Your first season in a new sport might be rough. Judge it after your second.

A first season is not spent on performance. It goes on the invisible stuff: where to stand, what the words mean, how your body is supposed to move, what the drills are actually for. None of it shows up in the stat line. Year two is the first honest reading.

Decide now what you want from this season and write it down in terms that are not results. Learn the positions, stop getting lost in drills, finish every session. Judge yourself against that list, and leave the verdict on the sport itself until next spring.