𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀
I was born in a small town in a family with scarce resources. Me, my two brothers and my mother lived in the house of a woman with a large family; my mother was a domestic worker at this house, and they helped us with shelter, food and studies. We children helped our mother with the housework.
We lived in this house until high school and then I migrated to Sucre, the capital of Bolivia, without knowing where I was going to live. I wanted to continue studying and training professionally, so I decided to go to the city with the help of school friends. They housed me for a while at their home until I could find work to afford my expenses.
𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜
I got to know of badminton in the last year of university through a teacher, who invited me to try this new sport. I’d always been an athlete from my school days in several sports (basketball, futsal, football, volleyball). Finishing university, I focussed on preparing myself as a badminton player, and tried to know more about it. At the same time I started training as a coach, working with junior athletes in the city of Sucre. Badminton changed my life; it taught me to fight for what one wants; it taught me to have many objectives and fulfil the goals I have, and to have discipline first and foremost.
I’m now a Level 1 coach and Shuttle Time Teacher and Tutor, apart from being a national athlete. I’ve participated in national and international tournaments. My most memorable events were the Bolivarian tournaments in Santa Marta – Colombia, Sudamericano Lima 2020, Sudamericano Bolivia 2018, Panamerican Games 2019, Bolivarian Valledupar – Colombia 2022.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀
A lot of passion, 100 per cent dedication because I like to teach other people who have the same passion and love for sport. It is a disciplined, ceremonious and fast sport, and different from other sports.
𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆
Every time I talk about my experiences I try to motivate children and to get them away from dangerous habits. Through Shuttle Time we try to reach more teachers in the city and provinces. The biggest lesson I learned from Shuttle Time is that even without materials such as rackets or shuttlecocks, one has to be able to improvise and create our own
