I believe cross-training is a good thing, but that isn't the issue here.
It seems to me that if you become a "Master" or "Sensei" of an art, you are recognized as having an in-depth knowledge of that art and have earned the right to pass that information along to others. If you have done that with multiple arts and choose to incorporate them into a hybrid art and teach it, with solid credentials to back it up, I really don't see anything wrong with it.
But if you become a BB in an art, quit, go to another art and so on, you haven't "Mastered" anything. Now having done this with multiple arts which you haven't "Mastered", you incorporate your basic knowledge of each into an art and call yourself the "Grand Poobah" of that art is a very different thing to me. A "Master" or "Sensei" is having a great deal of knowlegde about something, not the compilation of a little knowledge about alot of things. If you haven't EARNED the right to teach any one component, (because any component will not acknowledge that you have acheived the required experinece) how then have you EARNED the right to teach their sum?
[Ducks newbie head] Okay, Fire away....
It seems to me that if you become a "Master" or "Sensei" of an art, you are recognized as having an in-depth knowledge of that art and have earned the right to pass that information along to others. If you have done that with multiple arts and choose to incorporate them into a hybrid art and teach it, with solid credentials to back it up, I really don't see anything wrong with it.
But if you become a BB in an art, quit, go to another art and so on, you haven't "Mastered" anything. Now having done this with multiple arts which you haven't "Mastered", you incorporate your basic knowledge of each into an art and call yourself the "Grand Poobah" of that art is a very different thing to me. A "Master" or "Sensei" is having a great deal of knowlegde about something, not the compilation of a little knowledge about alot of things. If you haven't EARNED the right to teach any one component, (because any component will not acknowledge that you have acheived the required experinece) how then have you EARNED the right to teach their sum?
[Ducks newbie head] Okay, Fire away....