take as many lessons as you can, then use the bouts to practice and refine the skills learned in the lessons. Even if you lose many of the practice bouts, you'll groove the techniques and make them work better for you as you continue.
"Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
"Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
William Black, Ph.D.