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QCP #024 | Martin Jay Ruiz | Roll, Fall, Get Up: The Way of Wrestling and Skating
GUEST BIO
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.
EPISODE NOTES
- Segment 1
- brush with a murderer
- boneless skate move
- Dealing with anxiety and depression through wrestling and skating
- Dolores Park Hill Bombing
- undefeated as a senior
- handling losses
- Collegiate vs High School Wrestling
- the power of repetition
- “cleansing yourself”
- coaching high schoolers
- where did you learn how to restructure goals?
- how do you deal with when your best is not enough?
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By thequakecityportalGUEST BIO
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.
EPISODE NOTES
- Segment 1
- brush with a murderer
- boneless skate move
- Dealing with anxiety and depression through wrestling and skating
- Dolores Park Hill Bombing
- undefeated as a senior
- handling losses
- Collegiate vs High School Wrestling
- the power of repetition
- “cleansing yourself”
- coaching high schoolers
- where did you learn how to restructure goals?
- how do you deal with when your best is not enough?