u/SpinningStuff

Sometimes I have students (minority) who book privates with me, drill two moves and start asking me advice about relationship (girlfriend, familly life, etc.) or work. Like I don't see them on the regular, and they ONLY book privates when they seemingly have something they want to troubleshoot or talk about. This, I don't mind too much to be honest, it's like getting paid for consulting/therapy work, but dressed in jiu-jitsu attire while we sit at the gym (bar would be more comfortable - at least we could drink and eat while I listen but I don't chose the venue I guess).

Then there are new random people who book privates with me, do two moves and then start interviewing me (where do you come from / how do you like it here / are you full time coach / what job do you do outside of jiu-jitsu ? etc) then asking me to teach them any random skills completely unrelated to jiu-jitsu right there, right then (oh you know software development, can you teach me ? or can you teach me English ? Can you teach me how to edit videos ?). It feels like they are people just looking to make friends and so they book a private, just come talk about whatever with no strong interest in jiu-jitsu, like they just long for friendship. It's the kind of talk you'd have if you are at a friend's house and just met a random dude you didn't know, who somehow decided he wants to be your friend.

Also to be clear, I'm a dude and this so far only happens with other dudes, so it's not a GalvaoStein situation where it's some weird coach/woman power dynamic type of relationship. It's either people I never really see outside of the gym, or people I never met before.

For the latter I have mixed feelings, because it's just fucking weird, but then, there is no harm, I'm getting paid to get interviewed and it's good money for the gym, since they tend to just pay full price no questions asked. But it just makes me feel very uneasy. The regular students who use the private classes to troubleshoot, brainstorm or as therapy session, i don't mind much and by then I know them well so it just feels fine.

What do you guys think, or what have been your experiences ?

Might have to try that next time at the gym and see

Ground breaking concepts like how to not (maybe) lick female partners ears (but if you do it's ok just invoke Jesus). How to not dry hump your top student's girlfriend (or try to convince the student it's all good and it's Jesus if you do it anyways).

Bro is pulling a page from the Lloyd Irvin post-r*pe SEO manipulation palybook.

So, noob here, I used to use chat DS v4 (aka expert) and the answers for pretty much everything were really good, including for code debugging or writing, insightful answers on any topic. It's been pretty much that good since it launched (I guess I was early adopters for chat).

Lately (last two or three weeks) the chat has become really dumb, even in expert mode, can't really write any working code, let alone debug, answers on most topics are wrong. Yet I see people in here and many other places rave about how DS is so good (and above all cheap).

So my question is, is DS v4 pro via API much much smarter than the one on web chat interface ? It's so cheap, I may consider just building my own chat with an API connection to it if really it can be as good (or better) as the versions I use to interact with.

Apologies if it's a dumb question.