Last weekend I had instructors representing 7 different styles?systems at my school with some of their students for a group learning session. We started by haveing each instructor give a brief histoy of his system then demonstrate basic stances,blocks, and strikes and expaining why each was done the way it is in their system. You Know,locked backleg vs bent, vertical punch vs horizontal, etc.
We broke down a beginers form that was common to most showing the small differences end explaining the Why of it once again.
later in the day each instructor showed a selfdefence that eveyone practiced and learned then we would switch partner and the next instructor would give one to lean In that way we all had a much more formal and personal introduction to one another while learning at the same time.
I don't think this type of activity would have taken place in most places., and I am sure it would not have happened 10 years ago. Every one seemed to enjoy this almost informal way of learning a little of the other persons system with egos left behind.
So my question is do any of the rest of you do such cross training ?
Shadow
We broke down a beginers form that was common to most showing the small differences end explaining the Why of it once again.
later in the day each instructor showed a selfdefence that eveyone practiced and learned then we would switch partner and the next instructor would give one to lean In that way we all had a much more formal and personal introduction to one another while learning at the same time.
I don't think this type of activity would have taken place in most places., and I am sure it would not have happened 10 years ago. Every one seemed to enjoy this almost informal way of learning a little of the other persons system with egos left behind.
So my question is do any of the rest of you do such cross training ?
Shadow