I recently started formal training in jujutsu. The sensei is a truly great martial artist and the style is intersting, useful, and has a lot of material and depth to it. Unfortunately, I've been having trouble learning it because I sometimes try to do a technique using a theory or method I got from prior training that, while working (usually), is not the way it is done in jujutsu. Because of this, I feel like my training is stutter-stepping, my movements are choppy, and I have no confidence in my techniques. Granted, I'm not training as much as I should due to a lack of a good training partner, but that is changing.
My current skills are a hodgepodge of MA that I have picked up over the years dojo hopping and moving. I feel that I can defend myself fairly well, but there is no fluidity to what I do, and occasionally, I get stuck because my brain is trying to decide which technique to use in the middle of the movement. I thought that if I take a few weeks or so off from my jujutsu, and refined what I already know, that might help but it also just might make the jujutsu that much harder to assimilate as second nature because the other stuff would be there and fresher...
Basically, I'm at a loss as to how to "empty my cup" and still retain what I know, or even shed completely my prior training and just make jujutsu my art. Any suggestions?
-ZC