Episode 328 - CJI Producers Eddie Marquez and Todd Ferrante
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we talk to the producers of the Craig Jones Invitational, Eddie Marquez and Todd Ferrante. Eddie is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt and event producer and Todd is the senior producer of Karate Combat and has produced other events such as The X-Games.
On this episode, Eddie and Todd discuss how they got involved working with Craig Jones and producing the CJI, how they made adjustments to the CJI on the fly, the challenges of producing a Jiu-Jitsu event, the difficulty of setting up “The Alley,” changes they made from day 1 to day 2 of the CJI, their plans to improve the event, their proudest moments, their goals of working with the Fair Fight Foundation, the biggest challenges to making Jiu-Jitsu events viewer friendly, Ideas for CJI #2 and the future of grappling, and favorite memory from the CJI.
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| 0:00.0 | What up guys? Welcome to the Chichitsu podcast episode 328. Today we have with us, the producers from the C.J.I, the Craig Jones Invitational. So I was talking to Mark one of their assistants who, you know, had watched one of my videos and he was, you know, saying, hey, man, I would love to get these guys in contact with you to have them on the show to kind of talk about what was going on with it. |
| 0:21.9 | Because, you know, one of the things that, you know, for me, I think everybody was not sure what was going to happen with the Craig Jones Invitational, but the time free streams are pretty janky, you know, but they knocked it out of the park. |
| 0:41.3 | They had a great stream. |
| 0:42.3 | They did a really great job with production. |
| 0:45.3 | And so they did a great job. |
| 0:46.3 | And so we wanted to talk with them to get more details of the, you know, the behind the scenes stuff of, you know, the stuff stuff that worked the stuff that didn't work and the |
| 0:54.7 | whole lead up of it and uh you know it's interesting because we're going to talk to these two different |
| 0:58.7 | guys eddie uh and todd and eddie is a jihitsu black belt yep and he's a jihitsu black belt he trains |
| 1:05.1 | you know he worked if you guys will talk more about this than a bit but he worked in the old |
| 1:08.3 | metamora show yeah which if you guys are, you know, been in Jiu Jitsu long enough, then you remember that show and it had a great production quality to it. |
| 1:14.9 | And Todd, you know, he does different things with things like karate combat. |
| 1:18.1 | And so, you know, it was these two guys who had known each other for a long time. |
| 1:21.0 | They come together on this project and they did a really great job with producing it. So we're going to talk to them about all of that. And I hope that you guys enjoy it. |
| 1:29.4 | And you, especially if you watch the CGI and you enjoyed the stream and you enjoyed |
| 1:32.8 | the broadcast. |
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