Koffee Krew Unite with Mauricio, Sanjana and Marina

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Tell me your name and whatschool you go to.

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I'm Sanjana Chund.
I go to Alonso Academy with thishandsome gentleman right here.
Okay.
Who's your professor?
Mauricio Alonso.
Mauricio?
Yes.
I'm Mauricio Alonso, founder ofAlonso Academy, and our school
is in Newark in the Bay Area.
Okay.
How long have you had thatschool?
12 years No.

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2011 I started to work inCalifornia.
Okay.
When I moved from Brazil tohere.
Okay.
Long time.
So you grew up in Brazil?
I grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Nice.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
Okay.
And introduce yourself.
Hi, I am Marina Malimba and I'ma student under Mauricio Great.
And so you're a purple belt?
Yeah, we're purple belt underMauricio and we're also

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representing Need to BelieveFoundation.
Okay.
Tell me about your foundation.
So the foundation is a nonprofitorganization.
We found in 2018, that work withkids with special needs.
Oh, great.
So we attend kids with autism,Mr.
Pal, with Down syndrome and allkind of disabilities that kids

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can have.
We accept all them and with muchlove.
Okay, good.
That's awesome.
What was your hardest belt,going through the four that
you've gone through so far?
I would say white belt.
Just sticking to it.
Yeah.
Just getting started.
Yes.
Yes.
So what did you find hard aboutit?
I think that it was definitely alearning curve and just getting

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my butt kicked every day, butjust sticking to it because it
was hard.
It was a mental game for sure.
Okay.
And, how about you when youfirst started, how old were you?
Almost 17, 19 97.
Long time ago.
Uh, San Paulo.
Yeah.
And who was your, sensei?
Ryan Grayson.
Very nice.
Yeah.
So how was it, learning underhim?

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Intense.
Very intense.
Yeah.
So tell us about something thatwas really intense about the
training.
So, back in the days, the coachwas a little different than
today.
Okay.
Right.
Most likely you would just betraining with your teammates at
your gym.
There was no cross trainingbefore.
Okay.
Really rare.

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Someone go to another gym orhave an open mat like this.
And people from different teamsparticipated together.
That was a very big differencefrom now to back in the days and
as a group in Sao Paulo was away more aggressive environment.
Okay.
The culture was different.
There was a lot of more fightinginvolved.
The glamor of being a worldchampion on jiu jitsu and all

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this Instagram world or socialmedia that didn't exist back
then.
Right, right.
So the goal was to train andprove that your gym was the best
gym.
So it was very competitive.
Okay.
Now, back in the days when you,like I was talking with a friend
here today and I said, you onlygo to jiu jitsu Academy back in

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the days.
You was already a person, moreaggressive person or have a more
aggressive approach in life,let's say like that.
You know, nowadays you used toexpand a lot and it's reaching
people that probably back in thedays, we never stepped the foot
on the mat.
That is the real purpose of jiujitsu help the people that
really needs, you know, that's,I think it's an evolution of it.

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Yeah, absolutely.
What has been your biggestchallenge in jiu jitsu as being
a woman?
Oh gosh.
I think finding other women whoare also comfortable with it.
So we've actually, we've triedreally hard to make a space for
women at our gym.
we have a standing women's classevery Sunday at 2:00 PM I don't

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know, it's just part of it isovercoming my own discomfort
with certain men, their size.
can be a little intimidating.
I'm also kind of a germophobe,so I have to get over the whole
like everyone's sweats on you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a big one.
Yeah.
yeah.
The things for a women is one ofthat sweaty thing is the what
most bothers them.

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Sweaty thing too.
I think a lot of men try not toroll with women too, because
they don't wanna have to becareful or gentle or careful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you expect them in to becareful with you or do you want
them to come on right,absolutely.
I'm the same way.
I want the guys to turn it up.
Yep.
How about you?
Yeah.

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With Marina, the guys have to becareful with her.
She is tough.
She'll beat the up.
She's an assassin.
She is an assassin.
I don't want them to treat womenany different.
Absolutely.
Bring it on.
Yeah, there you go.
How about you?
Yeah, I mean, bring it on aslong as I'm not injured.
Right, right.

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I'd like to thank you for comingon this little short interview
and maybe one of these days I'llhave each one of you
individually come on my podcastto share your childhood through
adulthood journey.
Awesome.
All the way through your jiujitsu and then whatever else you
wanna share in regards to youror school or whatever you wanna
promote.
Okay.
Pleasure.
This is for you guys.

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Thank you.
You're welcome.
Take care, guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye.
Thanks so much.