So, very young I was, I was studying taekwondo. Like, six, seven. I wasn't that good. But then I was at thirteen, fourteen, and then I got back into it. And I got good at it.

At that point in time, Mexico was a very, they had a lot of representation in the Olympics with taekwondo. So, where I was working out at that gym had produced, a couple, several people who had won several medals at Los Panamericanos, I think it was called. Like, it's like the qualifications for the Olympics.

So the teacher had told me, like, I want you to stop coming to the regular classes. You need to start training with the other, athletes. The ones they are, like going to los Paraolimpicos, digo, the Pan Americans. And unfortunately, yes, I started doing it, but just I didn't have the money to continue going.

And now I think about it and reflect. If I had asked the teacher, it's like, hey dude, I don't have the money. I think he would have let me, but I just stopped going.

I stopped going, and then I, I just, I wish I would have tried it harder. Yes, I wish I had like just kept going with that because even just to get somewhere, you know, like just to be able to just put like one, two, three, four years of your life just to focus on that and then see how far you can take it.

And just, no, I didn't. I just went to work. Yeah.

Edwardo Garcia

Born November 11th, 1980, in Laredo, Texas