The second IJA competition was last weekend. It was really cool but it was also kind of hurtful because I fell two times really hard. The competition was in a place called “Motopark” in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala. 
Online Course
The online course that I am doing is called “Valoración de futbolistas con el método AHP”, in english is “Soccer assessment with AHP method”.
It has been really cool because they teach you and show you a lot of things, they have a lot of facts that they show that look very true. I also liked that they really try to explain and for us to understand very good because it is really important.
Some of the things that I have learned are:
In spain, most of the soccer clubs get the profit from mostly merchandising, tv and the stadium.
I also learned some webpages that they say in the course that are the best to compare everything that you need in soccer because we are going to need them later.
The assessment of goods and assets is a regulated profession.
The comparison methods are based in obtaining the value of something comparing it to a similar thing.
Art
This week in art class I drew a lemon and a half. I think this drawing was one of the bests that I have done in my entire life!
Here are some pictures:
New jump!
Interview Juan Martinez
(Credits: Pasión por las motos)
¿Cómo fue que empezó todo con el motocross?
El motocross lo inicié en el 2002 con una moto que me regaló mi papá, una YZ85 modelo 1989 y con eso me di inicio al motocross.
¿Por qué elegiste motocross y no otra cosa como BMX o algo así?
Elegí motocross porque a la edad de 9 años hacía BMX y me cambié al motocross a los 12 años de edad y me gustó más porque se siente más la adrenalina.
¿Cuál ha sido uno de tus retos más grandes que has tenido?
Ser campeón latinoamericano y ser campeón nacional consecutivo acá en Guatemala.
¿Tú tienes una familia y haces motocross, cómo manejas eso?
Gracias a dios mi esposa también hacía motocross y me apoyan mucho y a mis dos hijos les gustan las motos, así que no tengo problema con eso porque me apoyan al 100%.
¿Cuál sería un consejo que le darías a un joven que quiere llegar a donde tú estás?
Que luchen por cada día ser mejores y la dedicación y la disciplina es fundamental para lograr alcanzar el éxito.
¿Cómo te miras en el futuro?
Me miro como un ejemplo para los niños en el motociclismo y como un buen coach.
¿Qué crees que necesita alguien para ser un campeón?
Primero tener la humildad para recibir consejos, la dedicación y la disciplina y ante todo el amor por el deporte.
¿Quién es tu mayor rival en la pista? Por qué?
En cada pista o carrera que estoy presente mi mayor rival soy yo mismo ya que lucho contra el nerviosismo y la perfección para que en cada vuelta que pase cometa los menos errores posibles.
¿Algunos miran el motocross como un estilo de vida, otros como un deporte y otros como algo muy peligroso, que es el motocross para ti?
Para mi el motocross es mi vida porque despierto pensando en las motos, me duermo pensando en las motos y día con día es una lucha conmigo mismo para poder ser mejor y mejor encima de una motocicleta.
¿Aparte del motocross, tienes algún otro sueño o meta?
Mi mayor meta es tener la academia y tienda de motociclismo más grande de Guatemala en el sentido de servicio y comodidad y por supuesto tener unida mi familia a las manos de nuestro creador.
Juan Martinez 115 campeón nacional de motocross 2014
Whole loop from where I practice
This is a video from the track that I practice in. I practice in Guatemala in a place that is called “Lo de Dieguez” in Fraijanes, it is Juan Martinez track.
Cooking Class
This week we started our cooking class, we made a pizza that was really delicious. Right now I will just tell you my experience and when I get the recipe I will post it here.
My Experience was really good because I really liked that my pizza tasted really good and I also liked the process. There were some parts of the process that I thought that my pizza was not going to be good because some things went wrong but then I managed to go back on track in the process.
Here are some pictures of my pizza:
Carpentry
At Acton we just finished the carpentry class. It was really cool because I learned a lot of stuff and made two things. First we did a project that everyone had to do, it was a shoe cleaning box. The second project was something that you wanted to do, I made a phone base. It was really cool because the base was perfect for my phone and it has a really cool design.
Here are some pictures:
IJA Competition
As I told you in my last post, I was going to compete in the IJA. I competed and everything went well except that I couldn’t finish the race because of an incident that happened. It was all going well and I was winning the race, but then I didn’t control my bike well in a turn and my bike went into a ditch and my bike’s chain got stuck and it was impossible for me to keep going because my bike wouldn’t move. Here are some pictures, the video from when my bike got into the ditch and a video of the track:
IJA Guatemala
On Sunday I will be competing in this year’s first enduro competition in Guatemala, it is called IJA. IJA means child, youth, and amateur. Child is were mostly everybody starts, youth is the next category and amateur is the next category. You don’t have to start in child but if you start riding a dirt bike very early it is better to start there. I am going to be competing in youth with my brother in the youth experts category. This is going to be our first time competing in an enduro competition because we were mostly training motocross. On February 1, I went to a enduro camp also that is obligatory to enter the competition, I will leave you with some pictures now.
Alvaro Monzon 
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