fight boys
You think you know!! Ok, kinda. The draw for any 40 -somthing -year old woman is obvious. But that’s not the reason I started shooting fights and ‘fight boys’!!
Javier hooked up the Striker opprotunity. The Javier blog to come. Before the fight and subsequent shoots, all I knew about MMA/cage fighting was it’s sweaty, kinda homo-erotic, and the barberic beatdowns had a distubing draw. The sort of thing you can’t take your eyes off no matter how horrifying and disgusting it gets; it is a deep, primal urge to watch. . A year prior I joined a fitness class that encorporated the MMA/fight workout. Neil Amos has a gym downtown, Stockton KO, and there I slimmed down, experienced alot of pain and observed a whole different subculture of America.
This was an opprotunity to work on my overall goal of experiencing as many types of photography opprotunities as possible. Shooting from an airplaine, under water and high speed are on my list of possibilities.
The first fightfroze me! Up until that point I had seen a little bit of grappling in the gym. But this was serious!! I was shocked and paralyzed. It took me a few moments to move and start shooting. But once I started and got a peek at the product; I was hooked. The energy of the crowd and the intense action in the cage was infectious.
My nature is to ask questions. I understand some people think I’m weird and nosey but I can not help the urge to learn about those I come in contact with!! I have been known to start a conversation with old men on the BART train or kids in line at Target. I’m an ethnic study minor so it’s in my training and blood- I’m not completly weird. Wanting to know what drives people and what brings them to this time and place is sort of a compulsion I constantly have to keep a lid on. 
Well in this instance I hav done pretty good at keeping my nosey mouth shut. However, I hear a little about the fighter and I have made some observations about these individuals. Ont thing I have come to admire , aside from the obvious, is thier ability to follow what makes them happy. 
The majority of these fighters and trainiers are not getting rich. Like all other pro sports a small percentage of particitpants make the large prize dollars. These boys are fighting, enduring hours of training and sacrificing for the pride and glory of a win. The dedication and passion that these boys posess is what I’ve come to admire.
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