Koffee Krew Unite with Jeff and Kirby

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You gotta talk closer.

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It's like last night.
You deep throat that thing orwhat?
Yeah, just like last night.
Let it touch your lips a little.
Okay.
Introduce yourselves.
I just don't like the we stuffon it.
Just right there.
Yeah.
Just closer.
My name is Jeff Robbins.
I train at the BJJ Society inGilroy under Jerry Cazarez.
Go ahead, Mike.
Oh.
My name is Mike Kirby fromSolidarity Jiu Jitsu, in the

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Caio Terra Association.
So Kirby, tell us what we'redoing here today.
We're having Kiko's Bay Areaopen mat at Santa.
Clara University.
It's way too early on a Sundayfor me, but there's probably a
few hundred people in there.
Yeah, it's packed.
I don't get out of bed earlyexcept for Kiko.

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I hardly ever get outta bed toget my butt beat up, that's for
sure.
You're from Gilroy?
Yes.
Okay.
So how old were you when youstarted jiu jitsu?
47.
Nice.
I'm 60 now.
What challenges have you hadwith jiu jitsu?
Everything you can imagine,right?
Just constantly.
You feel like at that age youfeel like you're getting beat up
pretty good.

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After a while your body getshard into it, so it just kind of
goes away.
Yeah, it's just probably thesame thing that most people go
through.
A lot of small injuries thatjust kind of sideline you for a
minute, but you just kind ofkeep on going.
What has been the positiveaspects of jiu jitsu?
In your life?
God, there's a ton of reallygood things that jiu jitsu
offers, right?
So high self-confidence, theability to work your way through

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things that you would notnormally want to do.
Meeting really good people.
That's a really good thing aboutjiu jitsu is there's, the crowd
generally tends to be reallygood 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 beendoing jiu jitsu?
24, 22, 23 years.

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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 Francafrom most of my jiu jitsu career
until about 20 13, 20 14.
I got my brown belt in 2012.

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Okay.
Do you wanna talk aboutSolidarity for a bit?
Sure.
We started Solidarity jiu jitsuabout two years ago.
My main motivation for it was Icouldn't find a location that
kind of met the vibe I waslooking for.
I think a lot of jiu jitsustarted becoming too serious.
A little too political.
We pay tuitions in theory.
Right.

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It's like going to any othergym.
We should get something inreturn.
Correct.
And I think there's too much ofthis social expectation of blind
loyalty, if you will.
Okay.
And so I think, and then a lackof, you know, we still have some
traditions, right?
The gi, bow in before class, butthere was a little too much of
it in BJJ, I think.
And Solidarity bringing is therea pretty good vibe for you?

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I like to think so.
It's a friendly environment.
It's a pretty welcomingenvironment.
We like to keep the gym superclean.
That's kind of important to me.
Everybody's welcome.
Kind of an open door policy.
Yeah.
I've trained there a few timesand 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?

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Something like that?
Two or four years ago?
Yeah.
It's a smaller dojo, mainlywhite 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 ofreally good students who are
really interested in not onlyjiu jitsu, but having good
friendships also.
Great.
Yeah, that's, like I saidbefore, that's the biggest thing

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about jiu jitsu is that youreally meet some good people and
get some good friendships to goalong with it.
Yeah, I agree with that.
That's where I met Mike at.
Yeah, we both came from ClaudioFranca 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 aphoto going here in the
background, so if you guys liketo join that, go for it.

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Alright, thanks luckee thanksman.
Take care guys.
Ok bye.