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The Chewjitsu Podcast

1 Year Of The Chewjitsu Opens With BJJ Black Belt Jeff Alexander (Episode 353)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Wellness, Brazilianjiujitsu, Sports, Interviews, Mma, Bjj, Health, Chewjitsu, Injuryprevention

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by BJJ Black Belt and Tournament Director of The Chewjitsu Open, Jeff Alexander.

Chewy and Jeff discuss the idea behind The Chewjitsu Open, what happened during the first ever Chewjitsu Open, the recipe that's made The Chewjitsu Open successful, why it's more difficult to get brown and black belts to compete, Chewy’s most nerve-racking tournament experience, the biggest lesson learned form running the Chewjitsu Opens, biggest changes and challenges of running the tournaments, the mission behind the Chewjitsu Open, and what sets the Chewjitsu Open apart from other tournaments.

If you are interested in competing in the next Chewjitsu Open, head over to https://chewjitsu.nuwaycombat.com/ to learn more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up guys? Welcome to the Chichitsu podcast. Today we have a episode where I'm talking with Eugene

0:05.8

and my partner in the Chichitsu Open competition, Jeff. We had them on last year around the same

0:12.8

time after the Louisville competition. And we've been doing it a year now across the country. And so we

0:19.3

wanted to kind of catch up and talk about it.

0:21.3

And so we'll go into the competition, you know, talking about running the competition,

0:24.8

some of that stuff.

0:25.8

And we'll give you some ideas.

0:27.3

We'll also talk about one of the things I thought was real interesting was Jeff's, like,

0:33.4

warm up.

0:35.5

We'll say it that way.

0:36.9

His war is where. Maybe. Well, yeah. that surprised me because usually it's like the complete opposite for most people.

0:43.8

But his warm up, if you want to call it that, how interesting that is, because that sort of took for him, he's a person that gets into his head.

0:50.6

He said he gets real nervous before matches, but this sort of fixed that.

0:53.6

So that was kind of interesting to me. So we'll get into that. And again, this episode will cover a lot of

0:58.4

the Choo Jiu Jitsu Open. By the way, if you guys are interested in competing with us at the

1:02.5

Chiu Jitsu Open, check us out. You can go to our website. You can just Google search, Shih Tzu, Open, you'll find our dates. We've got Chicago coming up soon.

1:11.1

We'll have some other places in Michigan elsewhere.

1:13.6

So again, if you guys want to join us, we'd love to have you out there.

1:15.4

But again, big thanks to our sponsors for helping make this podcast happen.

1:19.6

Grapple Science.

1:20.7

Grapple Science is a company that originally was created by a couple of blackbelts who used

1:27.1

to work for, and help found the company

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