Latest ADCC West Coast Trials champion Jasmine Rocha is hungry for a rematch with Ffion Davies at ADCC 2024.
On the 2024 ADCC West Coast Trials, Jasmine Rocha punched her ticket to the large present with one of the vital spectacular Trials performances in latest reminiscence.
With victories over the likes of younger phenom Trinity Pun, multiple-time IBJJF world champion Tammi Musumeci, and present IBJJF no-gi world champion Alex Enriquez, Rocha solidified her standing as one of many planet’s prime 55 kg grapplers.
The 22-year-old black belt not too long ago spoke to Grappling Insider about her run by the West Coast Trials, potential opponents and rematches on the 2024 ADCC World Championships, in addition to her upcoming Who’s Quantity One match in opposition to Emily Fereira.
Take a look at the complete interview with Jasmine Rocha beneath.
After making it to the rostrum of a number of earlier Trials tournaments – together with the Sao Paulo Trials simply two weeks previous to the West Coast Trials – Rocha’s gold medal efficiency was a testomony to her perseverance.
She credit an important shift in her mindset, with the assistance of psychological efficiency coach Sam Antonen, as key to her competitors success:
“The mindset of getting to win. Anyone with a final title like mine, most likely has that ‘I’ve to win’ mentality. I’ve to go as much as that legacy, attain that potential. It’s including strain that you just don’t want.
“So that you begin to repair little issues that you just inform your self. The having to win – change it to desirous to win. It completely modifications your mindset. There’s simply so many little issues that he’s helped me change in my mindset, that individuals don’t understand that you just inform your self that aren’t useful, however when you get that mindset in you, man, no person can beat you.”
Rocha can now stay up for a talent-laden 55kg division at ADCC 2024. Of the rivals at the moment certified for the occasion, three athletes – Anna Rodrigues, Ffion Davies, and Mayssa Bastos – personal victories over Rochas.
Understandably, she’s excited for an opportunity at redemption:
“Clearly, my receipts, I’d prefer to get all these again. There’s an excellent quantity in that division… Whether or not it’s a rematch between me and Ffion, I do know all people desires to see that. I need that one, too. Whether or not it’s one other rematch between me and Mayssa, perhaps. That might be cool. Or perhaps a brand new match, perhaps me and Margot [Ciccarelli] or perhaps even, I believe Adele [Fornarino] will most likely win the Trials, so most likely Adele, too. So I believe it doesn’t matter what occurs at ADCC 2024, the 55-kilo division, first spherical, are bangers… Each matchup is gonna be absolute fireworks. Bianca Basilio can be one other matchup. We haven’t fought… Anyone who’s in entrance of me is gonna have a tough day.”
Past potential rematches, Rocha is especially trying ahead to a potential conflict with 2015 ADCC world champion Mackenzie Dern.
She defined:
“I undoubtedly suppose that Mackenzie Dern being in that division is rather like an honor. I might love that combat. I don’t care, first spherical, give it to me. I bear in mind watching Mackenzie as a child and going ‘I wish to be like her.’ I bear in mind rising up watching her and going ‘wow, I can’t wait to do this.’ And to not point out she’s a daughter of a legend… I used to have that strain, that weight on my chest, I gotta carry out. I bear in mind listening to a narrative that again within the outdated days, it was Megaton’s daughter. These days, it’s Mackenzie Dern’s dad. The angle modifications while you have a look at it like that. She units an incredible instance and I believe she’s a tremendous jiu-jitsu athlete, and he or she’s finished a lot within the UFC now too, and that’s a tremendous combat that I might stay up for.”
Maybe greater than every other potential matchup at ADCC 2024, Rocha most desires a rematch with reigning ADCC champion Ffion Davies – a lady widely known as the game’s prime pound-for-pound competitor.
Rocha and Davies squared off final August at Who’s Quantity One (WNO). Within the lead-up, Rocha created loads of buzz round that match, calling out Davies for her “primary knee minimize.”
In the end, although, Davies would safe a dominant decision victory to retain her WNO title.
Undeterred, Rocha seems ahead to a rematch at ADCC and thinks it might play out otherwise:
“I believe I revered her an excessive amount of once I fought her at Who’s Quantity One. There was clearly plenty of strain for that combat. A title combat… talked my shit, however I believe it’s gonna be a lot totally different.
“I’m gonna be way more aggressive. I additionally suppose with the load class it’s gonna be a lot totally different, she’s gonna be a little bit bit smaller so I believe that can also be gonna play an enormous benefit into this. And it’s additionally ADCC guidelines so it’s gonna be very arduous for her to have the ability to rating on me. I believe it’s gonna be a tremendous combat. I believe everybody goes to wish to see that.”
After her loss to Davies, Rocha obtained her justifiable share of flak for her pre-match feedback. She says she’s nonetheless listening to criticism, however it doesn’t concern her within the least.
In response to Rocha, her feedback drew further consideration to the match, which, she says, is her job when competing on a present like WNO:
“I’m nonetheless getting s*** for that. Haters are gonna hate, however it doesn’t actually matter to me. My job once I signal a contract, particularly a Who’s Quantity One combat – lots of people suppose it’s simply to go on the market and win a combat. It’s not. Once you signal a contract for a combat like that your job is to carry out and produce eyes. I did that. I don’t suppose there’s ever been a Who’s Quantity One ladies’s match anyone’s watched greater than mine and Ffion’s. That speaks volumes. I undoubtedly do nonetheless get plenty of hate and suggestions from the entire ‘primary knee-cut,’ however who cares? It actually doesn’t matter. It’s her finest transfer. I actually simply known as her out on her finest transfer. That’s it. If I didn’t say something, no person would have watched.”
