My 13 year old son has started BJJ and MMA classes.

The lessons are 45 minutes long, he goes 4 times a week, twice for BJJ and twice for MMA.

The classes are for kids 8+, This costs £55 a month.

I'm completely ignorant about marital arts or how it's coached. However, from what I've seen it doesn't really appear to be very good. But I admit I just might have the completely wrong impression.

These are the things I regard as problematic.

Next to no coaching, the coaches are spending an inordinate amount of time with a select few of the kids that are already very skilled but very little time with anyone else.

They get shown an example of a technique, usually twice, in front of the class and then just get told to do it.

But they are not coached on how to do it. No one seems to be going around observing and they correcting mistakes or giving feedback.

More than half the time is spent not doing jiu jitsu. 45 minutes lessons and I would say they spend about 20 minutes doing actual BJJ. The rest of the time they're running around, doing exercises, playing games. I understand there has to be a warm up period but it seems weird.

Kids putting themselves in danger. They were told to do rolls, basically the coach just did this roll one time and told the kids to do it. They then proceed to do so with some of the kids jumping forward and using their heads/necks to land on. Three coaches were standing around chatting while this happened and no one stopped it and made sure they were doing it safely.

He's been there for 3 weeks now and he's hardly spent more than a handful of minutes with the coaches or being shown anything.

Is this normal ?

What should my level of expectation be ?

The gym looked pretty reputable https://www.cra.wales/

My 13 year old son has started BJJ and MMA classes.

The lessons are 45 minutes long, he goes 4 times a week, twice for BJJ and twice for MMA.

The classes are for kids 8+, This costs £55 a month.

I'm completely ignorant about marital arts or how it's coached. However, from what I've seen it doesn't really appear to be very good. But I admit I just might have the completely wrong impression.

These are the things I regard as problematic.

Next to no coaching, the coaches are spending an inordinate amount of time with a select few of the kids that are already very skilled but very little time with anyone else.

They get shown an example of a technique, usually twice, in front of the class and then just get told to do it.

But they are not coached on how to do it. No one seems to be going around observing and then correcting mistakes or giving feedback.

More than half the time is spent not doing jiu jitsu. 45 minutes lessons and I would say they spend about 20 minutes doing actual BJJ. The rest of the time they're running around, doing exercises, playing games. I understand there has to be a warm up period but it seems weird.

Kids putting themselves in danger. They were told to do rolls, basically the coach just did this roll one time and told the kids to do it. They then proceed to do so with some of the kids jumping forward and using their heads/necks to land on. Three coaches were standing around chatting while this happened and no one stopped it and made sure they were doing it safely.

He's been there for 3 weeks now and he's hardly spent more than a handful of minutes with the coaches or being shown anything.

Is this normal ?

What should my level of expectation be ?

The gym looked pretty reputable.