Strength matters
Chances are you have skipped the assistance work your coach told you to do after class or between classes. As Coach Sommer once wrote on a forum: "The quickest way to get good at gymnastics is to get strong. Technique is easier."
I don't completely agree, but on the whole he is right. Most people are simply too weak.
In the ring muscle-up, for instance, men tend to be too weak or too stiff close to the body at the bottom of the ring dip or in the transition. If you are good at strict pull-ups, you will also be good at butterfly chest-to-bar pull-ups. It is just mechanics.
The talk about "losing the rhythm" is nonsense. You are too weak to keep pace with yourself.
Technique matters
Strength takes you a long way, but you need to get efficient to reach the next level. Think of technique as efficiency.
Imagine a strongman with a weightlifter's mobility and technique. They could snatch the world. That is the extreme, but strongmen muscle-clean over 200 kg, so strength takes you far. To clean and jerk 260 kg or more, though, you need skill, or efficiency.
Gymnastics works the same way. You can have 10 strict pull-ups but only 12 kipping because you skipped the beat swing work. You need to master the basics.
I train basics almost every day in my warm-ups, or skill preparation if you prefer. You never get too good for the basics. The pull-up guide shows where to start.
Sequencing
Our recommendation: address some strength first, then some technique, and so on.
You could choose a strict path or a kipping path, but we believe a longer progression that alternates strength and skill gives you more for every month you put in, and gives your head some well-needed variation.
Good luck!