Val's fighting name is Sumé. Like many foam fighters his story of his involvement in hard hitting boffers starts in a familiar way. It took Sumé a few years of prompting before he finally joined the foam fighting group about 9 years ago. "I came out here and was like, oh, this is actually pretty fun!" Sumé says. He not only embraced the fighting but other parts of the game as well "I just really love making costumes."
But here Sumé's foam fighting testimony veers from the familiar and becomes inspirational "Six years ago, I was really bad in to drugs...". The foam fighting group gave him a way to escape his old life
"And so I actually came out here to get away from that." says Sumé "To get away from all the drugs and all the people I used to hangout with." Sumé is quick to point to his involvement in the club as a key factor in his ability to change his life "This actually is the one thing that is keeping me sober. And keeping me on my sober path...".
This video is where I learned about Sumé's story:
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