Koffee Krew Unite with Kiko, Jenny and Ray

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What do you think about this big open mat? I think it's pretty fun. I haven't gotten to roll, been walking around and checking, but it's it's more than I expected. I think next time Kiko, you're gonna have to have a much larger spot. Yeah. Yeah. Double more, more, more mats. I see Kiko sweating, but it's not from the jiu jitsu, guys are running around. Making sure everything's running smooth. Yeah, it's been great. It's like always getting together. See family second, family reunion and then meeting new people too. Meeting new hungry purple belts that are taking arms and taking names. Yeah, taking egos out the doors. That's good. It's fun. Yeah. Tell me about your, dojo, and, how long you've been training. Yeah. my name is Jenny and I train out of, Caio Terra Academy in San Jose. I've been training for, actually, I just hit my nine year jiu jitsu anniversary. Nice. So nine years. Congrats. Thank you so much. What belts are you now? I'm a purple belt. Okay, great. Two stripes to be exact. Two striped purple belts. Good for you. Sandbagging, is she? My name's Ray. I've been training for a long time. I lost count. Have a background in wrestling, a little bit of judo, but I'm at Solidarity. Been there for the last year and a half. Before that I was at CTA HQ, brown belt under Kiko. It's been good Solidarity, Koffee Krew. It's, a vision that was set out long time ago and to see today is just humbling and amazing to see like all the things come together. I was talking with Bam and it's just, remember when it was like maybe trying to get a mat full Sunday mornings and now it's like there's not enough space for hundreds of people. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. Yeah. Kiko. You've been planning this for a while, correct? It's been a thought for a long time. The planning started a couple months ago, but it's been slow and trying to get people, not necessarily on board, but get everything in place. Right. Organized. Yeah. Yeah. The venue switched a couple times trying to figure out where to do it. So Santa Clara's jiu jitsu Club, came through and let us do it here. Great. That's awesome. Who has influenced your jiu jitsu the most? I'd have to say my brother Greg. My brother Greg's been a brown belt under Claudio Franca for a long time, and the reason why I say that is it's like the mental training, like when we're on the mats, it's be first, don't step back, take two steps forward that idea of imposing my game and back to the days of him doing Chinese water torture on me, or doing noogies, just being physical and just roughhousing, yes. That plays into my jiu jitsu. And of course, like my teachers along the way. Got a shout out, Caio and Vitor, for sure. But I would say the biggest influence has been my brother Greg. It's so natural to me. Into just like bang heads and do that. But jiu jitsu is not always that, right? Jiu jitsu is more about being technical at times, but I've learned that just my art, my style is just heavy. And so, anytime I get away from my truth, I can find myself in trouble. And so my brother Greg has always been the one to just, post your game and play your game. And that's, you gotta give him a shot. Awesome. Okay. So how about you? I think after training for so long, I would say every coach that I've trained with and under has influenced, my jiu jitsu a lot. But I think for me, my husband Sebastian, has been my number one, training partner, for the most part and been my rival, as you can say, because I'm always on the mat trying to beat him up. That's my number one goal. That's the goal. I'm just getting into leg locks now, so he better watch out his knees. She's taking knees. Knees. You can all catch a d, Hide your wife, hide your knees. How about you Kiko? Who has been your biggest influence? So obviously there's always a lot, right? But, big Ben definitely is one of'em especially starting out. He was, somebody had always, uh, he used to beat me up a lot, so now I beat him up. I just thrown out there, but you're catching up to him. Fernando. I know for sure Right. He has a different game. But yeah, even, Amir and Eric over at Claudio's when I started out with them. You know, just you pick up something from everybody. That's right. Right. And it's, as long as it's something that clicks what you're doing or working on, then I think it influences you. No matter where it comes from. So yeah, that's, those are the people that I think, and Caio obviously too. Getting trained over there for about six years and started playing a little bit of de la riva. Instead of playing clothes card all the time. So just a little. My knees hurt. Alright guys, well thank you for taking this time to visit me and come on the podcast. So I look forward to maybe in the future, being able to, interview each one of you individually. Shout out. Thank you for doing everything that you welcome, appreciate you. Welcome. Take care guys. Thank you. Awesome. Bye.