Episode 10. Running a Gracie CTC & Longevity on the Mats
The conversation
About Jeff Martinez.
Jeff Martinez sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 10, “Running a Gracie CTC & Longevity on the Mats”.
Jeff is a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu instructor who runs a school in California. He and Nick went through the Gracie University Instructor Certification Program together in January 2020, right before the world shut down.
He had earned his blue belt years earlier at the original Gracie Academy. To get into the certification program, he worked with Steve Walker in Santa Cruz to sharpen his technique and spent two months focused on the material.
Jeff talks about how the mat helps him set everything else aside, the weight of responsibility that comes with teaching, and why he plans to keep training well into his nineties.
“That was right before the world shut down”
From the episode
- When you step on the mat, everything else can wait.
- Don't leave your family behind on your journey.
- There's no rush. Train for the long run.
- Discipline
- Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
- Location
- California
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