Koffee Krew Unite with Jeff and Kirby

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You gotta talk closer. It's like last night. You deep throat that thing or what? Yeah, just like last night. Let it touch your lips a little. Okay. Introduce yourselves. I just don't like the we stuff on it. Just right there. Yeah. Just closer. My name is Jeff Robbins. I train at the BJJ Society in Gilroy under Jerry Cazarez. Go ahead, Mike. Oh. My name is Mike Kirby from Solidarity Jiu Jitsu, in the Caio Terra Association. So Kirby, tell us what we're doing here today. We're having Kiko's Bay Area open mat at Santa. Clara University. It's way too early on a Sunday for me, but there's probably a few hundred people in there. Yeah, it's packed. I don't get out of bed early except for Kiko. I hardly ever get outta bed to get my butt beat up, that's for sure. You're from Gilroy? Yes. Okay. So how old were you when you started jiu jitsu? 47. Nice. I'm 60 now. What challenges have you had with jiu jitsu? Everything you can imagine, right? Just constantly. You feel like at that age you feel like you're getting beat up pretty good. After a while your body gets hard into it, so it just kind of goes away. Yeah, it's just probably the same thing that most people go through. A lot of small injuries that just kind of sideline you for a minute, but you just kind of keep on going. What has been the positive aspects of jiu jitsu? In your life? God, there's a ton of really good things that jiu jitsu offers, right? So high self-confidence, the ability to work your way through things that you would not normally want to do. Meeting really good people. That's a really good thing about jiu jitsu is there's, the crowd generally tends to be really good people. Right. What's your favorite submission, Kirby? Probably the loop choke. Definitely the loop joke. My favorite submission. So you are a brown belt, correct? Yes, correct. And, how long have you been doing jiu jitsu? 24, 22, 23 years. He started in 2002, 2004. He's way underrated. I bet. So any other schools that you, were under before, opened up Solidarity? Yeah, I was with, Claudio Franca from most of my jiu jitsu career until about 20 13, 20 14. I got my brown belt in 2012. Okay. Do you wanna talk about Solidarity for a bit? Sure. We started Solidarity jiu jitsu about two years ago. My main motivation for it was I couldn't find a location that kind of met the vibe I was looking for. I think a lot of jiu jitsu started becoming too serious. A little too political. We pay tuitions in theory. Right. It's like going to any other gym. We should get something in return. Correct. And I think there's too much of this social expectation of blind loyalty, if you will. Okay. And so I think, and then a lack of, you know, we still have some traditions, right? The gi, bow in before class, but there was a little too much of it in BJJ, I think. And Solidarity bringing is there a pretty good vibe for you? I like to think so. It's a friendly environment. It's a pretty welcoming environment. We like to keep the gym super clean. That's kind of important to me. Everybody's welcome. Kind of an open door policy. Yeah. I've trained there a few times and it's actually a really good gym, even though Mike's there. And the dojo that you come from, give you some background. Yeah. Okay. So Jerry started this dojo, what, two, three years ago? Something like that? Two or four years ago? Yeah. It's a smaller dojo, mainly white belts. We got a couple of upper belts, but mainly white belts. really good people. Jerry's an excellent teacher. The students, there's a lot of really good students who are really interested in not only jiu jitsu, but having good friendships also. Great. Yeah, that's, like I said before, that's the biggest thing about jiu jitsu is that you really meet some good people and get some good friendships to go along with it. Yeah, I agree with that. That's where I met Mike at. Yeah, we both came from Claudio Franca originally. Yeah. Okay, great. Okay. What belt are you now? Brown belt. You're up there too? Yeah. Okay. Well it was nice talking to you. I think they're gonna get a photo going here in the background, so if you guys like to join that, go for it. Alright, thanks luckee thanks man. Take care guys. Ok bye.