Biography

Full Name: James Alexander Hutchinson

1973 - Born at Goddard Hospital in Stoughton, Massachusetts

1975 - As a child he lived in several towns including Brockton, Quincy, Middleboro and Taunton.

1978 - Moving around made it difficult to make friends so he mostly kept to himself. This resulted in crippling shyness. In kindergarten he peed in his pants afraid of asking to go to the bathroom. A classmate made fun of him and got punched in the nose.

1983 - Settled in parents hometown of Avon, Massachusetts. Completed four years at Crowley Middle School. 

1985 - As part of a school assignment he submitted three poems which would all be published in a book of poetry entitled "Voices from the Hollow." It was the first creative work he had written.

1986 - Started a secret homosexual relationship with his best friend. They never discussed their intimacy with anyone keeping the relationship in the closet. They stayed together for six years before parting ways.

1986 - While in Avon he played Soccer, Baseball and Basketball but performed poorly at team sports. During those years he got in a lot of fights so decided to focus on Martial Arts. He studied Isshin-ryu Karate, Goju-ryu, Chung Moo Quan and later Wing Chun.

1986 - One night his father came home drunk and enraged. He barged into Alex's bedroom, grabbed the knife from the windowsill, put it in Alex's hand and held the blade to his father's throat. He screamed at the terrified boy, "The day you take a shot at me, you better kill me!" Similar threats would follow for the next twenty years.

1987 - Attending Blue Hills Regional Technical High School in Canton, MA he studied Electrical, Data Processing and Graphic Arts. He was socially awkward with poor grades and easily distracted by an overactive imagination. During class he was often writing short stories or creating exercise plans.

1989 - Bullied in high school he used his martial arts to defend himself. A compulsive list maker he wrote down all of his encounters: 18 street fights 9 wins, 9 losses - 13 wrestling fights 12 wins, 1 loss. He was expelled from Blue Hills for fighting near the end of his junior year.

1989 - Outside of school he was always surrounded by a loyal group of friends. A natural leader he called these groups military prep teams taking on names like the Junior Marines, Black Berets and most notably the HAWKS Foundation. Together they did physical training, practiced armed combat and engaged in dangerous nighttime missions. Years later he would write a three book series about their adventures.

1990 - While on one of their nighttime missions Alex and his crew found a decapitated body. The head was missing and the hands were mangled. This terrifying discovery gave him nightmares for a week. He would later write about the experience in his book Sevlow.

1991 - Inspired by Bruce Lee's philosophy he continued to study martial arts developing a method of his own known as Wei Tai Jutsu. It attempted to create a structure through which fighters could practice various arts to discover which moves they should master as an expression of their individual athleticism. It took two years to develop the method which he mastered over four more years and then taught to students. The core of the system is a 1000 move kata, a brief portion of which can be seen in this video clip.

1991 - While staying with a friend in Stoughton, MA he was experiencing suicidal thoughts. This drove him to climb to the top of an electrical tower during a lightning storm. When he survived the attempt he took it as a sign that it wasn't yet his time.

1991 - Along with a small group of amateur fighters he formed a Street Boxing club. They battled in backyards with store bought gloves and headgear. The matches had few rules and a fair amount of blood. He learned to box at Gomes gym in Middleboro then won the Street Boxing title and defended it several times. Amateur boxing record 11-1-1 (3).

1991 - His parents purchased a house in Middleboro, MA. He moved in with them and graduated from Middleboro Evening School with straight A's.

1992 - Joined the United States Army Reserve as an Infantryman (MOS 11H). Completed a pre-basic training course at Fort Devens along with eight weekends at the US Army Reserve base in Danvers, MA. Entered basic training at Sand Hill in Fort Benning, Georgia. Took the top spot in phase one physical training, scored Sharpshooter in Advanced Rifle Marksmanship and Expert in Grenades. General discharge from the Army due to complications from a sleep disorder.

1993 - Attended Fisher College in Taunton, MA studying English Literature. Preferring real life experience over the classroom he dropped out after one semester. Understanding the importance of education he decided to teach himself. He made a list of every book he studied and poured into any subject that interested him eventually reading over 1,300 titles.

1993 - A series of unfortunate incidents spiraled within a few months time. The bank foreclosed on his parent's house, he was laid off from his job at Sunoco, two girlfriend's cheated on him, his van blew a head gasket and suddenly he was homeless.

1994 - Suffering from severe depression he lived as an outcast in the dilapidated Middleboro neighborhood known as Juckettville. One summer was spent sleeping in tents and cars while other jobless Gen-X friends were being harassed and jailed for non-violent drug offenses by crooked local cops. The Juckettville group came to an end when his closest friend was beaten senseless by a member of the Manson gang.

1994 - Desperate for a place to sleep he visited his parent's new apartment where they informed him that he was adopted. The man who raised him was not his biological father. This alcoholic Vietnam Veteran with severe PTSD who had been threatening his life since age 13 screamed in his face, "I never wanted you!"

1994 - While living with a girlfriend he wrote a handful of small self-help books that he photocopied and sold at Maria's Hallmark shop in downtown Middleboro, MA. While promoting the booklets he was interviewed by the Middleboro Gazette, The Enterprise and the Standard Times.

1994 - Alex has a lifelong love of the sport of bodybuilding. It started at age 13 with his first Muscle & Fitness magazine. He trained at different gyms and attended bodybuilding shows where he met legends of the sport like Lou Ferrigno, Shawn Ray and Flex Wheeler. Training with his friend Tim in Florida, they went deep into heavy lifting and beach photo shoots.

1995 - Traveling to Windham, New York in the Catskill mountains he and two friends joined Vidbell's Circus. Working as tent laborers they toured New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This allowed him an opportunity to visit New York City, see Times Square and watch a Broadway show. He would hook up with the same Circus a year later touring with them on Cape Cod.

1995 - Took random classes at Massasoit Community College (Brockton, MA) including Bookkeeping and Self-Hypnosis.

1995 - Created a cable access comedy show called, "Where's the Beef." Friends gathered to develop and perform skits much like a low budget Saturday Night Live. Only a small number of episodes were completed.

1995 - He spent his days delivering flowers and his nights at Middleboro public library where he used their computers to experiment with long form fiction. He wrote three books with the titles DragonFear, Kurt Cobain Syndrome and Subtle as a Trainwreck. Each explored different facets of confusion, depression and personal tragedy.

1996 - Worked backstage on the Middleboro high school musical Little Shop of Horrors. Helping to construct the set, he also worked behind the scenes during performances to animate the massive plant creature. Months later he played four characters in the stage play Spoon River at the Middleboro Unitarian Universalist Society.

1996 - Befriended a small religious group known as the Jesus Freaks. These youngsters attended a radical fundamentalist church while riding high on self-righteous narcissism. They watched Christian movies, read Christian comic books and listened to Christian rock. The group broke up when their personal secrets began to spill out. One kid crashed a car while drunk driving, another was addicted to pills, one was gay and two were having sex out of wedlock.

1996 - Studied religious education at the Middleboro branch of the Unitarian Universalist Society. Focused on practicing Wicca he started the short lived Coven of Diamondwood and completed a ritual known as the Test of Fear. Local churches learned of his coven forcing him to defend his religious freedom at a public meeting held at the Middleboro library.

1997 - Still struggling with public anxiety and yet longing to be a writer he decided to face both challenges by working at multiple bookstores including Waldenbooks & Lauriats (Both in Kingston, MA) and later Book Market & Books-a-Million (Sarasota & Orlando, FL). The interface with customers eventually increased his social confidence.

1997 - Once again his drunken father took issue with Alex returning home. He assaulted his adopted son who was now fully capable of defending himself. A neighbor saw the fight and called the police. His father was arrested for assault & battery. Alex dropped the charges under the agreement that his Dad seek help for his alcoholism.

1997 - Studied small aircraft aviation at the Alpha One Flight School in Plymouth, MA. Flew only once but went up in a variety of single engine craft including a Piper Cub, Cessna and even a Bi-Plane. After a few classes he dropped the course due to a shortage of funds. 

1998 - Worked with his brothers and their friends on several low budget action films including All American Kumite, Guardian Angel, and Pepi the Prep. Traveled to Florida assembling a new cast and crew to film three more independent movies - Prime Directive, Countdown to Apoc and Aftermath.

1998 - Alex started a relationship with a young lady he met in Florida. Knowing nothing about love, the relationship was a tornado of cheating, lying and fighting. They broke up and reconciled over and over for roughly four years. They both learned many lessons about what it means to care for another person. Part of that drama would later be written about in the book Virgin Gloves.

1999 - Returning to Port Charlotte, FL he joined the Extreme Backyard Alliance (EBA), a backyard wrestling group that performed bi-weekly shows to live audiences. He started as a referee but quickly converted into a wrestler known as The Official plus he played a secondary role as a masked wrestler named Magnitude. He competed in 24 matches which included winning and defending the EBA Intercontinental title. His promotional efforts landed the EBA in newspapers and soon after he would appear on a wrestling talk show discussing the experience.

2000 - Hired by TransPro Courier to be a bank courier for the Metro Boston area. This job continued two trends, the first was being hired as the youngest person in a company only to become the top employee in less than a year. The second was adding significant travel in a career as a commercial driver eventually accumulating over 1 million miles.

2000 - Expanding on his experience with backyard wrestling, Alex started his own federation titled Hutchinson Freestyle. He put on 10 pounds of muscle, wrestled in a pink mask and was known as Red Scorpion. Alongside his brothers Alex competed in 18 matches that were filmed for wrestling fans.

2000 - Trained by the Massachusetts Libertarian Party in electioneering he worked on Congressional and Senatorial campaigns. His election updates were published in the Carver Reporter newspaper. Four years later he was trained by the Florida Democratic party and worked on two more major elections.

2002 - Hired as a boxing publicist by HCG 5 Star Promotions in Tampa, Florida, his job was to promote the career of then undefeated heavyweight fighter China "The Dragon" Smith. He made contact with multiple boxing publications and celebrities to help raise the profile of the fighter. His writing appeared in magazines such as KO, Boxing Digest and Ring Magazine. China Smith appeared on Showtime Championship Boxing fighting for the vacant NBA heavyweight title, a match he lost by a brutal 3rd round knockout.

2002 - Started dating Terri Brashear, whom he met at a Dungeons & Dragons game in Englewood, Florida. Ten years later they would get married in Punta Gorda, FL and honeymoon in the Bahamas.

2002 - Competed at a couple of fight clubs in front of live audiences. His last bout was at Club Neptune in Fort Myers, Florida. He defeated a Tough Man champion by decision. Both fights would later be described in his book Virgin Gloves. Below is his only boxing match caught on video. It was a welterweight bout in Sarasota, Florida.

2003 - Moved to Orlando, FL where he officially started his writing career. He joined a journal group and used social media to accumulate over nine thousand contacts. There he began ambitiously writing and publishing books.

2004 - His debut novel Virgin Gloves became the first ever story in history written about a gay prizefighter. It was reviewed in the New Haven Advocate, Ring Magazine and Boxing Digest. He did several book signings while also appearing on Michigan Rock radio and the Frank DeCaro show.

2004 - While working at Books-a-Million he witnessed a number of dishonest and abusive actions by the general manager. Writing a letter to the CEO, signed by the store's workers, put an end to the abuses as the crooked manager was demoted and sent to another store for retraining. It was later learned that she had been stealing and was fired by the company.

2005 - His second book Backyard Empire was the first ever novel in history written about backyard wrestling. It was reviewed by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Blogcritics.org. He did several book signings at wrestling shows in the Orlando area. The book would go on to inspire an episode of the hit animated TV show South Park. The clip below is from a wrestling TV show where he described his introduction to backyard wrestling.

2005 - His third book Sevlow was published by PublishAmerica. Sevlow was part of a three book series about the HAWKS Foundation, the military prep team he lead in his teen years. The other two books were Almost Columbine (2006) and Before they were HAWKS (2007).

2005 - As a promotional gimmick he did a nude photo shoot for Play Girl Magazine. They liked the images but needed higher resolution. Months later Play Girl offered a one time contract for a second shoot but by then he was too busy and no longer interested in the project.

2006 - Started a YouTube page that would eventually contain hundreds of videos about backyard wrestling, bmx racing, mountain biking, cyclocross and clips from his martial arts movies. His videos have over 345,000 views. The page can be viewed here.

2007 - His seventh book Anarchy Bell was a collection of dark poetry. It contained multiple poems that won peer reviewed awards.

2007 - Moved to Manomet, MA where he lived by Cape Cod Bay and wrote the political novel Purple State. The culmination of eight years studying politics, history and economics, he considered this book to be his Masters Thesis on modern American elections.

2008 - Started mountain bike racing by winning beginner medals in the Root 66 Race Series and the NECS race series. He competed in Cross Country, Downhill and Super-D races all across New England as a member of Peterson's Race Team. He did volunteer work with the New England Mountain Bike Association (NEMBA) while writing articles for NEMBA Singletracks and Dirt Rag magazine. Racing alongside his brother Kevin they became known as the Bog Dogs as recapped in the video below.

2010 - Returning to Florida he jumped into the sport of BMX Racing. His once popular mountain bike blog converted into USABMXNEWS.com which covered racing news for the entire state. He hosted the track websites for Sarasota, Riverview and Naples while also holding the position of Secretary at Charlotte BMX for three years. Completing 74 races, he won the Rookie 30+ State Championship and held a position on the Better Recognize race team. He also hosted a six episode webseries called Unleashed TV that was funded by Kickstarter. Finally, he was nominated to the Board of the Sunshine State Association (SSA) but turned down the position.

2013 - Joined the Cafe Philo discussion group in Englewood, FL where for five years he took part in conversations about historical and modern events. On many occasions he lead the group on topics like social evolution and freedom of information. In the past he was also a member of The Merry Philosophers group in Orlando, FL.

2013 - Switching over to the sport of running he took part in 18 recreational races in Southwest Florida. He won his age group in the Zoomers Race Series and competed in the Florida 10k State Championships. He also wrote several stories for the Zoomers Newsletter, The Finish Line.

2014 - Returning to mountain biking he took on the Florida race series with help from his sponsors Bicycles International, 661 and Lushka Reconstruction. While competing in cross country and endurance MTB races he also threw down at half a dozen cyclocross events. He was a board member of the Sarasota County Off Road Riders (SCORR) trail building group and helped promote their annual event Piggy's Revenge.

2015 - His eighth book Twisted Trails is a collection of mountain bike stories and remains by far the most popular thing he has ever written. It was reviewed by Reader's Favorite, Kirkus and Singletracks.com. He followed up with a second book on the same subject titled Twisted Trails: Least of the Beast (2016). He traveled around Florida selling copies of both books while attending mountain bike events.

2017 - On May 1st his adopted father passed away from liver failure. Father and son ended their tumultuous relationship on good terms. This also signaled the end of his writing career. No longer feeling the need to prove his worth, there was nothing left to write about.

2017 - Completing a lifetime goal Alex and his wife crossed America in an SUV driving 7,500 miles while stopping in 20 states. They drove to the top of Pikes Pike, visited Rocky Mountain National Park and witnessed Old Faithful in Yellowstone. They camped, went caving, hiking and watched their first rodeo. They experienced a new appreciation for this incredible country.

2019 - To honor his family heritage he competed in the Sarasota Highland Games. This Scottish strength competition represented a lifetime culmination of resistance training. That along with a coaching/training program developed by former IFBB Pro Ben Pakulski developed him from an 180 man into a 224 pound beast. He took 7th place in his age group.

2019 - After a lifetime of loving movies and even filming a few, Alex started indirect-investing in independent films. He bought shares of Legion M, a fan owned entertainment company based in Los Angeles. He has taken another step by directly financing two films. They are William Shatner: You can call me Bill and The Last Kumite. Alex's name is listed in the credits of both movies.

2020 - For five and half years Alex worked for an airport shuttle company where he regularly shared stories with his customers during long drives. He drove over 2,000 travelers and never missed a flight. As Covid frightened drivers to quit and customers to stop traveling, Alex became the sole employee. He survived a mild Covid infection and stayed with the company until it closed.

2021 - Alex and his wife sold their house in Englewood, Florida and moved to Sanford, Florida. They celebrated their 20th anniversary of being together but broke up shortly after. They continue to be friends.

2024 - Alex currently lives in Massachusetts with his girlfriend Iris where they are competitive athletes in the World Axe Throwing League. Their team is called "The League of Evil Axes."