Keeping a BJJ gym running – and keeping it profitable – is no easy task.
Which is why BJJ gym owners should try to learn from the mistakes made by others, as well as from the advice of those more experienced than them…
As doing so will make their chances for success much better.
In an interview with BJJEE, Fabio Gurgel shared the mistakes BHH gym owners often make.
Including the one of focusing too much on the competition group:
If in your class you focus too much on the competition group, then you’re actually spelling out all of the other people that would love to learn BJJ.
Those who cannot keep up with the training sessions of competitors, because of their knowledge and their pace.
And, well, Gurgel has learned this lesson through experience:
This is something that has happened in Brazil in the 90’s, something due to which the academies were getting smaller as less people came in to train because the environment in the academies was bad.
Today, this is something that I see happening in Europe.With this sort of an approach, your base of students gets smaller and therefore you don’t get as many people training in the academy – nor do you find any potential talents for competition, as they cannot even start training in the first place!
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