For those in more than one art .....

[karatekid1975]

Hey all. I stole this from another forum hehehehehe

Anyways, when you changed from your first style to the 2nd one,what was the hardest part of the transition?

What was the easiest?

Here's my story ... When I went from Tang Soo Do to Taekwondo, the hardest for me was the sparring rules. I went from point sparring where hand contact to the head is allowed to full contact non-stop sparring where no hand contact was allowed to the head. Very weird. In TSD, we also applied Thai boxing into the mix of the way we sparred (in class), and take-downs were allowed. In TKD, no take-downs, and no check kicks, or shin blocks are allowed. But I still do shin blocks, and I got used to not using my hands (we do that stuff in self defense training, though).

The easiest was the techniques and forms. I have always picked up stuff quickly in TSD, so it just continued in TKD. I already knew how to kick, punch, stance work, ect. The forms were a bit easier than TSD, but I found ways to improve them. The blocks were executed a bit different, but it didn't take me long to adjust.

But I still do TSD techniques within my forms and I never lost my "TSD side kick or TSD round house" as my boyfriend says hehehehe. I don't do the "the quick 45 degree roundhouse" except in sparring. I still turn my hip all the way over, and I kick with the ball of my foot. I kick with my heal with side kicks (in our school they teach side kicks with the blade of the foot). But I was never corrected on it, so I keep doing it, ect.

Anyways, what's your story?

[y2_sub]

I never had this problem , I never quit kyokushin ( and I will never do ) but when i started kickboxing , I haven't found any difficulty since moves and blocks are almost the same , but I always lost points for low kicking since it's not always allowed in kickboxing .

Judo is a grappling art , so it was like starting from the beginning , the good point was that i already had endurance and stamina

[italian_guy]

When I started karate from kickboxing I had some difficulty because in WKF rules (the one we use for sparring) you cannot make uppercuts, hooks and jab to the body like I used to do in kickboxing.

[cheeks]

i think that the hardest bit is the mental aspect, eg from being a high belt in one style, to becoming the beginer in a new style. it is a fairly difficult transition to make. especially if there is a particular technique to do which your new instructer says is useful, but you know a better way from your old style

but once you have adapted, then it is easy to be able to change the techniques for each style

[karatekid1975]

I agree, cheeks. I had a bit of a problem like that, also. I would do things the "old way" in my new art. Not because I was doing it on purpose (well most of the time), but because it was drilled in my head in TSD.

And yes, I wasn't happy about being a white belt again. But after I got my yellow belt, I didn't really care what rank I was, as long as I was learning the right way.

[Ben Martin]

in kickboxing my sensei always told me to never cross my hands when blocking but in muay thai they teach that as one of the blocks i never use it because i dont see the point as someone can just grab u and tthrow an elbow in and you are also leave your stomach wide open.

[Goju_boi]

well for me it was the punches beacuse the Karate punches were executed differently,then it was the foot work,but besides that it's all good.Although I tend to do some kickboxing looking punches when I sapr.

[niel0092]

I added some judo to my MA regiment and the hardest thing to get used to was foot work. I was used to being mobile and light on my feet but in Judo that's a good way to get thrown quickly.

I also found that I always wanted to strike in Judo and grapple when I was at TKD. Big fouls in both cases.

[Goju_boi]

I'm hopefully going to start kobudo next week,but I don't know if this will affect my training for two reasons:

1.it's like Karate's sister

2.It's a weapon based art.

Has anybody that cross trains in weapons here have any problems switching from a striking art to a weapon art?