Announcement: Jason Latona expelled from 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu.

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Originally Posted by Slick Rick

You guys are funny with them comments! But all joking aside, I've been on the front line with 2 situations with students or training partners misrepresenting their belts- one at LA Headquarters, and one here in Singapore.

What I've learned is that if you take a person aside, man to man, and let them know to stop doing what they're doing- like nobody. No witnesses-nothing. Nothing to give the person a reason to continue lying past that point... If you do this, and they still believe they are that rank or belt, it's a them problem. You have to stop the problem right then and there, and part ways. Point blank.

It's not worth your time or any of your associates time to try to talk sense to someone displaying sociopathic behavior, as they don't care about the outcome, but the fact that you believe they are what they say they are. I'm done playing nice with people as people have mistaken this for weakness.

This is very interesting and I'm learning from this, in terms of the inevitability that if I open a school one day this might happen. So you rolled with this guy, was it like he was not very skilled, maybe somewhat of a tough guy but a lot of areas lacking or was it like he had absolutely no business wearing even a blue belt? Like, if he claimed to be a blue belt would he MAYBE have gotten away with it? lol like how bad was that roll? I'd love to have seen the moment in a roll where you KNEW this guy was fake. I've rolled with some blue/purple/browns that I thought to myself 'they must be the type to just put in the bare minimum attendance, maybe kinda physically tough but got minimal skills', though I'd only ever think this privately and never suspected that they were fake. I imagine this guys game must've really been dogshit to want to start him off at white.

Not gonna lie...out of pure interest and boredom I searched this guy on facebook. Based on the bravado and epic douchery of some of his pics, I have a hard time believing that he's been humbled to the degree of even getting a blue. Thank you for sharing.