Beginner jiu-jitsu student awarded $56M after being paralyzed while sparring with instructor ‘Sinistro’

Fuente: New York Post

A jiu-jitsu student has been awarded $56 million after he was left paralyzed from the neck down by a black-belt instructor known as “Sinistro. ” Jack Greener, 30, was a beginner white belt sparring with his teacher, second-degree black belt Francisco Iturralde, 33, when he suffered the catastrophic injury in 2018, crushing his cervical vertebrae and rendering him a quadriplegic. Video showed the beginning on all fours when his instructor flips him forward, awkwardly twisting him face down and twisting his neck.