Koffee Krew Unite with Kiko, Jenny and Ray

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What do you think about this bigopen mat?

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I think it's pretty fun.
I haven't gotten to roll, beenwalking around and checking, but
it's it's more than I expected.
I think next time Kiko, you'regonna have to have a much larger
spot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Double more, more, more mats.
I see Kiko sweating, but it'snot from the jiu jitsu, guys are
running around.
Making sure everything's runningsmooth.
Yeah, it's been great.
It's like always gettingtogether.

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See family second, familyreunion and then meeting new
people too.
Meeting new hungry purple beltsthat 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 outof, Caio Terra Academy in San

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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 longtime.

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I lost count.
Have a background in wrestling,a little bit of judo, but I'm at
Solidarity.
Been there for the last year anda 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 outlong time ago and to see today
is just humbling and amazing tosee like all the things come

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together.
I was talking with Bam and it'sjust, remember when it was like
maybe trying to get a mat fullSunday mornings and now it's
like there's not enough spacefor hundreds of people.
It's a beautiful thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kiko.
You've been planning this for awhile, correct?
It's been a thought for a longtime.
The planning started a couplemonths ago, but it's been slow
and trying to get people, notnecessarily on board, but get

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everything in place.
Right.
Organized.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The venue switched a coupletimes 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 jiujitsu the most?
I'd have to say my brother Greg.
My brother Greg's been a brownbelt under Claudio Franca for a

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long time, and the reason why Isay that is it's like the mental
training, like when we're on themats, it's be first, don't step
back, take two steps forwardthat idea of imposing my game
and back to the days of himdoing Chinese water torture on
me, or doing noogies, just beingphysical and just roughhousing,

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yes.
That plays into my jiu jitsu.
And of course, like my teachersalong the way.
Got a shout out, Caio and Vitor,for sure.
But I would say the biggestinfluence has been my brother
Greg.
It's so natural to me.
Into just like bang heads and dothat.
But jiu jitsu is not alwaysthat, right?
Jiu jitsu is more about beingtechnical at times, but I've

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learned that just my art, mystyle is just heavy.
And so, anytime I get away frommy truth, I can find myself in
trouble.
And so my brother Greg hasalways been the one to just,
post your game and play yourgame.
And that's, you gotta give him ashot.
Awesome.
Okay.
So how about you?
I think after training for solong, I would say every coach

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that I've trained with and underhas influenced, my jiu jitsu a
lot.
But I think for me, my husbandSebastian, has been my number
one, training partner, for themost part and been my rival, as
you can say, because I'm alwayson the mat trying to beat him
up.
That's my number one goal.
That's the goal.
I'm just getting into leg locksnow, so he better watch out his

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knees.
She's taking knees.
Knees.
You can all catch a d, Hide yourwife, hide your knees.
How about you Kiko?
Who has been your biggestinfluence?
So obviously there's always alot, right?
But, big Ben definitely is oneof'em especially starting out.
He was, somebody had always, uh,he used to beat me up a lot, so
now I beat him up.

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I just thrown out there, butyou're catching up to him.
Fernando.
I know for sure Right.
He has a different game.
But yeah, even, Amir and Ericover at Claudio's when I started
out with them.
You know, just you pick upsomething from everybody.
That's right.
Right.
And it's, as long as it'ssomething that clicks what
you're doing or working on, thenI think it influences you.
No matter where it comes from.

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So yeah, that's, those are thepeople that I think, and Caio
obviously too.
Getting trained over there forabout six years and started
playing a little bit of de lariva.
Instead of playing clothes cardall the time.
So just a little.
My knees hurt.
Alright guys, well thank you fortaking this time to visit me and
come on the podcast.

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So I look forward to maybe inthe future, being able to,
interview each one of youindividually.
Shout out.
Thank you for doing everythingthat you welcome, appreciate
you.
Welcome.
Take care guys.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Bye.