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from any of the other students. was awesome.
But you guys worked together too? After the Army did you continue training?

Yes and that didn’t change I was able to work but In 1979 I had moved to the Republic of Uruguay
not to train in the school at all and that broke out neighbors and stay there for almost a year I
my heart, I remember going to see the class and taught Taekwondo to the local people out of fan
begged him to let get back and he will walked not knowing that teaching was going to become
me out of the school, and when Gran Master was my passion; as time progress I started to com-
there he just didn’t even see me at all, I felt mi- pete in local clubs the competitions weren’t as
serable. big as today, the only difference were is that we
never used to use any protection equipment like
I did insist three times a week for almost a year today we use to fight pretty hard back in those
if not a year until finally he took me back and days.
both of them gave me a final warning I didn’t get
in trouble again, So after my Black Belt gradua- The economy wasn’t good in Uruguay in those
tion I desired to join the Navy School, but I was days so I decided to move to Brazil, to Rio de
rejected due to my flat feet, so right away I tur- Janeiro in Barra Da Tijuca, beautiful place that
ned around went right away to the Army School is, years after I left Brazil I had learned that was
and try to join in. I had passed the flat feet test the home of the Famous Grace Family, I think
the first time, I must admit that I cheated a little If I would of come across them I would have
bit, when I walked on the floor without shoes I affiliated my self with them and now my history
shifted my body weight to the outside creating a would have being totally different, but it wasn’t
foot print with a good arch in it, that was the test my opportunity then, my opportunity came years
back then, so I joined the Army School. after in Tarzana, California where I had starting
to learn BJJ with the Master Jean Jacques Ma-
In the Army what did you do? chado a fantastic teacher with a huge reputation
under his belt and thereafter with the BJJ Ins-
I was doing a military career in Buenos Aires in tructor Alberto Crane and Romulo Barral great
the Suboficial Sargento Cabral Military School competitors and teachers as well.
and joined the Infantry Force.
So what make you move so much from one
I had spend there about Five years, it was fun country to another?
and I had learned a lot, I did commando work,
parachuting courses, Combat training with Spe- I had dreams big dreams, I wanted to achieved
cial Forces, etc , everything that an Infantry Sol- things in the Martial Arts I didn’t know what but
dier will do, I fought one year in the field in a I was ready to pay the price for it!
place called Tucuman in the years of conflict in
Argentina about 1975, and got out of the army as While in Brazil I trained TKD with a Peruvian
sergeant in the Cobra Commando in 1978. friend of mind and competed again the Capoeira
guys few times, there style was very close to the
In about 1973-1974 I got into Taekwondo ITF KAPU I trained years prior so I liked it and did
and trained on my days off from the Army at a pretty good against them and have a lot of fun
school on the city of Hurlingham, in the Provin- as well. In 1980 I had moved to Peru were I met
ce of Buenos Aires, mean while inside the batta- Master Lee in Lima, Peru, I trained with them for
lion I will train on my own with other guys. I met a while until I moved to USA in 1981, where then
the Founder of Taekwondo General Choi in an I joined Master Nam Wuang Kim in Hollywood
exhibition on the Luna Park in Buenos Aires it California, he was a WTF Master, he took me

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