My name is Emilia Hernandez.
I train out of Tennessee Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy based out of Spring Hill, TN.
My head instructor is Ray Casillas.
I've been training under him for about 8 years now.
I started when I was 14.
You need to make this decision here, right?
One is I don't want him to go back flat.
You think back flat, he wins.
When I first came into the store, everybody treated me like they knew me for multiple years.
They all, you know, welcomed me with open arms.
I try to follow in his and raise footsteps of this is a family atmosphere.
We need to treat everybody like, you know, they're part of the family, make them feel comfortable, make them feel welcome.
He has asked me to start helping him teach, and that's kind of where I started.
All right, so I'm going to get here.
I step out, reach, and at the same time, I don't want to keep my leg trapped here to kick it over.
All right, When it comes down to teaching, you have to be very precise with the movements.
You have to be very on point with the positioning.
But honestly it helped me really with my jiu jitsu because it sharpened up my techniques.
My nickname is Scramble King.
I got that from the way I compete.
I'm very big about scrambling out of positions and being very mobile when I'm rolling.
I do like to, you know, work from the standing position and then, you know, getting the dominant position on top.
But I would like to say a lot of my style does have to do with a lot of like moving, moving pretty quickly, but also just scrambling out of different positions.
My overall goal in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is to become a black belt world champion.
When it comes down to competing or motivating me to come in every day, guys, like it does come back to the fact that I do enjoy the whole learning aspect.
Like there's always something new, there's always something different to learn.