Which Is More Important?

[sensei8]

Edit: This topic was meant to be a poll. I couldn't remember how to make it so, until Patrick re-educated me on how to do make a poll. Please feel free to pick your poll choice, even though you might have already posted already your opinions. Thank you for your understanding!

Edited November 29, 2010 by sensei8

[Jeffrey]

I’m going to go with experiences. IMO it does not matter how many techniques you know. With out experience using them, they are worthless.

And that is my 2 cents of Monday thoughts.

[Nevinyrral]

Well it depends if you mean lots of weak techniques, because if they are strong and good I'd take more tehniques over the experience

[BDPulver]

in my younger days of learning MA i too wouldve gone with techniques. but....

After many years of practicing, studying, working with other practicioners, delving into techniques to find the multiple meanings I'm going with experience...

brian

[sperki]

Maybe I'm missing something that's obvious, but isn't the reason we do anything recreational for the experience?

[tallgeese]

The experience. It's what makes every technique you learn work under duress.

[evergrey]

I think the experiences.

Anyone can be a thug.

It takes a special kind of character and experience to become a warrior.

[KarateGeorge]

Most anybody can learn the mechanical movements to any number of techniques with a little practice. The experiences of the martial arts journey is what really matters the most to me.

[DWx]

To (sort of) quote Bruce Lee: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

No good having 100s of techniques if you don't know how and when to use them. Can't really teach the finer points of that, all comes with experience.

And if we're talking about experience in the sense of life changing experiences, would take them over volume of techniques any day.

[Nevinyrral]

Yeah, but the question did not specify that the tehniques will be weak.

And if you dont even know how to jab properly, you wont get any experience coz you'll get knocked easily