00:09My name is Alexander Hernandez,
00:12I work as a social promoter in the EEPRON,
00:15in the Institute for the Protection of the Niets and the Juventus.
00:19My relationship with boxing,
00:21for me, it's my style of boxing.
00:24And my name, as a professional boxer, is Máquina.
00:32I grew up in several places in Bogotá,
00:35in situations of my family.
00:39I started living in Soacha,
00:43a piece of my childhood in Soacha,
00:46and my biggest dream when I was a child
00:48was to be the one in the neighborhood,
00:50the one in the neighborhood,
00:52because my friends and some of my family also were like that.
00:55I really liked the hurt,
00:58because that's part of my past,
01:01but with that I supported myself
01:03from my 13 years old.
01:04At 14 or 15 years old,
01:06I had my arms and I liked to rob
01:10in drogue, in supermarkets.
01:13Some of the things that marked me in my life
01:14were when I was a superman.
01:18I've always been a fighter.
01:20I liked to be a fighter in the street,
01:22in the street,
01:23without gloves.
01:25So,
01:25at some point of my life,
01:27I was very caught
01:28and a man told me that I was going to be
01:30and I said,
01:31I said, well,
01:32that I was going to be,
01:33if I was going to be in the neighborhood,
01:34I was going to be in the neighborhood,
01:36and I said, well,
01:37let's go, let's go.
01:37I was going to be more than 10 years old,
01:40and out ofoma,
01:41I put threejudicial places,
01:43one here,
01:44another here,
01:46and one here,
01:47next to the column.
01:49And,
01:49because of that,
01:49they spread me a chest of heart.
01:55I didn't think I was going to know the cedula, but I didn't know the cedula, but I didn't know
01:59the cedula.
02:00And I'm going to die.
02:02So I went to the ejército, and I started to move a lot of things in my life.
02:07I had to train, to do very strong exercises, to walk a lot.
02:12So I always said, máquina, máquina, máquina.
02:14And that inspired me to do the best of me.
02:17And when I was tired, I didn't want to move my body.
02:21But the mind, yes.
02:28After I got back to the ejército, I went to the park, because I always liked the hip-hop, the
02:33rap.
02:35And in that event, they told me that the Edipron gave me the opportunity to study and work.
02:44And then, I was an expert in boxing.
02:48And then I got to work.
02:50And then I got to be involved in boxing.
02:51And then we started to do boxing with young men from all the localities.
02:56With young men in dynamic, with restorative justice.
03:01With young men with high consumption.
03:03With young men with vegans.
03:05With young men with problems in their homes.
03:07With young men with abuse.
03:11and we started to understand that boxing was a tool of social transformation and social dignity.
03:28Before, the sport that was played in Edipron,
03:33about 20 or 15 years ago,
03:36was the sport that taught the tutor,
03:38the discipline, the convivencia.
03:41It was simply a ball placed on a bench,
03:45a cotejo,
03:46but it evolved and Edipron has evolved.
03:51It has seen the concept of the sport,
03:53to where it reaches the sport in the youth process,
03:56to the point that it has recognized
03:59that there are important sports that are important
04:02to take adelante processes.
04:05One of them,
04:06logically, it is the boxing.
04:09They realize that the boxing makes something very deep
04:14in the person, in the person.
04:23My name is Andrés Felipe Fuentes Cristiano,
04:26I have 27 years old.
04:28My life in Edipron
04:30was in a street process.
04:34I was 10 years old in Edipron
04:37and when I ended up with Edipron
04:41and Edipron
04:42opened their doors
04:42to complete a life process.
04:47Thanks to the teachers
04:47and excellent colleagues,
04:50I have been able to transform my life
04:52in the street dynamics,
04:57in the family,
04:58in drug addiction.
04:59thanks to God,
05:01the process has been advanced.
05:03I wish to be a professional boxer
05:06thanks to the talent of the teachers.
05:19We have been able to learn
05:26how to build a boxing game
05:29to 35 years old.
05:29to do a lot of things
05:32which is a lot of things
05:33that are being accomplished.
05:37professional and they are. They are guys who already know
05:42to train themselves and to train other people, they are personal trainers.
05:48I have been manager, trainer, professional, professional,
05:53professional, amateur and international champion.
05:57And I said, I've done everything in boxing, so I said,
06:02because as I have done the amateur, I also want to try the professional.
06:09And also because the boxing me changed my life.
06:13Many of the things that I haven't done before,
06:17and the things that I've done before, I don't do it
06:21because of the discipline that I have done in boxing.
06:23Aparte that he has to develop his values, his soft skills,
06:27he also has to develop the responsibility of the discipline,
06:31but he also has to develop his spiritual part
06:35so that there is a balance,
06:38so that we can truly get warriors,
06:42warriors that need to be in those streets of Bogotá.
06:48Also, this work is my way to eat,
06:52this work is my style of life, it is my day.
06:54So, I see a young man and I feel a lot of empathy
06:59because there are young men who don't even have to eat for lunch,
07:03for lunch, they don't even have to stay.
07:07And the EIPREN is like a salvavidas,
07:10a man of friends that gives me the opportunity,
07:14as they gave me, to start again.
07:23My favorite part of boxing is to know that I can always find a better version of myself.
07:32Today I play with someone, but that in three months or six months
07:39I will find someone stronger, but that I will be mentally, physically
07:46and spiritually stronger for another battle and another better battle.
07:50That there is always a better version of one in life and in everything.
08:01Let's get started.
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