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QCP #028 | Sophia Cassella, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Athlete | The Inner Game of Training, How to Optimize Mat Time, and Life as a Student-Athlete

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Sophia Cassella is a 22-year-old brown belt from New Jersey, under Jason Rau. She’s trained with some of the greatest minds that helped change the sport today in what some people call the renaissance of Jiu Jitsu.

She commutes hours and hours every day from New Jersey to New York to train with some coaches and grapplers in the sport who are considered to be the best to ever coach and compete – John Danaher, Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonon, Renzo Gracie, and all of the greats that drop in there to train.

QCP #024 | Martin Jay Ruiz | Roll, Fall, Get Up: The Way of Wrestling and Skating

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Martin Jay Ruiz is someone that found his way on a skateboard and later on to the wrestling mat as a troubled youth. At an early age, he found the blank canvases of the skate deck and the wrestling mat to be the wide-open spaces that allowed his soul the room for infinite expansion. To this day, his heart never lost its passion for the two mediums.

He came from the streets of Santa Maria, California, pulled to the magnetic energy of San Francisco – a pilgrimage for skaters because of its steep, long, concrete hills that can send one bombing down a dance between weightlessness and death.

As a former collegiate wrestler for SF State, he became the wrestling coach for Lowell High School, one of the most prestigious public high schools in the United States. Under his tutelage, he’s coached both boys and girls to multiple state championships. Martin also coaches wrestling to adults at Fight Culture Gym in Daly City; he earned his Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is still an active competitor at thirty-three.

QCP #023 | Jake Luigi – Less Impressed, More Involved Youtube Channel | Leading with Curiosity and The Organized Meta Knowledge of Jiu-Jitsu

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JAKE’S LINKS:
Less Impressed, More Involved on Youtube
Instagram Page @shorthairedjake

Jake Luigi is the mind behind the Less Impressed, More Involved video blog on youtube. In less than a year, I saw his channel grow from a few hundred to well over seven and a half thousand subscribers. Some of his most popular videos have amassed sixty thousand views and continues to grow due to his cerebral, detailed, and cataloged approach to learning the art, the language, and the endless evolution of Jiu-Jitsu.

In a time that has never seen more opportunity than today for creative exploration and exchange of ideas, I hope that conversations like this one can give some insight into those that want to invest in themselves, their life’s work, and the most authentic expression of themselves to what I believe will be the future of designing a flexible lifestyle – in creating content for an open, and shared information economy.

QCP #018 | Franco Soriano, Ultra Runner | The Hundred Mile High and Lucky Survival Stories

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Franco Soriano is a Filipino American ultra runner. He started running ten years ago at the age of 40 and gravitated towards the adventure of ultra running. He runs for the love of it. As much as I wanted to uncover a story about grit and willpower, this conversation showed me that sometimes it just takes a stoic mindset, careful planning, and taking it easy to develop mental toughness. It’s all about the enjoyment and high you get when you cross the finish line. And then it’s on to the next.

I first met Franco searching for a community of Filipino Runners. As someone that loves to get out and run on the trail, I quickly saw that most trail runners are not people of color. For something so simple that brought beauty and self-actualization into my life, I couldn’t help but ask myself, why is that? Is it because we just haven’t been exposed? Is it conditioning to prioritize other things?

SOME OF FRANCO’S NOTABLE RACES

Tahoe Rim Trail 100
Hurt 100
Western States 100
Bad Water 135 miler
Leadville
Mt Whitney Summit (14k Elevation)
SF Northface Endurance Challenge – 50 miles

QCP #015 | The New Filipino American Folk Tales of Daly City Vol. 2 | Tudor Atienza

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A mushroom cloud – like the ones we would hopefully never have to see from a distance after a volcanic eruption or a nuclear explosion, is caused by the process scientifically described in the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI).

I don’t intend and am highly unqualified to describe in scientific detail what happens during an RTI. But my understanding (based on what I’ve found on the interwebs) uses the everyday example of what you see when trying to mix oil and water.