Post by exmachina on Nov 23, 2017 9:41:16 GMT -8
Bit about me. Been at BJJ 3 months, 4x per week (3 in gi, 1 no gi).
I initially approached this Academy due to the gym having a rep as producing hard rollers and alot of competition wins. So I approach the proprieter, who is a black belt, has some big wins in IBJJF but never world class. Definitely the top jiu jitsu in my city.
The gym threw me off by being very small, no running water, only 700sq feet in mats. Filthy place. There are roughly 7 students, ranging from me being white (no stripes), a white with 2 stripes, the rest blue, purple, black. Classes were actually good and aggressive. Mainly all rolling. I found the coach to only be teaching the top 2 guys I kept struggling and being yelled at for making mistakes.
I approached the coach on facebook and said that I needed some basic training. I said I don't know what you mean when you yell for me to sprawl. I had to ask another student when bridging and shrimping were. The coach says I'll tell you what, since you seem so pumped up to learn send me $500 and you are good for 6 months.
Classes run mon-fri and then I found out everyone but me was being invited to weekend rolls when there would be some new instructors coming in. They would post team pics to Facebook and caption it "if you didn't show up you missed out on a great opportunity".
Anyways, I bring this up and mention I feel left out not even being invited to at least watch and mentally learn the drills. The reaction to this was "its all good man I'll help you out. Think you can send me $80 and I will make sure you can get in a few months from now." I said that I feel I am being looked at as a bank machine and will be taking a break. Next day the coach publicly shames me on Facebook, having members gang mentality mock me and everyone states they feel they are better off without me. The coach likes to claim I made a fit about not being invited but I really just asked why are you posting people should be there and then never teaching me basics. He believes those should be private lessons at $70 each.
TL;DR - was in the right to switch Academies to be able to learn from the bottom up rather than be taught purple belt level chokes? I still don't know how to shrimp properly and I was just disregarded as a pussy for not paying extra on top of the $500 I already paid.
I initially approached this Academy due to the gym having a rep as producing hard rollers and alot of competition wins. So I approach the proprieter, who is a black belt, has some big wins in IBJJF but never world class. Definitely the top jiu jitsu in my city.
The gym threw me off by being very small, no running water, only 700sq feet in mats. Filthy place. There are roughly 7 students, ranging from me being white (no stripes), a white with 2 stripes, the rest blue, purple, black. Classes were actually good and aggressive. Mainly all rolling. I found the coach to only be teaching the top 2 guys I kept struggling and being yelled at for making mistakes.
I approached the coach on facebook and said that I needed some basic training. I said I don't know what you mean when you yell for me to sprawl. I had to ask another student when bridging and shrimping were. The coach says I'll tell you what, since you seem so pumped up to learn send me $500 and you are good for 6 months.
Classes run mon-fri and then I found out everyone but me was being invited to weekend rolls when there would be some new instructors coming in. They would post team pics to Facebook and caption it "if you didn't show up you missed out on a great opportunity".
Anyways, I bring this up and mention I feel left out not even being invited to at least watch and mentally learn the drills. The reaction to this was "its all good man I'll help you out. Think you can send me $80 and I will make sure you can get in a few months from now." I said that I feel I am being looked at as a bank machine and will be taking a break. Next day the coach publicly shames me on Facebook, having members gang mentality mock me and everyone states they feel they are better off without me. The coach likes to claim I made a fit about not being invited but I really just asked why are you posting people should be there and then never teaching me basics. He believes those should be private lessons at $70 each.
TL;DR - was in the right to switch Academies to be able to learn from the bottom up rather than be taught purple belt level chokes? I still don't know how to shrimp properly and I was just disregarded as a pussy for not paying extra on top of the $500 I already paid.
