Have you tried doing two types of martial arts?

Question

i have tried. i started off with tae kwon do and have been practising it for about 10 years. Then i tried doing ninjutsu, and omg i was having a hard time trying to adjust. have any of you been in my shoes? how do you over come it?

Answer 1

Heh. Learn how to shoot.

Answer 2

I began martial arts Nov. of 1995 and earned black belt Nov. 1998.  I then got out for a while and tried Shotokan, Isshin Ryu, and Kyokunshinkai.  I never was able to like any of them as much as my first style.  I had a hard time adapting to a longer back stance, and foot positions on the front stance, and the lack of more kicks.  I rejoined my original style of March of 2006 and have been in it since.

I had a hard time adjusting.  It takes a lot of time, to practice your tae kwon do on your own, and then mind set in class, to do ninjitsu in class.  It is hard to keep all the skills you learned and not mix it with the other.  I had to relearn some of my stuff when I came back to taekwondo.  Took a good friend, patience, and repetition.

Answer 3

yes! i started out at taekwondo when i was 11 and left once i got my black at 16 and started wing chun. At first when i was shown something i would think to myself that was c**p at taekwondo we do it different, making it even harder for myself. Also because i had a black belt i thought i was better than most of them too. But then i realized if i wanted to learn it and get good at it i would have to go back to square one and think of myself as a true white belt, only then will you be able to embrace a new art and be able to learn it.

I'm 18 now and on track for my 2nd black belt by the end of the year.

Answer 4

tae kwando is a really predictable style, too easy to counter, ninjutsu is so much dif, thats why.

Answer 5

Since you have some experiance, you may find yourself thinking "ok I already know the basics for this kick/punch/block" but try not to think like that. Try to have the mentality of a person that has zero experiance.

Answer 6

Generally speaking one spends their entire life mastering just one martial art.

You may become proficient in a few martial arts, but generally you only master one.

That being said, I started studying Kodokan Judo, Goju Ryu Karate, and Hakko Ryu Jiu jitsu and after about six years of training I deemphasized my Karate to emphasize my Judo and Jiu-jitsu.

Even Bruce Lee emphasized Wing Chun kung fu before studying several other styles and creating his mixed martial art of Jeet Kune Do.

I have black belts in Judo, Karate, and Jiu-jitsu.  And I have high kyu ratings in: Uechi Ryu Karate, Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, Kendo, Kodokwan Jiu-Jitsu, and Aikido.

And yes there is a lot of gear shifting when you switch from one style to another.  But that is natural.  It even happens to the Japanese and Chinese as they try to master several styles of combat.

It is even worse when you shift from a Japanese style to an Okinawan style to a Korean style to a Chinese style.

So stick with two or three styles at the most.  Master one and become proficient in two others and you've come a long way.

Answer 7

My question is why do you want to know so little about TKD? 10 years in most traditional arts is barely enough time to scratch the surface. That is why so many people want to jump on th MMA bandwagon, which is fine if it works for them, but many styles are far more complete then people realizee, it just takes a long time to figure that out.

take for instance the style I train, Isshin-Ryu karate. At first it appears to contain only blocks, kicks, and punches. After you really get into it, you realize that there are many standing grappling motions contained within, that include locks, throws, take downs, chokes, fighting in the clinch. We are evn starting to discover that there are also some ground techniques in there, and after doing some research, I have found that many of the masters that formed their own style also trained a form of Okinawin wrestling called Tegumi, so it makes sense that some of it translated over into the forms.

TKD is actually very much influenced by karate, and after watching the forms there are many grappling techniques within it also. Unfortunatly your average McDojo teacher is not going to know them. So people do not have the patients to learn everything about their style, so MMA becomes a good alternative.

There is nothing wrong with training MMA, because the training is tough, and I respect anybody who really trains it, but if you study your style in depth, you might find it contains everything you need.

Edit for Nat- I did not get MMA from ninjitsu, however the fact she is training in two styles now means she is training MMA. MMA can be any two styles combined.

Answer 8

I have been doing aikido for 10 years, and about 1.5 years ago decided to pick up capoeira.  Both arts couldn't be any more different.  Personally my experience in martial art greatly benefitted me.  any art stresses such basic pillars as stance, balance, timing and others.  If you understand the basics of that you can basically transfer that knowledge on whatever new art you are learning.

Answer 9

Yes and like you two very different arts. Ninjutsu is more of an internal art and Taekwando is less so particularly below second Dan. You have to make a conscious effort to bring an empty cup to every class. Pretend you know nothing. I am taking Wing Chun Kung Fu now after years of Taekwando. I find myself wanting to attack everything that comes into my "zone" rather than redirecting and attacking the source.

I have to be careful during drills not to revert and mess up everything.LOL  It is good sometimes for the Wing Chun students to be exposed to another style though. Just as the Wing Chun I'm learning has opened up the Taekwando even more for me.

Hang in there the more you learn the better. Try to stay with one art till you really understand it.

Good luck.

Answer 10

I'm learning at least six diffenrt styles, What I do is practice one when I get the chance so that I remember how to cause the other five are differnt an harder an I find it easier by useing a disipline I already learned.

Answer 11

Where did Katana get MMA from ninjutsu?

I have done a couple of different styles over the years. It IS difficult to separate the ideologies of the different arts to begin with, but you will find that the more research into tradition and theory you do, the more you understand the differences and the easier you find it is to train in them.

Best of luck to you!