Entrevista a Ruben Assmann...

Retomando nuestra actividad de reporteras, nos hemos decidido a salir de nuestras fronteras para realizar una pequeña entrevista online a un gran jiujitsuka y muy buen amigo que se ha prestado muy amablemente a ello. Os mostramos la entrevista original. Para traducirla sólo tenéis que traducir el blog con la aplicación que aparece en la columna de la derecha. ¡¡Que la disfrutéis!!

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1. How many years have you been practicing Jiu Jitsu? (¿Cuántos años llevas practicando Jiu Jitsu?)

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I started JJ short before my tenth birthday. When I was 11 I had my first competition outside my club, when I was 15 I got my black belt and competed at the national championship for the forst time.

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2. Just do Jiu Jitsu or have made other Martial Arts?

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At age 14 I started Judo and I did Karate for a few months when I was 19.
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3. How did you star to do Jiu Jitsu? Do you like as a child?
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My first teacher was Angelique Poort, she was World Championship Duo Women and 2nd of Europe in Fighting. I used to do football, but I liked JJ better so I stopped football.
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4. It takes years to compete, remember your first competition? What was it?

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My first competition was when I was 10. It was fighting in our club. I lost almost every mach but I liked it very much.
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5. Speaking of competition, what do you like best duo or fight?
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I like them both but I´m better in duo.

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6. What has been your best result in competition?

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In 2010 I became World Championship in Duo Mixed with Aarti Baran.

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7. Aarti Baran and you were the "relay" of Silvia Álvarez and Barry van Bommel, did you feel pressure again?
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I always had to compete with Barry van Bommel. He was numer 1 in duo men, mixed and fighting 77kg. All categories I compete as well.

In 2006, Samir Ouladlaali and I had won the final of the national championship from Barry van Bommel and Ron Soechit after 3 extra series. In that same year Aarti and I almost won twice against Silvia Álvarez and Barry. So we were close.

I did not feel real pressure. I just like to compete and I knew that if we would keep training hard, one day we would win, and now in 2010 we won gold.
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8. For the some pictures that we have seen, you teach children, right? What was the experience?
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Well, in my club Bert Van Haren is the boss. He has been the coach of our national team since 1993, 17 years. Barry van Bommel was a trainer in my club as well, but when he left I started to train the children.

I have been training children since I was 15. In 2005 and 2006 I got my teaching diploma's from our federation.

It is a great thing to do. Helping children have self-confidence, have fun or even become a champion someday. As a teacher/trainer I still learn every day.

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9. Jiu Jitsu in The Netherland, is a sport know and recognized? I men, when you say you practice Jiu Jitsu, do people know what it in?
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In The Netherland nodoby knows what is. The most famous sports here are football or hockey. Other sports everyone plays are horse-riding or ice-skating. They are all Olympic sports. When it comes to martial arts people only lnow Judo or Kickboxing. The Netherland have great judo-athletes and kickboxers. Ju Jitsu is no Olympic sport so people don´t know it. In The Netherland are a lot of martial arts and the Dutch are good at it, but only in the world of the sport it self it is know, not outside the sport. It is a shame people in our country don´t know a legend like Rob Haans!
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10. Just won a gold medal at he World Championship, how does it feel?

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This is what I worked for and dreamed of. For the first time they played the national anthem for us, that was great. But still I am the same person and life goes on. There was a very small picture of me in the local newspaper. So again it is not recognized to a great public.

All the children I train and my family are really proud. After the competition in Russia athletes came to me and told me I deserved it and that were happy for me. That was a nice moment.

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11. Regardless of sport, you know something in Spanish?
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Uuuh, you want me to speak Spanish. Ok. Olah, somos estas? Muy bien. Dos cervezas por favor. Vamos a la playa. Buenas noches, quiero besarte bajo la luz de la luna.

Que si, que no, que nunca te decides, yo sé que tú me quiere y no me lo dices.
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12. Something you like in Spain...
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The beach, warm sunny weather, football, girls with black hair and brown eyes, big cities, Madrid and Barcelona.
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13. Finally, telll me a thought something you want to do in the future, what is your next goal or whatever you want.

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I want to become World Championship 2012 in Duo men with Johan de Gier and win medals at European Championships in 2011. And I want to go to the World Games in 2013 in Columbia. I finished university so now I´m looking for a nice job.

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Desde la administración de este blog y la dirección de nuestro Club, creemos que es una entrevista más que interesante; no sólo por haber entrevistado a un gran competidor como es Ruben Assmann sino también por el compromiso y la sinceridad que han demostrado sus respuestas. Os animamos a dejar alguna pregunta hacia él como comentario y, así, dejar esta entrevista abierta.

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Gracias a Ruben por su atención y amabilidad

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