5th week

This week and last week we learned all about interviews. Although we knew just a little bit about them we knew that you have to dress appropriate be assertive and know your stuff. On Tuesday May 14, 2013 at 5:40 we met up with our mentor Nick Jordan at Reign training center. We interviewed him and he was cool with us recording the coversation and using it for school purposes.
Nick Jordan was a division one wrestler in college. Wrestled up in Sacramento but went to school down here at cal state university of Fullerton. Also learning at reign he took up mma and now he's a professional fighter working to be in the UFC. While also being a wrestling coach at mission and working at a restaurant in Dana point his professional record is currently 1-1. With a fight coming up on the thirty first of this month.

Me: So what got you into wrestling?

Nick: Well i was freshman in highschool and i saw these group of kids sweating and i thought to my self wow this is harder than football. So the next day i went and talked to them and they told me to join.

Me: Were you a decent wrestler or very elite?

Nick: Uhm to be honest you know when you start trying something new you're not good at it. Well i completly sucked at wrestling until i met Mark Muños a former UFC fighter.

Me: Was it a good thing meeting Mark Muños?

Nick: All i gotta say is from the day i met him when i was a junior in high school i was a whole new different person. I was a new me. I new how to wrestle very very good i was winming 1st place everytime and nlw that I am a coach i feel determined to help kids with wrestling just how i got helped.

Me: What made you try out Mix Martial Arts?

Nick: At the time when i was a junior and barely got to know Mark he introduced me to this world of kicking and grappling. I though to myself wow this is just amazing. One day he invited me to his house because he had ordered a UFC PPV and from that day forward MMA inspired me.

Me: What made you go pro?

Nick: What made me go pro was just dreaming one day to actually participate in the UFC with Dana White. I just cant wait one day to get that phone call from the President of the UFC, Dana White telling me that he wants me in his company.