I am still having mixed feelings on this because I grew up with such great respect for bullfighters. But now they are convincing me somewhat differently, even though I still respect it. Bullfighting is a deeply controversial spectacle that is called a "fine art" by its supporters and a "blood sport" by its critics. I believe it will change.
Paso Doble Anyone? - The Moment of Truth
In Haro, a small city in Spain. Eighteen year old (2001) Julian Lopez Escobar (El Juli) inches slowly, carefully towards the bull, unmindful of his chest covered with blood from letting the bull get too close as it goes by.
The boy matador’s face is filled with tenderness as though approaching a child who has hidden under a table in tears: gentle, coaxing, head tilted to one side. The bull is heaving for breath and drops its head in a gesture that appears to say: I understand. Proceed. El Juli draws back his sword and calls one last time, “VENGA, TORO!”
The bull charges, and the young matador strikes faster than a cobra — there is a flash of gold, and then he spins away graceful as a ballet dancer and opens his arms to his fans. His sword is buried in the back of the bull’s neck down into its heart. The bull buckles into the ground slowly in death.
Cheers, the waving of handkerchiefs (symbolizing the audience’s respect,) the cascade of flowers (expressions of their love), the awarding of the bull’s ears to the smiling matador (to honor the boy’s excellence.) Finally El Juli is carried in triumph from the bullring on the shoulders of the very strongest men of Haro, lifted like a true hero.
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Paso Doble Anyone? - The Moment of Truth
In Haro, a small city in Spain. Eighteen year old (2001) Julian Lopez Escobar (El Juli) inches slowly, carefully towards the bull, unmindful of his chest covered with blood from letting the bull get too close as it goes by.
The bull charges, and the young matador strikes faster than a cobra — there is a flash of gold, and then he spins away graceful as a ballet dancer and opens his arms to his fans. His sword is buried in the back of the bull’s neck down into its heart. The bull buckles into the ground slowly in death.
Cheers, the waving of handkerchiefs (symbolizing the audience’s respect,) the cascade of flowers (expressions of their love), the awarding of the bull’s ears to the smiling matador (to honor the boy’s excellence.) Finally El Juli is carried in triumph from the bullring on the shoulders of the very strongest men of Haro, lifted like a true hero.
"Every person that got to where they are,
had to begin from where they were."
had to begin from where they were."
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| Have a happy dancing day. |
just like themselves on the Island of Oahu.
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