GOOD OLD TIMES!!!!WITH THE CREW,YOU'LL SEE FAMILIAR FACES NOW WELL KNOWN CHAMPIONS,THIS IS BACK IN THE DAY WHEN WE DID IT FOR THE LOVE OF FIGHTING NOT FOR THE FAME OR MONEY,NO PAYCHECK'S OR BIG SPONSOR,WE WHERE LUCKY TO GET A 50 CENT'S MEDAL'S AND WE ALL HAD TO WAKE UP NEXT FOLLOWING DAY INJURE OR NOT JUST TO WORK IN OUR REGULAR JOB'S, WE WHERE JUST ADRENALINE JUNKYS WHO DID IT FOR THE LOVE OF JUST FIGHTING,THE FIRST BAMA FIGHT NIGHT WAS IN THE EARLY 90's INSIDE THE BAMA-PIMA SCHOOL COVERING THE WINDOWS WITH NEWS PAPER TRYING TO AVOID GETTING IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW, I DO REMEMBER BECAUSE THAT NIGHT I LOSS THE COMPETITION BY POINTS,ALSO MATT SERRA, NICK SERRA AND DAVID WOMACK, COMPETE THAT NIGHT MY PRESENT BOSS AND FRIEND JONAS NUNEZ JR.WAS PRESENT THAT NIGHT AS AN ANNOUNCER YEARS LATER THE “BAMA†COMPETITIONS WHERE HELD IN SOUTH PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL WHERE THE LITTLE PROFIT THAT BAMA MADE WAS TO KEEP THE SCHOOL OPEN I REMEMBER DAN MIRAGLIOTTA MY INSTRUCTOR AND FRIEND WORKING EXTRA HOUR IN HIS REGULAR JOB IN ORDER TO KEEP THE SCHOOL OPEN, DAN NEVER CARE ABOUT THE MONEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THE SPORT, I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME MEETING DAN TROUGH MY INSTRUCTOR AT THAT TIME OF DOCE PARES ARNULFO “ DONG†CUESTAS, WHO WAS MOVING BACK TO JERSEY CITY AND BECAUSE OF MY WORKING SCHEDULE I COULD NOT TRAVEL ALL THE TIME TO QUEEN’S NY TO CONTINUE MY TRAINING IN SIPALKI-DO WITH MY INSTRUCTOR JOSE LUIS CADEMARTORI OR CONTINUE TRAINING IN DOCE PARES, DAN INVITE ME TO HIS CLASS, WELL NEXT FOLLOWING DAY I SHOW UP TO THE CLASS THEY PUT ME FIGHTING WITH BIG GREG WHO WAS ALMOST 320 LBS,AND I WAS BARELY 145 SOAK IN WET, LOL WELL BIG GREG WAS STRONG LIKE A BULL PLUS HEAVY AND I WAS TINNY AND FAST SO AFTER ALMOST 10 MINUTES HE GOT ME IN AN ANGLE LOCK HE ALMOST POP MY ANGLE , DAN ASK ME … I DON'T THINK YOU WILL JOIN, RIGHT? WHAT I REPLY! HELL YEAHH!!! NOW I HAVE THE MOTIVATION WELL I GOT MY REVENGE MONTH’S LATER, BIG GREG AND I BECOME GOOD FRIENDS. DAN MIRAGLIOTA (BAMA FIGHT NIGHT) IN NEW JERSEY AND LOUIS NEGLIA AND RAY LONGO IN "VENGEANCE AT THE VANDERBILT" THEY WHERE THE ONCE WHO OPEN THE DOOR'S FOR THE LOCAL FIGHTER’S. IN THOSE YEAR WAS NO SUCH A THING LIKE MMA WE WHERE JUST FIGHTER'S NO TITLES OR DEFINITION OF THE STYLE JUST A GROUP OF MARTIAL ARTIST MOSTLY BLACK BELT'S FROM DIFFERENT STYLE GETTING TOGETHER JUST TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL BLENDING KNOWLEDGE BEING TEACHER IN STUDENTS AT THE SAME TIME , I REMEMBER GUYS FROM BOXING, JUDO, JUJITSU, TAE KWON DO,KEMPO, KICKBOXING, WRESTLING, GRECO ROMAN, JEET KUNE DO, SHOTOKAN , KIOKUSHINKAIKAI, MUAY THAI , ETC, WAS THE GROUP HOW BAMA STARTER EVERY BODY HELPING EACH OTHER AND DAN NEVER BEING AFRAID TO SHOW WHAT HE KNEW, NOW AFTER THE UFC AND MOVIES LIKE FIGHT CLUB EVERY BODY WANTS TO BE A FIGHTER BECAUSE IS THE COOL THING TO BE……. MARTIAL ARTS WAS WHAT A TOOK ME OUT OF THE STREETS, NO MORE STREET BRAWL OR DOING THE WRONG THING IT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE I’M NOT PROUD OF IT, SPECIALLY AT 12 YRS OLD AND BEING RACE IN A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE CRIME AND DRUGS WAS JUST A COMMON THING OF EVERY DAY LIFE THE DOJO WAS A PLACE WHERE I LEARN DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY AND HONOR, LIKE MY FIRST INSTRUCTOR CHANGE MY LIFE NOW TRYING TO DO SAME THING IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE LIFE OF THE NEW GENERATIONS. THE DOJO IS A PLACE WHERE MY FRUSTRATION AND STRESS GET RELIEF,WHERE I FOUNDED BALANCE IN MY LIFE WHAT HELP ME TO SHARP MY SENSES AND MIND A PLACE WHERE I CAN CALL HOME EVEN FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE WHEN I HIT ROCK BOTTOM, MY MARTIAL ARTS FAMILY WAS THERE FOR ME GIVING ME THE STRENGTH TO GET BACK ON MY FEET I USE TO BE A GYM RAT LIVING AND TEACHING IN THE DOJO I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS EVERYDAY IN ORDER TO OVERCOME ANY ADVERSITY IN LIFE SPECIALLY WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH AND SOMETIME THE TEMPTATION OF JUST DOING THE WRONG THING IS ALWAYS THERE BUT I'M ALWAYS AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCES AND HOW THINGS CAN AFFECT MY LIFE OR THE LIFE OF OTHERS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY WITHOUT YOU NOT REALIZING THAT IS WHY!! I DO REALLY BELIEVE IN KARMA, I'M LUCKY TO HAVE REALLY GOOD FRIEND'S........AS A MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTOR WE NEVER STOP LEARNING BECAUSE IS A LIFE TIME JOURNEY …… HERE IS A VIDEO FROM THOSE DAYS, I WAS THE CORNER MAN COACHING FOR FEW OF THE FIGHTER FROM THIS VIDEO …GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!------------------------------------------------- --------- GRAPHIC ART COLLAGE CREATED BY "CHINO"
.. ---2008 New Years ---..
.. ----My Karate kids Aisha & Johny's Wedding--..
.. ---The Water Front and The Latin Festival 2007--- ..
