Koffee Krew Unite with Javier and Marcos

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Welcome to Lucky's podcast, So tell me your name and where you're from and your lineage. Okay. So So Marco Cruz from JG Academy Modesto. I'm under Javier Gomez Black belt. My name's Javier Gomez. I got my Black Belt from, uh, and I have the pleasure of training, JG, Modesto with Marcos and Brentwood with, my son Marco. That's great. Okay, so what'd you think about the coffee crew today? Pretty packed. Oh, it was amazing. Yeah, it was super good. I know. It was super good. Super good room. Yeah. We're gonna need a bigger spot next year, right? Yes, yes. Yes. So tell me about your school and, the service you provide for your students. Yeah. I ran the Brentwood School for, maybe about three to four years. We have kids classes from four years old to seven, and then seven, teenagers and then teenagers with adults too. Right now my son Marco Mendes is the head instructor out there. So if you guys are in the area, please go check it out. Get some good roll over there. We have a competition class every Wednesday for anybody that's interested in that. What other towns do you have? We have, schools in Tracy, Modesto, Lodi, Stockton. We have an affiliate in, south San Francisco, Manteca, Los Altos, Idaho. Yeah. Idaho. Oh, wow. So, yeah, everybody has amazing instructors, and if anybody's in those areas, please drop it. We're big and crosstraining. Sounds great. Tell me about your school. Well, yeah, me and my wife, Cody, Gabby, Domingo, we're running, JG Modesto. We have three classes a day. We have babies and then we have teenagers, big kids and adult class. It's not as any other academy. They run like lot of classes a day. We just run three classes a day. How long have you been open there? Two years. Two years. Right on. Let's get to some jiu jitsu questions. What's the hardest part about coaching? jiu jitsu? For me, they're kids. They're the hardest kids. I love it. I love it. But it is the hardest. Kids competing. Yeah, it's definitely fun, but it is a lot going on at the same time. They're just too hyper. Right? Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Challenging. You know, it's part of it. So that's why, we try to get the blue belts to teach the kids. We help out. But, to me that's the hardest part about teaching. We wanna make sure they learn and as much as they can, and we forget the little ones and they gotta play sometimes. I love teaching them when I get a chance. How about you? Yeah, I would say see kids competing. Kids competing and kids losing. Yeah. At competition. Okay. Don't know. That's the hardest. Take a loss and just crying. And they don't know how to control their emotions. How do you help'em through it? It's super hard. It's super hard. If it's a boy, I just stop crying if its a girl we give her a big hug. Not, it's not true. No. I mean, I think I just, I think just talking to him. Yeah, just like talking to me how you feel. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think about it? Do you know what was going on? Just don't worry about it. And a few more months we'll be back. Same place and stuff. Right. How about with adults? Adults stop crying. To be honest I don't care. You don't have any challenges, teaching adults? I don't feel like there's too many challenges. I think the main thing is when they're barely starting out as how to control themselves from not being too spazz or getting hurt trying to teach him like, Hey, slow it down a little bit. So one, you don't get hurt or you hurt your partner, and it's not nobody doing it on purpose, it's just you don't know. It's so different. Right. Yeah. So teach that I would say that's the hardest part. That's true, yeah, I would say that. What first drew you to jiu jitsu? Mine? My little brother that's physically bigger than me, we never fought mad, but we would play wrestle and he would just, he is quite a bit bigger than me. He would throw me around. So that's literally why I started jiu jitsu. I'm like, I can't let my little brother. Did that to me. So what town did you start in? Manteca. I started with, Jason Cortes. He still has a school out there in Lathrop. Okay. Cortes Martial Arts. What was your experience the first time you went in there? The first time. First time I got thrown pretty hard. Didn't come back for two weeks. Oh man. I was not gonna do it. I was like, you know what? Dang it, I cannot quit. So then I went back and stuck with it ever since. How about you? Well, as you guys can see my thick accent. My thick accent. I'm from Mexico, right. I started in, academy. The name of the academy is running by a friend of mine, Jonathan Chavez. He's like boxing, jiu jitsu. It's all mixed together. It's like MMA. There's a lot of really good fighter that came out of that school. But we tried jiu jitsu, but we didn't have a program. It's nothing like it's running a whole year round program. Yeah. And there's just jiu jitsu, It was just once in a while and I liked it and it was cool, but I don't know I never stick around. And then, I married my wife and then I'm moving and I was hella sad and I'm like, you need to do something right. Yeah. So then at that same school, I met this friend of mine, Ralph Vega he has his academy in Yuma Arizona. Yeah. Hell of a guy. I trained with him for six months. Stick to jiu jitsu. First time in my life, but I stick to anything. And, um, stick to it six months and then we move up here. I got a job up here in Tracy, California. So we moved from Arizona, California, and I start training with Cichinio at Ares. That's where I met Javi. Awesome. So what has jiu jitsu brought into your life? Javier? Oh man. The list is pretty much endless. My wife, closest friends, a stress reliever, physical, helps me keep my family together'cause everybody does it. My wife's a black belt. My son's a black belt, his girlfriend's a black belt. My 6-year-old is training, so. Right. Honestly, it just. It's cool. Just about everything. That's cool. Yeah. How about you Marcos? Oh man. Same thing. Family community is the glue for, yeah. Anything around me? I think if don't jiu jitsu you so I'll go insane. I go crazy. Yeah. I think we all would have, right? Oh yeah. For sure. But sometimes I just don't want to train. Don't wanna go. Our physical body, like no. Yes. Don't, don't do it. Don't, don't do it. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else you'd like to share on the podcast? I just wanna say thank you to Koffee Krew for putting these together and I saw a lot of people that I had not seen for a long time, so that, that was really cool. So just a big shout out to them and I hope they keep doing it. Yeah, sounds good. Thank you. so much. It was really good. Thank you. koffee krew. It was awesome. Huh? Was cool. Yeah. I wish I could have rolled, but next time. Okay. Sure. Somebody gotta work. Thank you so much for being on Luckee's podcast and I'll be putting these short clips out. Also I'll be putting on Spotify and all the other, channels. Nice. Awesome all guys. Take care guys. Bye.