Coach Ross raises and inspires a good ponit! When you folks do this, trade up styles and forms, as we all at some stage do ( with exception to die hard 1 kata for 25 yrs no parole fans) , do you dice what you knew previously and take everything from detatched "brand knew " knowledge perspective or do you incorporate what you’re learning as you go to what you have before???
I have a jack of many style ( master of none) system going on, and personally I find that if I approach each new style and form as though I know nothing, it’s easier to get that particualar flow on and later incorporate it into what I’d learnt before.
yourselves???
and how easy is that for you…
Ie:- when learning some southern shaolin over the past month and bit, having come directly from a tkd base, it was really hard for me to adapt to the differences as we were progressing…just did not compute!!! Especially with the crane come spinning fly back spin . Even their chambers are different!!!
And taiji meets shaolin is another kettle of fish again: feet opposing each other, then throw in some xingyi and weight distribution and I’m getting dizzy!
Bloom… having just recently started focusing on Sil-Lum KF (about a year ago) and coming from an Isshinryu/Aikido background I’m finding that the forms here are much different. However, I can’t help but incorporate some old habits into the new. My c-steps are more L shaped out of habit and my flow is still somewhat of the choppy karate 1-move-at-a-time-ish drill (in the old days my kata looked like somone fighting in a strobe light).
One of the major differences I have found is the emphasis on the uber-low stances that make my legs feel like toothpicks wrapped in lukewarm jello. This is something that I am trying to embrace one painful stance at a time as I find it is helping with my overall stability.
dong dong…I understand.but if you can incorporate 50 wide squats into your daily regime and do stair runs / sprints when you can, you’ll find you’'ll adapt much faster.
on the c’s as l’s , that’s my point, and i think if you can get into the zone, where despite what has now become reflexive instinct, you detatch and take the lesson for all its’ glory ( which your shifu’s gon luv you for ), you can get a better grasp on the here and now, and can save the thinking for ron ( as in - later .ron)
you can spend your time bring a single knife to a highly honed sharpness, or you can spend a longer time bring the entire cutlery drawer to the same state.
Having said that, I engage in seeking opportunity to learn wherever and whenever I can. Thankfully I have a time luxury compnent in my life right now and this is what I have chosen to do with my time.
I don’t see any problem with a singular focus or multiple. In the end, it is all within the same boundaries and context and being at a buffet is sometimes better than rice and black eyed peas all the time. At least for me.
nah i dont tend to forget what i learned in the previous style. msot the basics are alike and stances too jsut different names. I try to keep acurate when performing to the way i was taught. usually i jsut put shaolin flava in everything and it looks better
I dont see the point in doing anything for such a short time that you cant even learn how to use it.
No problem with studying more than 1 art, but study them continuously. I study SC and BJJ right now, and will continue to do so for several years to come. Ill pick up techniques I like here and there from other systems, but no way in hell will I try and learn a whole nother system. Its plainly and simply pointless. If you seriously think you have the capacity to learn the nuances and feeling of a system in a few months, you are a grossly deluded individual. Why not pick one or two things and stick with it long enough to actually learn something?
Hi, I think it is good to stick with one system. Especially when you are a beginner. I would say wait until you are very adept and capabel, by your teacher’s persmission, to teach, and then maybe at some point you should learn more, but I really think it takes a long time to cover an entire system, and you have to make your body adapt to this system and that takes years. Also, you should probably take some time to study rehab methods for injury, like massage, physio, acupuncture, or anything of that sort, and then there are character requirements you should try and achieve, never mind meditation, and so on. What are you studying, Bloominglotus? Are you just studying to fight, or to defend yourself, or for fitness, because a lot of people take these aspects first and sometimes only, and so they may need to train in a lot of systems to compensate for their lack of spiritual development. I’m not saying you have anything like this, but you should really focus on what you are taught. I trained tai chi for a year and I felt the grounding it gave me helped me avoid fights and have confidence, so in that sense it didn’t make me feel invincible, but nothing is going to do that, but it helped me feel good and I didn’t get beat up or mugged so it must have protected me through some channel.
Originally posted by IronKim
[B]I think it is valuable to pick up new stuff and new forms because it helps you learn more and getter better perspective on your chosen art(s). And also because it keeps things fun and interesting.
However, I don’t think you should be looking for “perspective” until you have settled into a particular art and have a solid background in it.
To use my self as an example, I have studied Choy Lay Fut and Chen Taiji for the last 8 years. The whole time with the same two teachers.
Double tracking like this has caused a lot of confusion and I even had to quit Taiji for a brief time to sort it out.
Its been a great experience and I’ve learned a lot. However, I’m very curious about other styles and arts and I’m wondering what they have teach me about my two main arts (which I think that I’ll probably stick with my whole life as they are both great systems.) [/B]
Before he gets a chance to delete it…we should save this for posterity.
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