Life in New-York-Ci-ty BABY WOOOO!!!!: Sparring

Life in New-York-Ci-ty BABY WOOOO!!!!: Sparring: One thing I've always wanted to do since Costa Rica and started to do ever since I got to New York is "sparring". To save up the time to e...

Sparring

One thing I've always wanted to do since Costa Rica and started to do ever since I got to New York is "sparring".

To save up the time to explain what is it, here is a small article on Wikipedia about the subject...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparring

Prince, Nando, Jose & Jed

Anyways, most of the time i had after school I spent it back at home. A video-game paradise, but ever since I met Jed, (the man kneeling at the right of the picture) I have kept myself busy shaping my mind and body through this sport. We started off as a duet spar and since then we have brought in more friends to spar with us.

It is fun, but also painful. Oblivious to the obvious, we do get bruises and cuts. Of course we are not completley unexperienced at sparring. All of us have had previous training on a martial art. I know a little Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing and Wing Chun, wheras Jed knows Jujitsu.

Here is a video I would like to show you all for those who still don't know what it is, to get the idea.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObIEPjbiw2M

We avoid head contact and any other vital areas out the vest. The sparring experience may be trimmed a little out of reality, but hey, we are college students and need our sanity for the coming midterms. Nevertheless, the experience is quite amusing.

I came here to NY in hopes with God to find what I like to do. Indeed I have found my sport. :)

OH! and by the way! Happy Thanksgiving! :D

Dad & Son

         Where has the Dad and Son time gone to? Surely I am limited to state only a mere opinion that those days are almost gone. With work, studies, part-time, missions, etc... I believe men has begun to lose great part of their contacts with their children. I myself have lived a life in which the majority of the time my parents were absent. But I don't blame them. I understood at my teenage time that they worked up to late night just for me and my siblings.

        Though there were few times I actually spent with my father, I can tell it was more than awesome even though in most cases there was not much to talk about.

          As I was walking my way home in Brooklyn, I saw an adult male with a young boy in his father's shoulder. I literally fell into a state of mind from which I say that what I witnessed was something beautiful, and it is something we should not forget when we become parents. NYC has taught me one more thing. Despite work and life goals, non is much more valuable than that time you spend with your children.