarthy Herndon felt like a failure.

At 39, she felt ugly, overweight and worthless. That’s what she’d been told for much of her youth. Her mother, a lifelong alcoholic and drug addict, once joked about leaving her alone on the beach (when she was a baby) while she bought drugs from her dealer. READ MORE

The power of community helped one, inspired millions

As a paratrooper in the Army, Arthur Boorman was no stranger to jumping out of planes. But he never fell harder than he did after he got home.  Boorman was in his 40s when his body started breaking down. Years of wear and tear on his body from his 15-year career took its toll. READ MORE

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