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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 299 - How To Reinvent Your BJJ Game With BJJ Black Belt Jeff Alexander

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene are joined by BJJ black belt and former MMA fighter Jeff Alexander. Jeff also helps run "The Chewjitsu Open" and shares some details about the upcoming tournaments.

Jeff joins the podcast to discuss his start in MMA and taking his first fight without any formal training, the challenges of balancing family life and training, the start of 6 am BJJ classes and their importance in training, the most disciplined people in BJJ, making the most of your time, the advantages of starting in MMA and transitioning to BJJ, how and why Jeff started to change his BJJ game at Brown Belt, the process of adding new elements to your BJJ, how to make the most progress with limited time on the mats, the value and benefit of competition, dealing with competition nerves, the idea behind starting “The Chewjitsu Open” and the unique ruleset, what to expect at a Chewjitsu Seminar, and dealing with injuries as an older grappler.

If you want to learn more about "The Chewjitsu Open," you can register or learn more at https://chewjitsu.nuwaycombat.com/ and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chewjitsuopen/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up, guys. Welcome to another episode. I almost said edition, episode of the

0:04.4

Jiu-Jitsu podcast. Welcome to another edition to Masterpiece Theater.

0:08.0

Another episode of the Jiu-Jitsu podcast. Today we have one of the black belts that are

0:12.1

Jim, one of my students, Jeff, he's going to be helping me run, well, let me rephrase that.

0:17.7

He's really the mastermind as far as the day-to-day, sort of the actual running of the tournament.

0:22.8

He is the guy.

0:23.6

If you guys come to one of the jihitsu opens that we're going to be running, him and his wife are the ones that are going to be running the show, making sure that it's running smoothly, making sure that the match has happened on time.

0:33.6

You know, they're the ones running that.

0:34.7

Jeff is a, he's the one making that happen. So I wanted to, one, introduce him to you guys on the podcast.

0:40.2

We'll obviously talk about who he is, his grappling experience, stuff like that,

0:43.6

because he has some cool stories to share with you that could be useful to you.

0:46.5

But then also tell you about the Chichitsu Open competition that we have coming up.

0:50.3

And again, if you guys want to get more information on that, just check the links in my bio online.

0:54.9

Or you can go to there.

0:55.4

We have an Instagram for it now, Jiu-Jitsu Open competition.

0:59.2

And you can find us pretty easily.

1:00.9

We've got, I think, about, what is it, eight tournaments coming up this year that you guys can get in.

1:06.7

Maybe was it six or eight tournaments, Jeff?

1:08.9

We've got seven and we're still trying to schedule the

1:10.9

final one okay that's the one so so it's about seven tournaments right now may have eight

1:14.7

if you guys want to check it out so anyway that's that guys thanks for being here as always

1:18.6

thanks to our sponsors for helping make this podcast happen charles webcbcbd if you guys have never

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