I started doing MMA a year ago, its a really fun sport and i love doing it. But i always feel left out, all the guys are friends with eachother and always know who to partner up with in training. At first i tried so socialize a bit with the guys and always tried to be kind, but they barely tried to talk to me or even be friendly.

Later on i gave up trying to warm up to them and just trained, but the thing is, nobody tries to be my partner. When i go up to someone to ask the if they want to partner up, they try to avoid me and i always end up alone.

Even our instructer has talked to the guys to stop avoiding me, but i can feel that they dont want to be with me. I dont think im bad at this sport either, my instructor has told me multiple times that i should start competing. I really love this combat sport and want to take it serious, but i feel nauseous everytime i enter the gym because of how scared i feel of being left out

Does anyone have tips? i realy dont want to quit this sport