Koffee Krew Unite with Jeff and Danny

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So what do you think about this coffee crew? Open mat, Koffee Krew is great. I've known, Kiko for a long time and I like, it's good to see him starting to expand this program and, this Sunday gathering and this is pretty massive. Yeah, I mean, gather 200 plus people, so it's pretty nice. Show up. How about you? Yeah, this is a great event. I've only recently been introduced to the Koffee Krew, I gotta say I've been coming out to it for about a month. It's great to just train with new people, different body types, different styles. It's been wonderful. So tell me a little bit about yourself, your name and what school you go to. Yeah, I'll go first. Yeah. My name's Jeff. I originally started doing jiu jitsu up in Canada and for the last, oh, 14, 15 years now, I've been, with Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu under Matt Darcy and Dave Camarillo. Nice. My name is Danny Tran and I'm part of One World jiu jitsu in Newark, California, and, been doing it since 2009. So being just, you know, it's one of those things, it's a marathon, you just keep showing up. You don't realize how much better you're getting every day, until years later, you're like, are you accumulating a lot of stuff? Yeah, it's great. Yeah. So what got you started in the first place? Just a path in life. I was 29 years old, I was like, all right, what am I gonna do? You know, I started, getting my stuff together, Cleaning out my, my, my walkway through life and jiu jitsu was one of the biggest things that, made it happen. It's, uh, you know, still not perfect, but, it just keep me on the narrow path of, being on the road doing better stuff for myself. Cool. How about you? Yeah, so I've always been doing martial arts as a kid. It was karate later it turned into, Thai boxing. Yeah. Had a bit of a amateur career up in Canada. And, by the time I was 25, I just, was getting tired of getting hit in the face. And, there you go. They're in disguise in like pajamas doing stuff that I had never seen before. And, I gave it a try and I was hooked. Yeah, that's what jiu jitsu will do man, once you get, humbled, you're like, okay, this is it. And, it's a whole different game. Yeah. Everyone knows that, does it, it's fun. It's fun. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Okay. What does it mean to you to be a good training partner? I think there's certain levels of, when you go through the years of training, you start to realize what makes a good training partner and basically down to, everyone says it spazzyness, and being conscious of your surroundings and your training partner and making sure that when you are training together that you are aware of, the moves you do, that your training partner might not know, right? And be courteous and to, first thing you don't want to do is always grip on anything, especially in training and open mats especially, you gotta be very courteous and, gradually go into any type of submission that you do to, just to make sure that you give your training partner a chance to escape because that's what you're here for to learn how to get into a position and giving your, training partner an opportunity to get position. Without you're not really learning anything, you're just trying to lift each other's heads off. True. I agree. One a hundred percent. We all have to go to work the next day. Yep. And even if you're going against someone who's, a lower rank. There's always something that you can work on. You can work on your fundamentals, your basics. You can always take something from that. Correct. Yeah. I think learning and get in and get out of positions, bad positions, good positions is the foundation of good training. It's leave the egos away, and sometimes when you're in a bad position. You don't want to get put away, but, so you gotta push a little bit harder. But in the end, it's always about making sure that no one gets hurt. And take your ego out of it. Yep. There's no ego training. Definitely. Definitely. So what do you think was your hardest belt? Because you're black belt. Yeah. And you are a brown belt. I am, I'm gonna say purple was grittiest. Yeah. It's that stage where you know a decent amount and then it's the point where it separates high and mediocre, purple belt for me was the grittiest. And, once I got towards the end of it, I started to really develop a game and I got a lot better. But right at purple was really tough because I was unsure of a lot of things I did. Yeah. And I had to refine and still a lot of it. And so I was still getting caught in things I shouldn't have been. But once I got a little bit passion, it, jiu jitsu came a little smoother for me. So for me, very cool. I'd say blue belt. I always say the first year of jiu jitsu was learning what not to do. Yeah. Correct. You leave your ego out the door, you get it checked often. And, just overcoming, getting tapped and then learning how to tap and how to get out of positions and having that blue belt as that recognition right, is the hardest for me. Okay. one of these days. Maybe I'll have you guys on here and hear about your childhood through adulthood. Okay. Alright, so turn off to One World, jiu jitsu. Newark California? Stop by train. Okay. Guerrilla jiu jitsu, San Jose, California. Thank you.