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Hey Padel enthusiasts welcome to Padel Smash Academy, I am Cesc and I am here with Julian and we're all about Padel! Whether you're new to the sport or an experienced player, you've come to the right place. Our goal is to provide you with the best tips & tricks, news, and weekly lessons to help you improve your game and take your Padel to the next level. So grab your Padel Racket and let's get started with all things Padel on Padel Smash Academy.
Hey, Julian Sets here and
welcome to Padel Smash Academy.
And today we're talking, I mean, this
program is very, uh, special for us.
Uh, today we have as a, as a guest,
uh, Charlie Moon, uh, four times cancer
survivor, and also an amazing padel
player, a professional padel player.
And he's, he's here to
share his life story.
Uh, Charlie.
Tell us, welcome to the channel.
We've been, uh, we've been looking
for this for a long, long time.
Uh, you are not only a great
paddle player, but you went
through something incredible.
Uh, you were very close to dying, uh, and
you're a fourth time, uh, cancer survivor.
Why don't you tell us a
little bit about your story?
Oh, perfect.
Thank you very much for the
opening, for the time, and thank
you for the amazing paddle player.
Nah, I'm not sure about that, but yeah.
Thank you very much.
Uh, yes, uh, well, something that
I love about paddle is that it's
more than just playing the sport.
It unites people, and for me,
uh, some people see paddle as
they're a bit different, but when
it comes to a cause, they unite.
I'm an example of that, that
I'm grateful for paddle.
Paddle has helped me.
Just the sport to be able to fight
and play again, but not only that
outside the court I've had amazing
support in any different ways.
They've done tournament.
They didn't raffle.
They don't shirts They don't events
and I've been very blessed and many
people have also been blessed That,
uh, from where I'm from, from Ecuador,
third world country that, you know, I
say that there's in different places,
cancer beats the people who don't
have the, uh, enough, uh, let's say,
uh, hospitals or procedures, or they
don't have the most emotional support.
So Paro gave me everything and then
gave me a lot of support and gave me
a lot of, uh, yeah, I'm definitely
going to play a bit in the future,
but it was great to have that.
support and that's why I own Paddle a lot.
Now, you said you're from Ecuador.
Is that where you started playing Paddle
or did you play another racket sport?
No, I play, uh, tennis until I was 19, 20.
And then, yeah, when I was a
kid, I saw in Argentina courts.
But normally when you play tennis,
you're a junior in the 90s.
Paddle was like a hobby and
the coach tend to say, do not
play paddle, your technique.
You know, that's what he used
to tell us when we were little.
And then I took a series in, uh, in UAE.
I lived there for eight years.
Wow.
So, uh, the first tournament
I played properly was the
World Paddle Tour of 2015.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's great.
So that's why I know all these players,
the retired ones, the new ones, et cetera,
all the young ones from a long time.
Right.
Cause it was a small tournament, it was.
It was right there, it was not much
people, 2015 not, not much people
were, and then it was like playing
with a bunch of people, friends, and,
and then they started, I liked it, and
then I played at tournaments and all
that, and then I went to Ecuador, and
then Ecuador battle started in, uh,
uh, around, uh, 2018, 2019, and then,
well, I went, when I was there, there
was three, four courts in the country.
Now there's 611 states.
Wow, that's amazing.
I have a great future.
So when did you get here in the USA?
I grew up here.
I grew up here in Miami.
In school, in Doral.
Uh, Doral Academy.
Uh, so when I graduated, I tried
to play tennis, obviously didn't
make it, and then I got to paddle.
Gotcha, that's beautiful.
There was no paddle when I was a kid here.
Yeah, that's fairly new.
But it's funny, yeah, because
like 10 years ago, uh, it
was hard to get a good match.
So, why don't you share with us, uh,
when you were first diagnosed with
cancer, and what was the process,
and how you were coming, and also the
second, the third, and the fourth time.
Yeah, uh, uh, I was in, I played, uh, this
is very important, and sometimes I tell to
players, I share this, uh, you never know
when is the last time you play paddle.
So I learned that the hard way and
since I played padel again the life
gave me a second chance or fourth
or Fifth chance how you call it.
I always enjoy practicing or playing a
match and for sure I lose more than I
win And when I lose it doesn't hurt me
because I played padel I was blessed
enough to move my body and play a sport
that I love why because long story short
I played a player FIIP in Dubai 2019
lost in semis or quarters Two and two.
And then I said, this sport, I
dropped the racket and I went
to London to spend in that time.
My girlfriend was from London
and I went to spend New Year's.
I said, I'll play next year.
That was like December 10th.
I go to London, December 18th, 28th.
I feel bad after Christmas and I
faint and I wake up in King's College.
I remember and boom, cancer.
I'm like, what?
Why?
I was never sick.
I was never injured.
Why?
Yeah, you have leukemia advanced.
Cancer is very advanced.
You have six to ten weeks of life.
I'm like, what?
I didn't know.
Wow.
And then I'm like, what do I do?
What's cancer?
Like, yeah, you don't know much.
You hear about it.
It's a taboo.
So they give you six to
eight weeks of ultrasound.
Yeah.
And you didn't have any other symptoms?
It just hit you like that?
Yeah, I guess they said,
did you feel fatigued?
Yeah, but we all feel fatigued.
We all feel.
Right, right.
But then like that, and you
start throwing like that.
But I never went to the hospital,
never got injured, never, nothing.
Very healthy person.
Uh, I didn't drink, of course, I didn't
smoke, nothing, I'm very healthy.
And then that happened, okay, then I
say, then, of course, being in London,
being an expat is very, very expensive.
Instead, I said, no, if I'm dying,
I want to die in my country.
So then I, I, mid January, I, I, I
flew to, um, to Ecuador, and they
picked me up literally in an airplane.
The, the, the, the 991 was there and they,
from the seat of the airplane in the, in,
in, in, they took me straight ambulance
to the, I didn't get my bag or anything,
you know, cause I was against time.
And I got chemo, et cetera, three
months after, great, perfect.
And then, uh, I beat it
after one year and a half.
And then the second time was
in, in Ecuador in August, 2022.
Okay, well, well, after the first
time you went back to normal life.
Uh, no, no, no.
It took me.
Six months, I couldn't play paddle
and every single day I regret
it because it could have been
the last, it was the last time.
So I didn't like the
way I left the course.
So I told some friends
and I don't get mad.
Don't get the racket.
It's okay.
You play, be happy.
Or when I, when I help some players
play in the tournament, they go, I lost.
I'm so bad.
And they cry.
I'm like, it's okay.
Don't worry.
You're alive.
You played, you enjoy, be thankful.
And then.
Hopefully pray for another one different
perspective, different perspective.
Now, obviously I lost many, many times.
Uh, and then, yeah, you,
you, it hurts, but it's okay.
You know, you have life, you continue.
And the second time, the second
time in August, uh, 2022.
Yeah.
Uh, I was, I was getting ready to, to
ring the bell because I was already,
uh, uh, like a year and a half.
Ring the bell for what?
Because if you don't have,
if it doesn't come back.
Uh, for some time, you ring
the bell, you're cancer free.
And then I went to do
a check, boom, again.
But that time I decided
not to do treatment.
I said no more.
I did a lot of, uh, yoga, a lot of
meditating, a lot of, oh, I believe in
God, a lot of trusting God and all that.
I said, and then I just started
living, literally living, no
stress, no problem, no nothing.
Cause you, you, they say, you have to
go to February, on February you go.
So that was like, they gave
me around six, seven months.
I said, let me live.
And that's why we did Ecuador Paddle
Fest that we brought Juan Lebron, Juan
Martín Díaz y Lingo when he was number
one in the world, uh, Lebron to Ecuador.
We did a big event and that's why the
birth of Ecuador Paddle Fest, which is
going this year will be the fourth year.
But that was the main point.
I wanted to do something big in my
country that, you know, to leave a mark.
And then Juan, he won on Sunday,
the World Paddle Masters.
He flew one night and I played
with him Monday night in Quito.
Wow.
So, so, but let me, let me, so
the first time, uh, you went
through the chemo treatment.
Yes.
Why you didn't want to get treatment
on the second, the second time?
Because, uh, you, you extremely get hurt.
It's weak, it's hard.
Your veins get, uh, burned.
Oh, when you do the chemo therapy.
Yeah, with chemo, the chemo,
the chemo is extremely horrible.
Like.
Really?
Yeah, very, very bad.
Kills you just as much.
Yeah, kills you, it's hurt.
It's, uh, uh, you know,
your mouth full of sores.
You can't breathe oxygen, you can't
go to bathroom, uh, your body.
So it is like a torture.
Pretty much.
It, it is a torture.
It is.
Wow.
It is.
So on the second time you decided I
don't, I can't, I can't deal with this.
I can't.
So what hap so how did you get better?
Uh, I started living with no
stress, uh, eating well, and I
accept that I, I was gonna die.
So I start, I stopped fighting and
let the, you know, the faith of God.
And then I did an exam.
I remember on December and right, I
got the news on the players, uh, dinner
and premier paddle, uh, Monterrey.
So I was in the dinner.
It was Saturday night.
I remember.
And then my, my, my doctor
says you're cancer free.
You don't have, it came out negative.
I was like, wow, why?
Yeah.
How did this?
A miracle.
It's like a miracle, right?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's, I, I, yeah.
So maybe, maybe your, your
process of thinking helped.
Yes, because, um, I got it on, on, on May.
I felt, I played a tournament in New
York with David Chocaro, Big Hawk.
He, uh, he's, he's, he's been a big,
a big brother and he's been there.
Um, we're playing.
I felt bad.
I couldn't wake up for the first
round and then and then I felt it
and then I knew I had it again.
I just felt it.
I remember it was a mayor tournament.
I play USPTA with David.
We went to Juan's club and then I came
back to emergency, went to hospital,
went to, um, Jackson and then it was,
uh, yeah, they told me you have cancer.
That was the second time.
That was third time here.
Third, oh, the third time End of May.
First week of June.
End of May.
Okay.
So once again, which I, I'm
sure it was devastating.
Like the first one, the second one.
So must be frustrated.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, geez, this
thing won't give up on me.
Yeah.
The thing is that I, I, I
thought I was, I was free.
Um, somebody, uh, very important that
I hold close to my heart that I'm going
to reserve his name, but we all know him
here and he's very important to, to the
Pyro world and especially to Pyro America.
Um, one day I'll say his name, but
for now, no, um, we all know him and
he's, he made everything possible
for me to go to UM and have the best.
Why you don't want to say his name?
Oh, for out of respect.
Okay.
But, uh.
I think we all know.
We all, we all know who he is.
And I, I, I'm most grateful for the
rest of my life because I've been
to hospitals and obviously in Quito
and London and Madrid I went to
emergency and Rome I went to emergency.
So I kind of know hospitals and I
didn't want to have the treatment
because of how hard it is.
I'm not saying the last
10 months was easy.
But it was way, way easier,
perfect, and the tension that I
had, uh, I'm very grateful with him.
Why is that?
Is it just different hospitals,
different techniques?
Well, the thing that I couldn't enter
the hospital that I got treated.
Yeah, it was hard, uh, to be honest.
Psychologically hard?
Eh, no, like, both, both, to be honest.
And then he made everything, um, easier
for me to have my treatment there.
And, but you, you, but the third
time you wanted to have treatment?
No.
Because the second time you refused.
Eh, I refused, and the
third time I also refused.
I even got my stuff and
went to Ecuador for a week.
How many weeks though?
No, actually, I, I, I went to
Ecuador with my bag, with my most
important things in my house.
And I said, I'm going to Ecuador.
I'm dying there.
I'm not going to have any.
I wanted to do some emotional treatments
and spiritual treatment to be in peace and
all that, have somebody to help me out.
And then just sign the paper and my
main doctor, you know, he knew my wish.
I wanted to like, that's
it, rest in peace.
And then this, this opportunity happened
and it was a sign from, for me, from
the universe, from the world, from God.
I said, fight, keep on fighting.
And I have a soft spot for, for kids
that have cancer or people have cancer.
So, uh, it's an opportunity for, for me
to fight and keep on doing what I do,
uh, which is, uh, help a lot of kids
or make people aware of kids or people
that need that with, with a soap, with
a toothbrush, with clothing, with a
pajama, five, ten, twenty dollars, you
could save lives and, and, and I know
that for sure and that's what we do
and we've done some events so that, so
that was like, The second confirmation
I got from, to say, keep on fighting.
So I came here, I went in there, I
entered, um, the hospital with 95%.
of leukemia in the body.
So that's almost everything.
So I was like walking.
That was the fourth time?
Third time.
The third time you came
into the hospital with 95%?
Yeah, in, in, in first week of June, 95
percent of leukemia on the whole body.
And what were the chances
of survival there?
Very, almost none because
it was all infected.
So they went extremely hard on the chemo.
Of course, uh, you know, it's a great
hospital, great technology, amazing
treatment, like something I've never seen.
Uh, it's amazing, uh, the food there,
how they treat you, how they take care.
So, uh, they did a great job,
and everything was going perfect.
Um, I got, I, I recovered.
I got 0 percent after two
and a half, three months.
So it was great.
It was, it was beautiful.
So you went from 95 to 0?
To 0.
004%. How can that be possible?
Chemos, uh, treatment, medicine.
Okay, but it's the first time you said
a chemo was very torture and painful.
Yeah, actually.
And this one wasn't, wasn't as much?
Not, uh, So the chemo was torture
and painful, but the, the, the
reaction of the body was great.
Why do you think that was?
The medicines, the technology,
the wisdom that they have, they
make you drink certain medicines
to prevent the prevention.
Because when I was in other countries,
like my mouth would be open.
I had a tube here.
The reaction, I lost my eyesight.
Of course, the hair is normal.
But then my body bones, I
was like, suffer so much.
Like my, my back part were closed.
I couldn't go to a bathroom.
Uh, I couldn't open my
mouth or so I couldn't talk.
Right, right.
But skin, everything, like the
reaction of leukemia, if you don't
have the right treatment, wow.
It's, it's horrible.
You, you crawl, you can't
stand up, uh, you can't eat.
'cause your fingers like, yeah, go here.
Or your toes.
You, you, you wake up like this.
And it's crazy how you,
I never value my toes.
Like, if you don't have
toes, you don't have balance.
It's so amazing.
I discovered things of the body.
Remember, we have ten fingers.
Like, this one is so necessary.
Why?
Because The middle one.
Yeah, you hold things.
Strength.
Eventually, like, even, even with a fork.
And then, you couldn't even get a fork.
So, it wasn't like that in the No, no, no.
No, with this treatment, uh, the
last ten months have been amazing.
Thankful and grateful.
And, uh, I only, I didn't
even throw up or anything.
It's, it's, maybe the body was
used to, but the type of level
of medication was amazing.
It's, it's amazing.
Still on.
Today is my first day,
actually, without a pic.
That was the third one.
And then the fourth one, the fourth one,
everything, the third one was great.
It was great.
Good.
And then, okay, boom, transplant.
Cause why here they discover
that it's something I was born
with a cell that never died.
They always had to say was a little
school, uh, leukemia for the Philadelphia.
Like, so something I was born with,
I didn't know I was born with it.
My parents, explain that again.
Philadelphia likes my,
my, my doctors play me.
It's a, it's a cell.
That, uh, I was born with it.
A cancer, a cancer cell.
Yeah, that it was sleeping, uh,
all, all the time until I was 29.
So I did something, I guess.
To trigger that.
To trigger, and then boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, it ate up my whole body.
What do you think that
was that triggered it?
Uh, typical, the, the, the, the most
dangerous cancer in the world is stress.
Stress, gosh.
That, that's, and the doctors,
like, that's what they said.
My business, health, all of this
is because people get stressed.
Now, do you have cancer in your family?
Like any family member?
Uh, small one.
My dad, like, uh, how do you call it?
Uh, what?
Uh, male?
There you go.
You take it out.
Simple.
Not simple, but it's like no chemo.
You do that.
But that, besides that, no.
And, and it was, uh,
and then that was good.
And then it started hurting here a lot.
Your knees?
Yeah.
My, this knee.
And then my ankle.
And then I'm like, hurt.
And then it gave me pain.
Pain medicine, pain medicine.
So, but you were already
outside the hospital?
Yeah, I was outside the hospital.
I just go twice a week and all that.
To check up?
And I had a chemo bag for three months.
I had a bag, chemo,
connected here, chemo 24 7.
What is it like, like a liquid?
Yeah, it's a liquid with a machine.
You have a certain amount of time to it?
Yeah, with a machine.
And then every, every other 15
to 20 minutes, it goes beep.
It gives one chemo.
So, uh, the thing that they wanted
to make sure, that since I wasn't
connected in the hospital, I was
connected 24 7 to keep on killing that 0.
002. And, everything was great.
I had a hurt here and hurt, and then they
said, go do a biopsy in Leonora Hospital
in UM on your foot, because it hurt here.
I couldn't walk, and they opened
my foot, and I knew it already.
Something was wrong.
You feel it.
The body feels it.
And then they're like, sorry,
this cancer has spread to your
bones, you have metastasis.
And to be honest there,
I said, game set match.
I said, Man, that thing
won't give up on you.
Yeah.
I said, game set match.
And then, uh, So you got, uh, what was it?
Bone metastasis.
Bone metastasis?
Yeah, on November 7th.
Exactly.
Of what parts of your body?
It was in 22 parts.
22 Yeah, because, uh, when they
do a PET scan, wherever you have,
uh, cancer cell, it lights up.
So like here, here, here, here, here.
Wow.
Yeah.
It was, yeah.
My God.
So thank God.
And then how did I get cured of that?
They, they went very strong on
chemo for like very, very strong.
I felt.
So you, you still have that thing.
You were going through the
chemo for the previous cancer.
And now they found this
and then they went off.
They changed them for, they went
all out for, to kill this cancer.
They did kill it.
Thank God and everything.
But it was too harsh on the body
that I left on Thursday, very happy.
You know, no moustache disease and I came
back on Tuesday in emergency because I
had, uh, three blood infections and there,
uh, there I was in ICU for one week.
Wow.
ICU is right before six feet underground.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was there for seven days.
I lost control of body.
So I used to do number one,
number two without me noticing.
So I used to be like this and
felt uncomfortable and this.
I, I, I lost track of time.
There's no window there.
Oh, I didn't see windows.
I lost track of time.
Uh, it's very intense ICU.
It's, it's the vibe.
It's, it's, it's, yeah, people next to
me that they left, you know, they left
this world and, and had three infections.
And then my main doctor
said that it was great.
It was a miracle that I, that I
survived ICU because, uh, they
actually postponed the transplant.
Because they Oh, they did a transplant.
Uh, in December 20.
But they postponed it because
it was, the possibilities of
leaving ICU were very little.
Okay, so you left the ICU.
Yes, on November.
November 2024.
Yes.
So, a few months back.
Yeah, and then they did, my
brother was my, uh, he matched
with me for the transplant.
And You're talking about
bone marrow transplant.
Yeah, bone marrow transplant.
Uh huh.
That happened in December
21st at 9 p. m. Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
So, uh, and how's that process?
Transplant is very dangerous.
Uh, why?
Because, uh, For both people or just for
myself, two weeks before they clean you.
What do you mean they clean you?
All your cells.
Oh, they kill the good and the bad.
Clean everything.
So you're, you're the weakest.
The weak, weak to zero.
They have to go negative.
Like your white blood
cells and all that stuff.
Plakates, everything that makes us
human that we could walk, run, eat.
Everything, everything.
They kill everything.
They wipe out.
And so they did something here,
or they put a, like a tool, a
thing here, catheter, catheter.
And they, it's a three
hour, four hour process.
They, um, they, they get the best cells
from, from my brother, my big brother.
They took it off from here and then they
put a machine and they get the best.
They put it here, three,
four hour process.
You feel it.
And then you start recovering.
So I was in negative
for around three weeks.
Anything, a mosquito, too cold, too hot,
fever, too cold, shivers, a mosquito,
a bite, a bite of food kills you.
And I got the fever, uh, five days after.
So I was, I was in intense
scare for eight days because the
biggest fear of doctors is fever.
Yeah.
Fever kills.
Because that's infection.
And then your body doesn't start working.
So I, I opened my eyes,
uh, from December 27.
To like January 3rd, 4th, I couldn't
open my eyes, couldn't eat, I
couldn't see this, that, everything.
And after December 7th or January 7th or
8th, I just started feeling way better.
And finally my counts went negative,
uh, negative, uh, like 3, negative 2.
I was in zero, then the next day, 0.
1. And then as soon as you, you leave a
certain amount of numbers, you're free.
So I left.
Uh, two weeks and a half ago.
Wow.
Yeah.
Man, what a journey.
What a journey, man.
So you cheated.
All this, I've seen, I've seen all your,
your, your podcasts, so I, I was there,
that's why I, I thank Paddle, cause
I, I know everything about Paddle last
year, anything, all the tournaments,
who won, the pairs, all of my stuff,
I was watching like Asia Paddle Tour.
Oh my God, you're running out of stuff.
Yeah, I was running out of stuff.
All right, come on.
I didn't like that December, cause
you know, there's not much activity.
I was like, come on,
let's go, let's start.
So Charlie, I mean, your story,
it's truly inspirational, literally
coming back from the death.
I mean, as, as, as, as it sounds, uh,
and, and, and what, what is your message?
I mean, and how can we help not only
us, but our viewers and listeners?
The message is don't take life
too serious because you're
eventually going to lose it.
Like, that's what I like.
We all lose to life.
Life is always going to win.
So that means that we're going to die.
Yeah, for sure.
So some people don't know that you're
going to How soon or how quick.
But we're going to die.
Yeah.
I'm, uh, I don't, before obviously I hold
to things or to goals or to militaristic
stuff or to tournaments or to victory.
That, that, that depend on
my emotional, uh, status.
You know, how business is going,
how you're winning, if you're
putting the ball in or not.
Now, for me, I'm full of things
that I'm grateful for, that I do a
routine in the morning and afternoon.
Like, remember, look, this is crazy.
This is amazing.
So, moving your fingers.
I'm happy for that.
Just moving your fingers.
Yeah, and then I do this.
I'm like, oh shoot.
I feel it.
And then I do have a routine.
Oh, my shoulders are great.
And I do this.
I'm not connected.
So, I'm like, so many
things to be happy about.
That you take for granted sometimes.
That we take it for
granted, that was normal.
And it's not normal.
The day that I'm not connected
in the hospital, I'm super happy.
The day that I can be walking
by myself, it's a miracle.
The day I shower myself, I
can go to the bathroom myself.
I still have the thing in
the shower where you sit.
If I was, let's say, I was like 80
or 90 or in the bathroom, the things.
I was in a wheelchair
and then I was with door.
I couldn't walk, couldn't step, and
all these things, every step that I
make, sometimes I, I, I look, uh, uh,
funny 'cause I walk and go, thank you.
Cool, thank you.
Like I could walk by myself.
I step on the court.
So how many things that you're like
grateful for, and be grateful for that.
And then the rest job you're
going to lose eventually if you
have a company when you die.
Somebody's going to take it away.
This is temporary.
Everything is temporary.
Everything is just enjoy the
day because tomorrow we don't
know what's going to happen.
And we just imagine tomorrow.
Sometimes we imagine too much.
You have too much
expectations and all that.
Yes, to be, you know, to achieve
and to be, to be somebody, all that.
Yes, that's correct.
But then at the end of the day, we just,
we just forget what's real life about.
It's about self love.
It's about loving yourself.
And it's about having health.
If you have health, you're wealthy.
You are wealthy.
If you have health, and you're not
drinking pills every single day, 20, 30,
40 pills, you're not connected, and you
can walk, and you could be by yourself.
You're healthy.
You're wealthy.
For me, that's, I never, I took
that for granted, being healthy.
You know, you're young, you're
strong, you're always gonna, nothing's
gonna happen to you, all that.
But in the moment, we're all dying, and
your loved ones, Every day is not one day
more is one day less of your loved ones.
If you have a kid, you're
eventually gonna lose them.
Or a kid or a daughter, they grow up,
they get married or somebody dies.
Uh, if you have a partner, your
partner, yeah, you every day is one
more day less that you're gonna see
that person, or you're gonna break
up in person because of, I know
personal problems or somebody dies.
But you're eventually going to
finish and end up with your partner.
And there's always a possible last match.
There's always a possible, like, I was
thinking, like, Damn, my last match, I, I,
I did enjoy it, but I didn't know because
it was, it was, this happened randomly.
I, I could have enjoyed more.
Remember my last tournament, I
got to play, uh, the, the World
Cup, Seniors World Cup, my first
Seniors World Cup in Valencia.
It was amazing.
I just had to enjoy it.
And then, uh, I got, uh, luckily enough,
I, uh, I got into main job at Capulco and
I enjoyed it so much that it was weird
that I enjoyed it too much because I
think the body kind of gives you signs or
a feeling and I started enjoying it and
boom, you know, it happened and you're
there and then you see the world advancing
and, and in my case, the power world
and things, et cetera, tournaments, and
you want to be there and you want that.
And then you say, Hmm.
Like I said, like the doctors told, used
to tell me, or you get cured or you die.
There's no, there's no,
so there was no suffering.
There was no suffering for my
part because I knew it was going
to be over soon or I die or I get
cured, but nothing lasts forever.
Nothing, literally nothing, you know,
what we eat today, you know, what
happens tomorrow, you know, every person
in our world is going to disappear.
In 30 or 40 years, maybe there's
three different people here, not us.
And then like, make it
count while we live.
And then the other thing, how you
could support is like by this, you
know, creating and making Paddle more
bigger and all that, because you guys.
Believe it or not, you, you create more,
more, more info, more influential paddle.
So people keep on believing in the sport.
They keep on hiring, making,
investing and all that.
And then people like you just make
the paddle grow, grow, grow, grow.
And it helps a lot of opportunities
that our families, not just
here, because I speak for myself.
Ecuador looks at, let's say, uh,
Miami or America, and it's an example.
So if people do it here,
they'll do it there.
And it creates and all that stuff.
So it's beautiful.
And the most important thing, um, you
don't have to donate hundreds of dollars
or anything as long as you, you know,
there's a 10, 20 or not even money
things like, uh, there's a lot of people
that need soap, you know, toothbrush,
people die because they don't have
toothbrush and teeth to wash every
day and they have an infection here,
but they have cancer and they die like
it's crazy how people just die more.
They die because they don't
have emotional support.
And things to fix it,
then the disease itself.
That's the problem, yeah.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
You wouldn't believe it.
People just give up, or
they don't have nothing.
For me, the goal was
to play one more time.
And it still is.
It still is.
My goal is to play one more tournament.
And I'm not asking 10,
15, I'm not asking, no.
One symbol.
Maybe it could be a one day
tournament, and I'll be happy
playing a one day tournament.
But that was my goal.
It's been my goal the last 10
months, and now I'm very happy
to be on the tournament here.
I'm not playing, but just watching,
and then, but the thing is that I
don't regret, and if I don't play padel
ever again, I'm not gonna regret it
because I took the juice out of it.
I was very happy because I
learned this five years ago.
But I don't imagine leaving the
court very bad and then getting
sick and not playing ever again.
And that's what happens when people die.
We say, we should've eaten,
I should've Contact him.
I should have had a drink.
Regret.
Yeah, I can't reach him out.
I should I didn't answer his message
yeah, because that happens to us
because there's some kids that leave
this world and For me, it's very normal
that in a certain point is the most
natural common normal thing and today
I'm ready to die I wasn't ready to die
like the first the first three cancers.
I wasn't ready to die Yeah, I, but
I knew that I wasn't going to die.
I felt it, but I wasn't ready.
Like right now I'm ready because
I understood, I think I understood
life, but I'm just enjoying every day.
Like for me today is, today is,
today is, today is everything.
Like they said, the past is gone,
the present is, it's, it's a
gift, and the future is unknown.
It's crazy how, no, because I
was, I was a big fan of, you know,
planning and, you know, and then
one week and three months and this
and that, and it's just imagination.
Yeah, and then it's just imagination
because it doesn't happen because
something I learned a doctor every
day that you wake up with 5 a. m
they come take out blood and then
they do the results every day is like
that and They give it to a doctor
and the doctor company goes today.
We're gonna wear about today Yeah,
they always tell me that day by day
if you hear results today, we're good.
Perfect today.
We're bad.
Perfect So it keeps on changing,
and then it is the main point
that I learn is day by day.
Okay, and Charlie, let us know, what are
you doing to help, uh, cancer survivors?
In 2022, I started a little,
uh, uh, little, like they say,
uh, uh, foundation movement.
It's called Paddle vs.
Cancer.
In 2022, I, I was blessed enough to play
a couple premier and like for example, tap
all the other good friends.
They used to gimme the shirt, the
paddle rackets or things, and I
used to raffle them in my country.
I still do not, some people
reach out and say, Hey, can you
get me the share of something?
Can you gimme like, okay,
let me ask, et cetera.
And then they, they pay the, the,
the real price to the foundation
and then I give them them.
Then for I give them for free but
they have to pay to a foundation or
help a person or show me evidence
that they're helping a Foundation
so that's as parrots cancer.
I get it get from the players.
Um, how can people get involved with that?
They want to donate.
I It's it's a contact you directly.
Yeah, they could contact me directly
I mean we can we create a GoFundMe a
GoFundMe for Charlie Moon foundation or
something I would like more, um, maybe
we could, we could create like a, uh,
uh, a Pyro Smash open and the profits
go to a certain foundation or certain
kids or certain people and all that.
That would be great.
I, I, uh, I really liked the, the thing
that to create awareness of people,
cause we all, we all need in the sense,
maybe we don't need, uh, That much money,
or we need money, or we need emotional
support, or we need a hug, or we need a
nice letter, or the thing that everything
when you're in that room, it was amazing
the love from, from the paddle that,
that it just makes you keep on or like
messages and all that it's, it's, it's,
it's, I think it's better than medicine
for me because I'm, uh, I'm not, uh, I'm
a first, um, let's say I'm, uh, I'm a
person that lived it first, like hand.
Yeah, of course.
So I, I know the feeling.
Yeah.
Of a letter of say like, yeah, for
example, premier Paddle was amazing.
Um, they did some shirts
and, and then there's some
videos and from a big PPL too.
PPL, no, PPL was something else.
PPO was like, and when you're in
a situation that means everything.
It was no, PPII, I, I've zero words
in the sense of, of thankfulness to
describe the feeling that they, they only
did in Alex Sand and they in New York
and, and all that internally as well.
I don't know.
It was, it was a big blessing and very
happy to, to have that love because
sometimes you do want to give up and
I'm not saying all the people who are,
who are living through this first.
I want to talk to people, the families,
you know, eventually nobody loses.
I'm not a fan of saying they
lost the battle of cancer.
You don't lose the battle.
Because it's not like, then we all
lose the battle against, I don't know,
traffic or, or a plane or, no, it's,
it's a way of living this world of dying.
So we accept that we're all going to die.
Uh, let's just value each person and
let, let not somebody die to learn from
the example or go through it to learn
from the example and like value it.
And literally the most important
thing is value life because
you're going to lose it.
And then I repeat it again
is value life because.
You're going to lose your life today.
I don't know, believes what's
going to happen after you die.
But to be aware that you're going
to die and not in a long time or
short time, because yeah, I'm dying.
Look at my father has 66.
So I, I imagine and I live
66, but no, I almost live 28.
You don't know.
Right.
You're right.
And then I have this in my, in my family.
They started living day by day as
well and they worry about today
and then we have had less problems.
Less things and less, it's
just what you can control.
And for example, you cannot control
if you get sick or not, like,
Yeah, you could bear, you could
do this, but eventually you are.
And then if you get sick,
there's only two ways.
You get cured or you die,
and it's gonna finish.
And then everything has,
uh, literally an answer.
And then, that's for me and the people
who have cancer, uh, learn from it.
Live it.
Don't fight it.
Don't talk positive,
uh, negative about it.
Just talk positive, have faith in it,
believe you're going to get out, and
know that it's not going to last forever.
You're going to get cured,
or you're going to die.
And the, the fourth time I got it, I
was praying to God, and, and family,
like, I wanted to leave already, because
When you're in that situation, and all
the family members don't know that, if
you love your family member, you want
that person to be happy, to be well.
And then I was as and I told my
family, I'm like, you guys love
me, and they're like, yeah, for
sure, we love you all our life.
Then let me go, uh, don't
pray for me to stay.
Pray for the for the will of
God, because I want to live.
If you love me, you do not want to
see me screaming, cause I was And
morphine and diluted and all the
pain meds, oxycondo, all the pain
medicines that you can imagine.
And I'm very open to it.
I was suicidal.
Uh, because it like the, and
I told my doctor that like the
medicine, the pain medicine was,
was giving me weird thoughts.
And, and, and I was very,
I'm not, uh, ashamed of it.
And I could talk to, to somebody,
reach out if you're suicidal.
Please reach out, uh, if you
have a cancer, please reach out.
We could talk, we could Zoom.
Uh, I don't, that's a thing that I,
I love and I have a calling in life
that I've been doing that I am talking
to mothers of kids that have cancer.
I'm talking to people who have
cancer and then we help them
out in different ways, not just
economic wise, but emotional wise.
Because if there's a reason I
survive, it's not for my own,
for okay, keep up my life.
No, I found my passion and my calling
that if I got in a world of peril.
And, and I could let awareness know
the power of world awareness of people
because unfortunately we all know one
cousin, uh, uncle, friend of a friend.
Unfortunately, cancer is in, in our
world and, and today, uh, I came in.
Three things happened beautiful
today said, Hey, I'm happy
you're alive, et cetera.
My dad, this, he left with this and then,
and then we sit and we chat and then
they're like, well, I haven't heard that.
And then another person, Hey, look,
thanks for calling on my cousin.
He's okay, et cetera.
He's pumped because I
said, no, let's do it.
You know, we contact, we text, et cetera.
Or when people are about dying, they call
me and then they, they die a bit with.
With tranquility that they're not a
failure that they didn't feel no way
because some people when they're dying
for cancer Like oh I failed, you know,
I did this no, it's okay You know
It's the way that you're going out and
whatever god will you believe on etc
or religion or an energy or whatever
find peace Yeah, like it's okay and and
not have the peace right now like like
I said Probably I don't get it back.
I have to wait until june 21st six
months after if you don't get it back in
six months after a transplant Perfect.
You're good to go.
It's rare.
It's like you've never seen before
only once in history that people get
it after six months of transplant.
So how much time do you have?
Yeah, it's worth three, four more months.
But if, if, if I get it or
know anything, I know that with
or without, I'm still living.
Yeah.
I'm still living.
So it doesn't make me a
different case or special.
Cancer is a taboo that when you hear that
you, you acknowledge to suffering death.
But, uh, it's, it's, it's, there's
more, there's some other cancers
that people have emotionally.
Uh, for some traumas, some things that
we haven't let it go, we haven't cut.
Uh, those are the things I
suggest to people, like cut,
leave it, or live the day.
Because a lot of cancer brings
us from the past, from the
emotions, it's attaching us.
And it just evolves, it
creates a monster inside.
And then we get sick, and
then we lose everything.
From personal experience, I was doing
great, I was in Dubai, a year is amazing.
Had a beautiful life.
Beautiful things, everything, papa.
And then I worked so hard for, for me
to, like, lose everything and all that.
So, it's not like you hear that on the
internet and you hear that people saying,
but I'm telling you what happened.
Like, it's a true story.
A life story.
Then, for me, what you guys do
is we're creating, um, awareness.
So, I'm very blessed and happy
and really appreciate you guys.
Yeah, Charlie, uh, you
have an incredible story.
You know, you're an amazing person.
Very inspirational.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.