Taking your first lesson after watching videos for years is when real learning starts. Watching is safe. Doing is the class.

Watching builds a convincing sense of competence with none of the risk attached, which is why it is so easy to keep doing for years. Your hands still know nothing. The first real session is uncomfortable because it swaps a flattering picture of yourself for an accurate one, and the accurate one is the only thing you can improve from. Everything useful begins at that exchange.

Book the first lesson this month, before you watch anything else about it. Expect to be worse than you pictured, and treat that as the point rather than a setback.