SHOULD I JOIN A NEW GYM (BEGINNER)
Been training for just about 3 months now. While I have improved slightly since day 1, I feel like I could have improved substantially more with a better learning structure.
I don't know how every bjj gym teaches but heres how my gym's classes are structured. We basically go over 2-3 moves and then drill them individually with a partner. It's maybe about 5 minutes of drilling per move. That takes up the first 30-40 minutes of class and then the last 30 minutes is live rolling.
My problem with this is that jiu jitsu is highly technical and the moves do not come naturally to me (I'm sure they don't for most people too), so the short amount of drilling that we do in class is nowhere enough for me to get mechanics down. Not to mention each class it's basically something different every single time, so I never get any spaced repition of something that I may have learned previously.
My intuition would be that If I want actually learn the mechanics of a move, say a kimura, I would need tons and tons of repition in a single session as well as exposure of that same move across many different classes. Instead, I'll get a very small number of reps in where I barely get the move down before moving on to the next move and by the time the next class hits I feel like I didn't really retain anything.
I get that over time, I'll become more familiarized with patterns and mechanics with prolonged exposure but this is a very inefficient way of learning. Should I try out a different gym or I going to experience this issue with most gyms that teach group classes?