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Sep 15 2013

LIV Catwalk – Second edition

Saturday. I woke up at 8:30 and hurried to get dressed since I was supposed to meet with someone. When we finished our business together I had some caffeine and headed off to the gym.

The training went well. For the first time in 3 years I did deadlifts again. I bought some lifting hooks since my left hand is still messed up but the metal thingy kept bending. In the end, actually didn’t feel like I was exhorting myself a lot. I did more exercises than I usually did and felt like I could’ve on but I figured it’s not much use to go overboard either since I won’t get much rest tonight due to the catwalk I’m scheduled to do with Vicino models at LIV in Playa del Carmen.

In the afternoon I went to get a haircut. Afterwards I tried a new Brazilian restaurant that opened nearby which serves unlimited cuts of meat. Of course I stuffed myself to the point of exploding.

By 10 pm I was off to LIV. My former neighbor Ernesto also joined along. Since the check engine light turned on in my car we used his instead. The catwalk was scheduled at 1 but as usual things got delayed and we didn’t go out until 2:20 am. It was a lot of fun. It seemed there were either more women than men at the club or they just make a lot more noise. It’s a nice feeling having the whole club screaming for you, I could get used to it 🙂

We went out three times and the final round I considered doing a back flip but then again without shoes on a wooden floor in a very small space the risk of something going wrong it a bit higher than usual and if  something does go wrong then the whole club bears witness so I figured I’ll get some practice jumps in next time while the club is still empty. It fills up really late. There wasn’t a soul when we arrived at 11:30 and by 2 it was quite full.

After finishing the catwalk I was so tired everything appeared blurry and since I still had to drive an hour to get back I figured the after party would be for the next time as well.

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Sep 14 2013

Day two at H3R photoshoot

Today we were due at the hotel at 11:30 which meant I had time to do an hour of gymnastics in the morning. I arrived 15 minutes before everyone else and alternated between practicing backtucks with full twist, roundoff back somersault with double twist, hand stands on the pommel horse, etc. My shoulder is hardly bothering me anymore, but unfortunately my hand is still quite messed up.

I picked up Ness Plé, a French-Algerian girl, who is playing my wife for the day on the way to the hotel. There we met up with another couple. They were playing our parents. Throughout the day we somehow invented a whole back-story to the photoshoot and had some good laughs. When the shoot was over we celebrated with a few tequila shots before heading back home. Although I enjoyed myself, I was glad to be done since this is the second day we spent shooting almost twelve consecutive hours.

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Sep 13 2013

Hacienda Tres Rios Photoshoot

Christian Vicino had hired me to do a couple photo shoot for the hotel Hacienda Tres Rios in the Riviera Maya. I woke up at 7 in the morning and wanted to shower but it turned out there wasn’t any water. It turns out the whole building was without water so my only option was to go to the roof and bring down a bucket of pool water. Luckily it’s rainy season so it didn’t smell like chlorine. I showered the old fashioned way.

By 10 am I made my way to the hotel, which I had visited a few months before as well when they included a free night for a shoot I did at Cancún Spa. I believe it’s owned by the same hotel chain. Unfortunately we’re in the middle of hurricane season and the first two hours we couldn’t make any photos. It wasn’t until noon that we caught a break and started shooting.

I really enjoyed working with Ness Plé and the people from Tribu Kreativa. We has a lot of laughs throughout the day. The staff at the hotel was also great, especially the chef. He was into fusion cooking and he us try yogurt turned to gel by some chemical process. It was a very odd texture, and that’s coming from someone whose eaten cockroach when I was in Thailand.

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