Jose Hernandez:  

Been a minute since i have seen my classmates. After doing an 11 year stint in prison i have my own business. Been a diesel mechanic for sometime now working on heavy equipment. Started bodybuilding Jan 10 2017. It's been four awesome years of seeing the body grow......i love it. Enjoy my time with my wife Mari and son Jace. Oldest son Joey doing his thing. Been blessed with our two boys. Both are bad ass musicians and gentlemen. I have enjoyed playing music and recording music with them. Life has been good even though things were difficult at first but the good thing is.........we hitting on all cylinders and doing well. Love you guys.......how can i ever forget ya'll? Sometimes life gets real busy and we forget to reach out to others that you have grown up with. I can truly say that i have missed you guys. Back in May of 2009 i had a tractor trailer dump truck fall on top of me and it messed me up pretty bad. The accident caused my pelvis to be broken in 9 places. Broke my tailbone in half and ruptured two of my vertebra. I was confined to wheel chair. I reached the scales at 315 lbs. I was in bad shape. After coming home and being confined to the "chair" was really awkward for me but there i would learn a very valuable lesson that has enriched my life. Ever since the accident took place i made myself a promise..........to never look back at what seems to be a defeat and to always push hard no matter what. Six months later i began to walk. I had to relearn how to walk.........an awesome challenge. Music for our family (on both sides) was always playing in our homes and it runs deep in our family. From the youngest to the oldest somebody plays some kinda instrument or sings or harmonizes well. I have played in several bands made a lot of good brothers and sisters in music. Have sang in front of many as well as to myself in an 8 by 6 prison cell but have had a blast entertaining others. Music runs through our veins and it'll always be in our lives. March 22 of this year had the opportunity to record two new singles. "Solo Tu" "Only You" by the platters and "Pretend you don't see her my heart." In Spainish "Pretende" by Jerry Vale in the movie Goodfellas. I translated all the lyrics and i own the rights to "Pretende". I have been blessed to jam out with some of the best and record with some of the best. Overall i can't complain because life has been good to me. When i was at the Bill Clements Unit in Amarillo i was assigned to the kitchen. There in the kitchen i was assigned to the butcher shop which came with benefits of learning a lot about meats. How to cut them, cure them ......and so on. When it came to learning "Big Bertha" . She was a full blown reverse flow smoker that could hold 46 briskets at one time. There i would learn to perfect my skills in the bbq world. I learned so much in the time i was there. The things i have learned have allowed me to expand our smoked bbq meats all over the map. We smoke the best briskets that you can eat. We smoked "Dinosaur" ribs (beef short ribs) and whole 35-50 lb whole pigs. The juiciest you have ever eaten. An experience you are not going to ever forget. We smoke it all at Smokin Locos. The time that i spent in prison was a blessing to me because there i was allowed to become me. It was there i learned "me". To be able to sit there and smoke meats for hours and hours is a complete joy to my heart. Many don't know the work involved in good ol' fashion smoked bbq. A lot of work is involved when it comes to smoking delicious juicy brisket, beef short ribs, whole 40-50 lb piglets that come out amazing. We either smoke them whole or roast them. Either way is a hell of an experience you will never forget. We have taken old, old recipes that were given to us by our elders to be given and passed down through out all our generations. Cooking skills that others know nothing of we use on a weekly basis to cater to others that are looking for the best smoked bbq around. We take a lot of pride in what we do. We baby our meats through out the whole cook. Our meats are basted with mouth watering spices in special made broths that only amplify the taste in the mouth. Bodybuilding.......of you see our photos you will see me where i am lying on a hospital bed in a yellow gown. A tractor trailer dump fell on me while i was working on it. The tire man never notified me that he had aired up the truck. Long story short, when a tractor trailer runs out of air......it will move regardless. The thing fell on me breaking my pelvis in 9 places. Braking my tailbone in half and rupturing two of the most important vertabra in our spinal chord. I was confined to a wheelchair and this would really agitate me and aggravate me. I couldn't walk. I made myself a promise that the day i could walk i was going to lift weights and body build. I could see my body wasting away quickly. Especially my legs. Dora Roberts was a huge help for me. There i would start lifting and trying t...Expand for more