chrismay101
Green Belt
Is it possible to train in two martial arts and put your all in to both or should it be one at a time?
Ultimately, I would tell someone to stick to a good style for a few years and get a solid foundation before trying another style.
AoG
There also no systems that are good at everything. None. Zero. Zip. I don't care what your sifu or sensei told you. Everything has specialties, and everything has deficiencies.
Is it possible to train in two martial arts and put your all in to both or should it be one at a time?
Wrong, I'm afraid. Plenty of the Great Revered Masters did more than one thing and did them well. And if it they hadn't there would never have been any progress in the field. You only get that when someone learns something he didn't know and adopts it or creates something to deal with it and does it at least as well as what he was doing before.
You can, but I doubt you would get to excel in one or the other.
You can train in two martial arts, but there is an old saying that goes "A hunter that chases two rabbits get neither."
To me, aside from splitting your energy and concentration into two directions, it's also about loyalty. If you are training in two martial arts, or trying to anyway, it is akin to trying to serve two masters. I don't know where your loyalties lie. After you have trained in one martial art for quite a few years and established yourself as a loyal student, and your Instructor knows you can be counted on, then it is okay to start training in another art. Several of our black belts. including me, have. Our GM's son practiced BJJ. But he was also a 4th Dan before he took it up. It's not about demanding that you stay only with me, it's about firmly establishing your basics and your loyalty before stretching your wings.
I'm confused. Why should a person be loyal to a set of techniques bound together by an over-riding strategy?
Or, in the case of being loyal to an instructor, why would training at another school, if it offers what the student wants, be considered disloyal?
Further to that, why would a person owe 'loyalty' to a school or instructor?
I see nothing wrong with being in two martial arts at the same time BUT i do suggest getting a strong level of training in one before learning a 2nd