Jairo Miguel
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Jairo Miguel is a bullfighter child prodigy
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Miguel first began practicing bull fighting at the young age of six. He was signed to professionally fight bulls at the age of 12 in Mexico, because he could not compete in Spain, whose minimum age is 16. In 2007, he was severely gored by a bull and nearly lost his life.
On February 6, 2010, Miguel achieved the unusual feat of killing six bulls in one afternoon, an achievement regarded by experts as "extremely rare" for a 16-year-old. On his fear upon facing six bulls and the risk that it entails, Miguel had said: "Of course there are some nerves. Death is always there in bullfighting. But I am physically and mentally prepared for this.”
Child prodigy
A child prodigy is someone who, at an early age, masters one or more skills far beyond his or her level of maturity. One criterion for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding...
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Miguel first began practicing bull fighting at the young age of six. He was signed to professionally fight bulls at the age of 12 in Mexico, because he could not compete in Spain, whose minimum age is 16. In 2007, he was severely gored by a bull and nearly lost his life.
On February 6, 2010, Miguel achieved the unusual feat of killing six bulls in one afternoon, an achievement regarded by experts as "extremely rare" for a 16-year-old. On his fear upon facing six bulls and the risk that it entails, Miguel had said: "Of course there are some nerves. Death is always there in bullfighting. But I am physically and mentally prepared for this.”