Why I Like Fighting

Not street or cat fighting. I am talking about the REAL DEAL: trained skilled athletes that express their "art" in a cage or ring and afterwards, even with broken noses and bloody eyes, hug each other in the name of the sport.

Trevor introduced me to the world of "fighting" and Mixed Martial Arts when we started dating. How couldn't he, being a fighter himself? It's in his personality, it's such a huge part of who he is. Let me (brag and) share with you why I feel SO protected just by knowing my hubby:

K-1 Fighting

Karate, Tae-Kwon-Do and Kick Boxing -> Full Contact Matches

6 wins, 0 losses

2 wins by tecnical knockout, 4 by decision

Boxing

4 wins, 2 losses

1 win by decision, 3 others by knockout

both losses by decision only, which means he fought all rounds without being knocked out and the loss was based on points

Grappling

Submission Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu
2 silver medals, 1 bronze medal

Tournament wins are by submission only, meaning no points counted, you win by making oponent tap out, or say "uncle"

MMA

Mixed Martial Arts, aka Ultimate Fighting

3 wins, 0 losses

1 by tecnical knockout, 2 by submission

Capoeira

Brazilian Martial Art

There are no official competitions in Capoeira, but Trevor has been a practitioner for about 6 years and attributes his success to a lot of the skills acquired in Capoeira - flexibility, balance, agility, etc.

And because bragging is best when there is PROOF, here are some cool pictures of Trevor in action.

PS- as for me, to defend myself when he's not around, why did you think I got a concealed firearms permit?! Hah!

Time Might Go By But...

True friendship stays the same!

Yesterday was the "Batizado" event of Trevor and Marco's capoeira school. Many guests came from out of town and out of state and some of them are the friends on the pictures bellow:

David, Sarah and baby Alexander. I met them when I first got here and started doing capoeira, I would tag along with them every weekend to clubs and parties and had a LOT of fun! They are so great, honest and amazing friends! Even though we don't see each other often I feel that our friendship is one of those true ones, that stands the tests of time and distance.

Mago, along with Marco Greis (Trevor's partner) pretty much started capoeira in Utah, at BYU. Six years ago Mago (who's real name is Aaron, Mago is his capoeira name) and his wife moved to Colorado and also runs a capoeira school there. Trevor and Marco recently went to Colorado for one of Mago's events and now Mago came for the local event here. He is a lot of fun and I miss his wife (she couldn't come this time) - she is beautiful and an inspiration to female capoeira players.

And these are some of our capoeira students. I used to help teach the children and am SO PROUD of them each time I see them play! The Provo Capoeira School started in 2005 and it's amazing to see the progress that all the students have made. So fun to watch!

Something fun that happened this week was the last Mom's Night Out of 2008! I was the host this time and we went to Guru's... yummie! Here we are in the middle of good eating and great conversations:

And even though I KNOW it's annoying and dangerous and frustrating to drive in the snow and to have to clean cars and all that... can you deny that it's BEAUTIFUL to see a white world around you? I simply LOVE snow!!! :) Here I am yesterday coming from my friend Emily's baby shower in Spanish Fork. It was gorgeous outside!

Did you have a great weekend too? I sure hope so! :)

Better Late Than Never.. right?

So on Sunday April 13 it was Trevor's birthday!

The big 24!

That's not a good number in Brazil, and I don't know why, but here it's no big deal so he is proud to be 24 now :)

In capoeira it is tradition to have a birthday roda, which is when the birthday person has to play EVERYBODY in the roda (circle), one by one, non-stop.

Let me tell you... that's quite exhausting! But of course my superman hubby did a great job!

Here he is during his birthday roda, on Thursday April 10:

This is what we call ginga, every other move in capoeira comes from this one.

Yes, he has his legs up on this one but, don't worry, he totally knows what he's doing!

And here is Trevor after his birthday roda, all sweaty but still having a good time.

And for you to have a better idea of what capoeira is, check out this video from his bday roda and there are aditional videos on http://www.youtube.com/user/kikaetrevor

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On Friday April 11 we had a little bday party for Trevor at our friends Desiree and Marco's house in Orem. It was more fun than expected and here are some of Trevor's friends who were able to come:

The very talented George Brown taking over the samba party

Adam & Aninha

Trevor looking psycho playing with his funny gift

Me & Aninha getting the party started

Luis & Tava

Trevor's mission companion and friend Jordan & his wife

Dallas, Trevor & Adam

Jose & his cute wife

Benton, Rachel and MY BABY!

So, there you go. The party was fun! Check out our youtube account to see Trevor blasting some samba moves. He's good. Of course, I taught him so... yeah, he's good :)

On Monday we celebrated again with his parents at Tucanos and at night we had bday cake with his family cuz it's his mom's bday on the 14th.

Needles to say, I am DONE celebrating this bday, people! hee hee

May is my month, let's see how many parties I will have (hint hint)

Hugs!