Should I Switch My BJJ Academy?? 

The focus on being true to yourself and your needs is a very very wise point to make, thank you. I'm in the "break up" process with my first gym and this is helping me get clarity, keep it up

Thanks for the timely advice. I'm that guy that's training at another gym, and avoiding the group pictures:)

I am quitting my current BJJ gyms as the coach spends little time with technique and all the time with rolling. I am getting beaten up and not learning and I hate the class. I will be looking for a second gym. I will keep the MMA program at current gym

Good and well reasoned points. I had some questions like this when I began BJJ after years of training Muay Thai. In the end I was honest with my Muay Thai coach and decided I'd continue to do Thai boxing and grapple alongside it and we were all happy about it.

After 9 months at a good gym I really struggled with changing gyms. I only changed due to injuries. Really love new gym - safety is strongly emphasized.

For me its the dozn of concussions I got from doing judo on Saturdays, the numerous knee pops in nogi classes,cause leg locks and knee rips are permitted, the high pace intensity of the young students going hard each and every class. Spent an entire year with those mat beast, I am 51, I know better, with 10 years or so in grappling, if I keep going with em, I'll walk in a wheel chair (as my doctor told me). Also, the belt testings. Most guys who had their blue belt and purple belt testings, had to layoff for a few months, cause the tests are grueling and plain brutal. The new school I attend is more respectful of its students and age groups.

Thanks for this, your videos have become a big addition to my training. I love the people at my gym and we go compete together, have a message group where we post funny memes etc, there are black belts in the local area though and my instructors a recent brown belt who sometimes doesn't break things down in the detail I see in online videos like yours. I'm training as a hobby but do want to succeed and win at comps etc. How important do you think it is to train under a black belt if it's possible, compared to a good gym vibe with people you like.

Any advice or a video on professors/gym owners who claim they are world champions, when in fact it had been a single man bracket?

I'm thinking of changing clubs, I've been going for two years to my club & have never once rolled with the instructor, in fact I have never actually seen him roll with anyone in class, how can he assess someone's progress, is this normal?

I love watching these videos but the banner in the background are you going to change it to invisible jiu jitsu

answer is always no. :)

Don't know if you'll see this but I need help bc I've been at my BJJ school for about a year and love it but I just found out that there is a MMA gym where I could train striking and additional grappling besides BJJ and they have a strength and conditioning program. I think this is more of what I want to do now since at first I was not sure what I wanted out of a martial art school but now I feel like I want to learn about all of them as much as I can and improve my body but don't want to stab my teachers in the back after all they've done to help my Jiu-Jitsu game.

No....... it’s a marriage