A Defeat

A defeat happens when you don’t reach you goal or what you want to reach. After my first big defeat I see a defeat at something horrible and something it wouldn’t happen to me. I have always been a competitive kid. When I was a little kid I always want to win because for me loosing was one of the most horrible things and something I would prevent all my life. Since my first years school I was competitive, I always try to win in little contest that put my teachers like the first to finish a puzzle, the fastest in the class, or the best drawing. I only was thinking in not to loose.

When I have 6 years almost 7years I start going to Karate, I start with little kid trainings but what I really wants is to be a great champion. I was white belt and my dream was to have my black belt and fight with the best. The color of belt indicates your experience in karate. The order is white, yellow, orange, purple, blue, green, brown, and finally black. You have something call “the grade” that is a level in the middle of each color and it represents with a black line across the belt.

After 3 months in Karate I had my first tournament, I was very anxious and happy expecting to compete with kids like me, kids that just start. When my category was going to start I look at m competitors and they were yellow and orange belt I was nervous but very anxious. I reach the final but I loose and get 2^nd place, I get my first trophy so I was happy and I feel like if I win.

After 3 years of hard training I get an opportunity to be in a karate circuit in witch the one with more points in the year will become world champion in the respective category. I win 3 years in a row and I was with the thought that I would never loose. After those 3 years I was in my road to winning the 4^th and it was near the biggest tournament in Guatemala, the one with more points. The day before the tournament I had my first 15 party so I had a good time and I was thinking that I had enough strength for the tournament.

The day of the tournament I was a little nervous but I had a lot of confidence. My first 2 fights were great, in the third one I was feeling that my legs were tired and with less strength. After 5 fights I reach the semifinal, it was against a Salvador competitor, so if I win I will reach the final and I will had been the champion again with more points. I start winning the fight but after 2 minutes I was very exhausted, I look to the point table and I was loosing, I was starting to have a feeling of desperation and anger. After 2 and a half minutes I was losing by one point, but I was very tired and I it was very difficult to resist the half a minute that was missing. I was starting to feel a great desperation to win and in the last second I put all my strength and effort to go through my rival and try to make a point, the time was over and the judges make the last cal to see if I make the point, but this time was not my turn to win, the judges doesn’t give any point. When I loose I experience a lot of emotions I felt angry, desperation, sadness and I felt that I disappoint my professor and my dad. I didn’t know what to do or how to reaction. I win third place but I don’t get the amount of points to be the world champion again.

I felt defeated. I only want to go home to train to be better because I felt I wasn’t good enough. I was scared to look to my professor and scared that he would find out that I didn’t win. I also was scared of what my dad would think, because I was used to hear from my father that he was proud that I won and the go to eat and see the fight that he recorded. I also want to grab the camera to erase the video. But when I look at my dad he hug me and tell me: good fight you are the best fighter I ever seen, the next one would be.    Since that day I learn a lot, now I know that I would not win always. That you also fall sometimes but you can choose to stay there or the get up. I learn a lot from that fight. My dad and I see the video and look what I can improve. I learn that you learn more when you loose than when you win. Now for me a defeat doesn’t exist, because I can loose but if I get up I would always be a winner

My Childhood

In childhood I live a lot of moments and have some of my best times in my life. I was a very active child; I always like to play, to run, to do sports and never sleep. I create a lot of games myself and others with my friends and cousins. I also like sports, I play any kind of sports basketball, soccer, football, baseball, kickball and all the sports you can imagine. My favorite teams always have been Barcelona in soccer and in basketball, Miami and Chicago. I remember that I liked to play sports and imagine that I was in the middle of a big stadium with a big crowd and I imagine the other team and my teams, I was the two teams but the team where I was always win, and always with a incredible and almost impossible in the last second.

When I was child I also do karate. Since I have 3 years I want to do karate but my mother is very protective and wants to wait until I was bigger. I was very anxious to do Karate because in my childhood my heroes were the Power Rangers and Jackie Chang, and finally when I have 6 years I start my karate classes. I do Karate for 10 years and I have a lot of trips for championship during my childhood. When I was in a championship I was always inspired and I think that help me a lot. In my childhood I pass a lot of time training karate, I train a lot and I have about 2 or 3 tournaments per month and I have trips like 7 times a year because of my championships. I train all days until Sundays 1 to 3 hours, and I also have friends so I have a great time training I always want to be a kind of Power Rangers, to do that kind of tricks to that kicks and fight with monsters. I has about 30 or more Power Rangers different toys, and I could to play all the day long in my room with my toy until I have my Karate class My favorite Power Ranger was the blue and the white. I wasn’t used to watch a lot of TV y prefer to play in the backyard in my Room o invent a new game.

Some of my best memories in my childhood I pass in my grandmother house from the side of my mother. My cousins live there to so I always play with my sister and my cousins. I was the biggest in the game because my older cousins don’t play with us a lot, so I play with my 2 cousins and my sister. One of our favorite games was called “The Invincible”, it was about 4 brothers that live together and have a secret identity, that secret was that everyone was a superhero and they fight villains without knowing each other and sometimes they fight each other. It was funny because ant the end it was like a novel and we take out our masks and we all say “OH! It was you!. In my childhood I was very creative and I always imagine a lot of thing and games.

I also play a lot of basketball, my Dad played basket in the national team and now he also play so it was like an example for me. Also in my childhood I admire  a lot of people, like my grandfather, my parents, Rivaldo (soccer player in Barcelona) and one of the most admirable man was Michael Jordan, so i used to play a lot to one day jump and do some points like he does. I also play basketball in my house, I imagine that I was in the team of Michael Jordan and I play and narrate the match to, and when I do the a pass I through the ball through the wall and when I receive I narrate another player.

I always call my sister to play with me because I played a lot but she always want to watch TV and I didn’t like TV so I have to play along a lot of times. Other days she was in a good humor so we invent a new games, wee play a lot of games, I sure more that you can imagine so I think in my childhood I have my best times.