Learning your kata with both hands?

[Touch Of Death]

Wait, is that the problem with my bowling??

And billiards. LOL

 

[Gerry Seymour]

And billiards. LOL

Crap. I'm doing EVERYTHING wrong.

 

[Touch Of Death]

Crap. I'm doing EVERYTHING wrong.

No, you aren't. You will just never be a champion until you switch eye dominance.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

And, no, you don't reduce your strong-side effectiveness by 50% when training the weak side.

With the same amount of training time, to train your right side 10,000 times is better than to train your right side 5,000 times.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

With the same amount of training time, to train your right side 10,000 times is better than to train your right side 5,000 times.

Yes, but training it 10,000 times will not produce twice the effectiveness as training it 5,000. There's a diminishing effect. And there's a comprehension advantage to learning it on the other side. That leaves us with a cost-benefit question: does having the second side available AND the potential for better comprehension outweigh the slight lowering of the strong-side capability. In self-defense, that's often a straightforward "yes", if only because we might not be able to use our strong side on the day we need the technique. When you add to that the fact that for many techniques the choice of side is dependent upon the situation, it makes even more sense to have most (perhaps not all) techniques prepped for both sides.

 

[Balrog]

Do you know your kata or whatever your discipline calls it with both hands?

Ours are designed to train both sides of the body equally.

 

[psilent child]

I'm s not as bad as I though guy it would be, it just feels weird.