I’m Paying You A Service – I Don’t Owe You Sh*t

ADCC bronze medalist Dan Manasoiu is making waves with his unfiltered take on instructor entitlement.

He recently spoke out on what he sees as problematic power dynamics between instructors and students:

Too many Jiu-Jitsu instructors think that they’re God or that they’re entitled to some sh*t just because some d*ck had decided to spend 10 years doing Jiu-Jitsu.

Manasoiu argues that simply practicing Jiu-Jitsu doesn’t inherently grant someone a superior status:

Jiu-Jitsu isn’t really useful for anything, to be honest.

You’re not saving lives, you’re not fixing cars, you’re not building things…You’re just kind of rolling around on the floor with somebody else.

At the core of his argument is the fundamental business relationship between students and instructors:

If I pay somebody to do something for me and I’m paying for a service, I’m paying you a service.I don’t owe you sh*t.

Manasoiu does, however, acknowledge that there are certain situations where students may owe some sort of “loyalty” to their coaches:

If your instructor goes out of his way to make sure that you’re straight, doing things for you outside of the realm of the s*it he offers everybody else at the academy…

Then you probably owe that guy something.