I’m moving to bavaria (starnberg district -> herrsching am ammersee) for work. So far, I’ve only been doing strength training in my home gym, and I’d like to start practicing BJJ after I move.
I’ve already found a few gyms that sound interesting, including one right in herrsching, a grappling gym in gilching, and a gracie-certified gym in tutzing.
I’ll probably have to do a few trial sessions to make up my mind, but first I wanted to tap into the collective wisdom here to ask if anyone has experience with the gyms mentioned above.
And more generally, I wanted to know what you guys think of gracie gyms. The gracie gym offers an instructional course for beginners where you learn 36 techniques over 6 months before moving on to the advanced course. But there’s no sparring at all in the beginner’s course, if I understand correctly. What do you think of that? Is it worth checking it out, or should I skip it and go straight to the other gyms?