Hi all,
With all of the debate on whether (and when) one should study more than one art, I was wondering what was the most number of martial arts you, or someone you have heard of, have studied at once. I guess to make the question a bit more specific, I would define studying an art to be receiving formal or semi-formal instruction in an art at least once a month.
The reason why I ask is that the last 4 schools I took classes from (I've moved around alot) taught multiple martial arts. The current school I just signed with teaches 3, the school before that taught 4, the school before that taught 3, and the school before that taught 8. Furthermore, I just bought some books from a store that is attached to a school that teaches 9! All of the examples I listed have seperate classes for each are. Another thing to note is that in all cases, the same instructor is not teaching all of the classes. from the schools with 8 and 9 different arts taught, I believe that the most one instructor teaches is 3.
So, what is the most number of arts you've studied at once? Mine is 2 (Jujitsu and Karate a few years ago and Judo and Hapkido now).
Jon
With all of the debate on whether (and when) one should study more than one art, I was wondering what was the most number of martial arts you, or someone you have heard of, have studied at once. I guess to make the question a bit more specific, I would define studying an art to be receiving formal or semi-formal instruction in an art at least once a month.
The reason why I ask is that the last 4 schools I took classes from (I've moved around alot) taught multiple martial arts. The current school I just signed with teaches 3, the school before that taught 4, the school before that taught 3, and the school before that taught 8. Furthermore, I just bought some books from a store that is attached to a school that teaches 9! All of the examples I listed have seperate classes for each are. Another thing to note is that in all cases, the same instructor is not teaching all of the classes. from the schools with 8 and 9 different arts taught, I believe that the most one instructor teaches is 3.
So, what is the most number of arts you've studied at once? Mine is 2 (Jujitsu and Karate a few years ago and Judo and Hapkido now).
Jon