“Judo is passion, discipline and intelligence”, as described by Andrés Martínez, who has been one of the initiators of Judo in Parral and the only Parralense who has won the State Sports Award as a coach. His career spans more than 48 years. For this athlete, his greatest satisfaction is having formed great national champions, among which Vanessa Zambotti stands out, who has represented Mexico as a judoka in four Olympic Games.
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Andrés Martínez, is a renowned judoka from Parral who has dedicated a large part of his life to this sport, instilling as a coach in childhood and youth the love of one of the most recognized martial arts in Japan, achieving considerable professional success on a personal level. and with the students.
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Professor Martínez is a simple and disciplined person in his personal life, he pointed out that it has been four decades of training great athletes who have excelled in this sport, he began to practice judo since he was 12 years old, in the gym on Chamizal, in Ciudad Juárez, thanks to the fact that his brother Arturo Martínez attended this gym.
He recounts that it was in the year 1976 when they began to promote the sport of judo in Parral, with the opening of a center called Club Oriental on Juárez street, together with Professor Lalo Guerrero, who is the initiator of Judo in Parral, he recalls that this club was made with wooden rooms and the Tatami of sawdust, he considered that his fondness for judo was because he liked wrestling and it is very similar to judo.
He recounted that his first tournament came in second place, beating athletes from the states of Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Chihuahua, Mexico, still being a white belt, when his opponents had already obtained the blue belts. He indicated that Víctor García is one of the founders of Judo in the city and it was he who started the Kan Parral Judo Club in 1982 and that is how he began his judoka career at the age of 18.
Professor Martínez has competed in regional and state tournaments, later he was called by Octavio Silva as a coach, he remembers that he began to teach 8 children, having as students great outstanding athletes in this sport such as: Francisco Javier “Panky” Arellanes, Eduardo Luján, Salvador Andrade, Sergio Cárdenas, Jesús Callas, the Chávez Lazcano brothers, Paúl Martínez and Ricardo Gutiérrez.
On the other hand, he indicated that he took his coaching exam at the Mexican Judo Federation in Mexico City, in 1988, from then on he was taking courses worldwide from 1988 to 1990, in Cuba and in the United States. The United States, in his career as a coach, trained figures such as Vanessa Zambotti, who has represented Mexico in judo in four Olympic Games, Jorge “El Toro” Medina, Amín Corral, Luis Alberto Delgado, Jesús Manuel Ortiz, Humberto Saldívar, Estefanía Arras and Luis Rubio, among others.
The coach commented that all these judokas received scholarships from CONADE and universities, such as the Monterrey Technological Institute of Higher Studies, the University of Guadalajara, the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, the University of Ciudad Juárez and the University of Sonora, where all of them They began as children in this sport.
In a modest way I continue by saying that he is currently 60 years old, of which he has dedicated 48 of them to this sport, among other champions that he has come to train are Emeterio Aguirre, Andrés Martínez Jr., Karla Beltrán, Pandra Rodríguez, Jesús Torres, Among others, he currently has his gym on Pedro T. Gómez street, since 1982, of which there are already 48 years of service to the sport.
He also commented that as a coach he has been in Cuba, the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Brazil, in addition to attending the first Youth Games in Moscow, Russia, likewise Professor Martínez has been the only Parralense in winning the 2007 State Sports Award, as a coach, since as an athlete it has been won by Vanessa Zambotti, Misael “El Chino” Rodríguez and the soccer player Adrián Mora.
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Finally, he pointed out that, for him, Judo is a way of life, which has kept him active, both physically and mentally, he has had a professional development that has allowed him to create an entire institution within the sport, this with the purpose of create good men and women. He added: “Judo is passion, discipline and intelligence”, since it is not required to be the strongest opponent, but it is a sport of intelligence to beat the opponent.
2023-06-23 11:34:11
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