MA's conflicting with each other

[dear john]

In my Tae Kwon Do class, we are currently going over some changes and in the past couple of years we have added some grppling and wrist releases wrist locks to make are MA more complete.

 

my jujitsu class teaches the same moves just more in depth. i recently learned a wrist release that seems a bit muscle bound TKD. this moves jujitsu equal part seems so a lot more efficeint. i tried doing the jujitsu way in class but they seem intent on wanting me to do it their way.

 

in suggestions

[MenteReligieuse]

Learn em both.

[foreveryoung001]

i tried doing the jujitsu way in class but they seem intent on wanting me to do it their way.

 

I would follow your instructors teaching for each class. If your TKD instructor has a particular way that he would like this technique applied, then do it his way. I can not tell you how anoying it can be to have a student question my teaching during class... "Well my blankety-blank intructor says we should do it this way!"

 

Now before or after class, I, and I think most instructors, would be open to your ideas and thoughts. They may have a particular reason for their aplication, and would be more willing to explain it to you then. In class time, they may prefer that students do what they are asked to do, save the questions for after class. Even if your TKD instructor is not open to explaining his reasons, I would still suggest doing it his way while in TKD class. If you feel that his way is "wrong" and can not get over the fact that you disagree with him, then perhaps you should only concentrate on one particular art, or find a TKD instructor who fits your personality better.

 

Just my thought.

[Sasori_Te]

As foreveryoung said, talk to your tkd instructor after class and see what he says. If his answer doesn't impress you either suck it up and carry on with your training or move on and study the one art. Remember, not all instructors are created equally. You'll get a feel for his quality by the way he answers your question.

[Jinxx0r]

"When chasing two cats, you will catch neither" -

[dear john]

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[longarm25]

"When chasing two cats, you will catch neither" -

thats deep

[Flying Tiger]

Jinxx0r, where is that qoute form? That is a most excellent saying.

 

I don't really have much to offer to this thread, because the important things have been said. I run into this problem also. I used to take ju-jitsu (and that, of course, covered a lot of grappling). I'm currently taking Tang Soo Do, and occasionally we do some grappling. I really try hard to follow the methods that my instructor is teaching, but they sometime feel...incomplete (this may just be my being used to a different way of doing things, however). So I usually wait to speak to him after class. Well, since this was pretty much said a few times before, I'm going to silence myself now.

[Jinxx0r]

Jinxx0r, where is that qoute form? That is a most excellent saying.

 

It's a Taoist saying/quote. I read it in a book on kendo.

 

It basically means if you try to do too many things they will all suffer. You'll never really experience both of them fully. In the context of the book it was about picking the art that you love and sticking with it and giving yourself fully to it.

 

*shrugs*

 

sounded appropriate to me for this thread, hehe

 

[DLopez]

Tao, shmao!

 

Here in Texas, we simply call it "Herding cats".