Koffee Krew Unite with Jeff and Danny

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So what do you think about thiscoffee crew?

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Open mat, Koffee Krew is great.
I've known, Kiko for a long timeand I like, it's good to see him
starting to expand this programand, this Sunday gathering and
this is pretty massive.
Yeah, I mean, gather 200 pluspeople, so it's pretty nice.
Show up.
How about you?
Yeah, this is a great event.
I've only recently beenintroduced to the Koffee Krew, I
gotta say I've been coming outto it for about a month.

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It's great to just train withnew people, different body
types, different styles.
It's been wonderful.
So tell me a little bit aboutyourself, your name and what
school you go to.
Yeah, I'll go first.
Yeah.
My name's Jeff.
I originally started doing jiujitsu up in Canada and for the
last, oh, 14, 15 years now, I'vebeen, with Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu

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under Matt Darcy and DaveCamarillo.
Nice.
My name is Danny Tran and I'mpart of One World jiu jitsu in
Newark, California, and, beendoing it since 2009.
So being just, you know, it'sone of those things, it's a
marathon, you just keep showingup.
You don't realize how muchbetter 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 thefirst place?

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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 mystuff together, Cleaning out my,
my, my walkway through life andjiu jitsu was one of the biggest
things that, made it happen.
It's, uh, you know, still notperfect, but, it just keep me on
the narrow path of, being on theroad doing better stuff for
myself.
Cool.
How about you?
Yeah, so I've always been doingmartial arts as a kid.

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It was karate later it turnedinto, Thai boxing.
Yeah.
Had a bit of a amateur career upin Canada.
And, by the time I was 25, Ijust, was getting tired of
getting hit in the face.
And, there you go.
They're in disguise in likepajamas doing stuff that I had
never seen before.
And, I gave it a try and I washooked.
Yeah, that's what jiu jitsu willdo man, once you get, humbled,

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you're like, okay, this is it.
And, it's a whole differentgame.
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 agood training partner?
I think there's certain levelsof, when you go through the
years of training, you start torealize what makes a good
training partner and basicallydown to, everyone says it

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spazzyness, and being consciousof your surroundings and your
training partner and making surethat 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, firstthing you don't want to do is
always grip on anything,especially in training and open
mats especially, you gotta bevery courteous and, gradually go
into any type of submission thatyou do to, just to make sure

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that you give your trainingpartner a chance to escape
because that's what you're herefor to learn how to get into a
position and giving your,training partner an opportunity
to get position.
Without you're not reallylearning anything, you're just
trying to lift each other'sheads off.
True.
I agree.
One a hundred percent.
We all have to go to work thenext day.
Yep.
And even if you're going againstsomeone who's, a lower rank.
There's always something thatyou can work on.

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You can work on yourfundamentals, your basics.
You can always take somethingfrom that.
Correct.
Yeah.
I think learning and get in andget out of positions, bad
positions, good positions is thefoundation of good training.
It's leave the egos away, andsometimes 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 alwaysabout making sure that no one
gets hurt.
And take your ego out of it.

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Yep.
There's no ego training.
Definitely.
Definitely.
So what do you think was yourhardest belt?
Because you're black belt.
Yeah.
And you are a brown belt.
I am, I'm gonna say purple wasgrittiest.
Yeah.
It's that stage where you know adecent amount and then it's the
point where it separates highand mediocre, purple belt for me
was the grittiest.
And, once I got towards the endof it, I started to really

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develop a game and I got a lotbetter.
But right at purple was reallytough because I was unsure of a
lot of things I did.
Yeah.
And I had to refine and still alot of it.
And so I was still gettingcaught in things I shouldn't
have been.
But once I got a little bitpassion, 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 ofjiu jitsu was learning what not
to do.
Yeah.
Correct.
You leave your ego out the door,you get it checked often.

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And, just overcoming, gettingtapped and then learning how to
tap and how to get out ofpositions 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 hereand hear about your childhood
through adulthood.
Okay.
Alright, so turn off to OneWorld, jiu jitsu.
Newark California?
Stop by train.
Okay.
Guerrilla jiu jitsu, San Jose,California.

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Thank you.