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Some Muay Thai pads with my brother @thebalancedbartender_ 🥊
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Fun fact: we both started boxing back in 2016 before life had other crazy plans for me… Happy to see that we both stuck with it and are still out here grindin’. 💪🏼
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Comment, or DM to start your training with me. Boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai or Gen Fitness S&C. 👊🏼💥
#boulevardfitness #chanoboxing #sandiegoboxing #sandiegomuaythai

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🧙‍♂️🔮 nothing left to ponder. It’s Friday.

#sandiegoeats #sandiegobars #cocktails

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TOMORROW’S MENU!!!

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I just wanna party with our friends forever!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Photos by @ladyhanners
Venue: the best bar in SD @originalswanbar

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LONG WEEKEND SPECIAL!
@wildisthewindsupperclub taking over the kitchen on a bonus Sunday.
They’ll be slinging a smorgasbord of delicious plant based goodies for all the swans on the pond.

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SOLD OUT!!!

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A special Thursday night treat!!
Pete and Sway behind the bar all night!

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Drop your fav fih in the comments
#fish #diving #engineeringlife

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fish are friends, not food 🐟

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Catalina on film

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Losing a friend is never easy…

Everyone in these pictures are the family I found in friends when it felt like we didn’t have any

We partied together, worked together, laughed, cried and did whatever together

Chris loved elephants, was built like an elephant who’d throw hands for his people and was always the first one there to pick us up when we were down, physically and emotionally

He made us feel safe… For me he always made me feel safe in that whatever I aimed for he had my back… and all he wanted from me is to see me fly and do my thang playa!

He’d genuinely listen, speak life into me and then look me dead in the eye to deliver a surprising level of wisdom

He’s actually a big reason why I decided to pursue a career outside the bar industry, travel and reach for more

Whenever he’d sense any doubt or hesitation in my mind, in his own Valdeezy way he’d say some variation of…

“If anyone of us can do it, it’s you”
“you got something special in you”
“don’t let nobody make you believe some stupid 💩 about yourself”

Hearing that from one of the most talented, charismatic, hard working and genuine people that was proud to call me a friend, meant the world to me

I could never thank him enough for those moments… Damn I wish I was there to say those things right back to him when he needed it the most…

The past 2 weeks have been a roller coaster of emotions including anger in the fact that he’s gone, that he took himself and that I didn’t put in the effort to connect with him over the past 2 years that I should have

I let my fears & anxiety around feeling behind in life keep me from doing what I needed to most. Which is lean into my friends that have been there all along

But maybe this was his final “joke”

To put life on pause and bring us back together to remind us of who we are, how far we’ve come and what he always believed we could become

He might be gone from this place but his spirit lives on. His loud ass voice echo’s in my head with hope and goofy jokes 😂🙌

I miss you Boi, I’m thankful for the good fortune of having you as one of my best friends and I promise, I’ll become everything you knew I could

#Valdeezy
#CrispyChriiih
#CNasty
#Boi

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6-9PM

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