Another Jiu-Jitsu call phone ☎️😂

Parent: “Hi I want info about Jiu-Jitsu for my 10 year old.”

🦊: Great what are we looking to get out of it for him?

Parent: I want him to learn how to defend himself.

🦊: Okay cool!

I talk about our schedule and what BJJ is, I learn more about the kid etc

🦊 : We offer a free intro class to make sure it’s what you’re looking for! Wanna get that set up?

Parent: Let me ask him if this is something he wants to do first.

🦊: Um…..okay 🫤

Parent: Sensing my mental fatigue of having this convo yet again.

“Because you know…..to make sure he likes it and wants to do it. I don’t want to make him do something he doesn’t wanna do.”

🦊: Can I ask you something Mom?

Parent: “Yes”

🦊: “What if your son Michael doesn’t wanna go to school? Do you make him?”

Parent: “To school?”

🦊: “To school.”

Parent: “If he doesn’t want to go to school?”

🦊: Do I hear an echo?. “Yes if he doesn’t want to go to school….do you make him?”

Parent: “Of course.”

🦊: “Why?”

Parent: “Because it will help him in the future get a good job.”

🦊: “Right. So you agree that school will benefit him in life in the long term and it’s not an optional activity? “

Parent: “Yes.”

🦊: “So is Jiu-Jitsu. It’s not a casual, try it out for 6 week thing. Especially with our program. We offer a moneyback guarantee to deliver on everything that we say.

Anyone who is claiming to improve your child’s focus, build their confidence, or teach them self-defense in three months is LIEING to you.

So if you’re only looking to train for 3 months (pending your 10 year old is in the mood 😂)…..you’re wasting your money….to be perfectly frank. And we don’t even offer that so I would have to refer you out.”

Parent: Well I wish you would’ve told me that at the beginning of the conversation.

🦊 Told you what? That you are your child’s guardian and you should make decision for them in their best interest, not based on their feelings that day?

“I recommend you check out _____ BJJ school down the road. They’ll take your money, and they’re cheaper than us.”

Parent: Ok thanks.

I used to try and convert lazy/poor parenting habits or mindsets.

Now I just try to attract the winning ones. 🎖️

See you on the mat,

Written by Coach David Fox