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