PizDoff
8/05/2011 1:35pm,
‘Padrino’ uses martial arts to keep young people off the streets
Bail bondsman Howard Scott “Padrino” Puig runs a non-profit organization teaching mixed martial arts to troubled young people.
http://i.imgur.com/ijQOR.jpg
For about two months, Francisco Diaz traveled the streets of Hialeah on a bike, looking for a spot to sleep.
Diaz, 22, called the benches and sidewalks home after he was kicked out of his house because of problems with drugs and alcohol.
“My bad choices and involvement led me to drugs,” said Diaz, whose troubles with illegal substances also complicated a disease he has been diagnosed with, Lupus.
Fortunately for Diaz, a family member helped him find a place where he would learn self control: Padrino’s MMA Fight Team gym, a non-profit organization dedicated to taking troubled men and women off the streets and putting them in a gym to learn mixed martial arts.
Full article at link: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/04/2345082/padrino-uses-martial-arts-to-keep.html
Nice story, I think BJ Penn training partner Troy Mandaloniz or another Hawaiian mixed martial artist also had a story like this.
Bail bondsman Howard Scott “Padrino” Puig runs a non-profit organization teaching mixed martial arts to troubled young people.
http://i.imgur.com/ijQOR.jpg
For about two months, Francisco Diaz traveled the streets of Hialeah on a bike, looking for a spot to sleep.
Diaz, 22, called the benches and sidewalks home after he was kicked out of his house because of problems with drugs and alcohol.
“My bad choices and involvement led me to drugs,” said Diaz, whose troubles with illegal substances also complicated a disease he has been diagnosed with, Lupus.
Fortunately for Diaz, a family member helped him find a place where he would learn self control: Padrino’s MMA Fight Team gym, a non-profit organization dedicated to taking troubled men and women off the streets and putting them in a gym to learn mixed martial arts.
Full article at link: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/04/2345082/padrino-uses-martial-arts-to-keep.html
Nice story, I think BJ Penn training partner Troy Mandaloniz or another Hawaiian mixed martial artist also had a story like this.