If you could

[Xue Sheng]

If you could start over in your MA training, with a clean slate, would you do it?

Could be the same style could be different, your choice.

Of late I have been thinking I would like to start over, from the beginning with taijiquan. Just go back to the beginning and go from there.

 

[SENC-33]

If you have been training for a long time look for an avenue to increase the effectiveness of your core. This is what I did when I threw Systema and Silat into my previous 25+ years of training. Of course I do this on my own now instead of training in someone else establishment.

 

[sfs982000]

If I could start over with a clean slate I think I would've liked to have studied Kenpo. Was not and still isn't offered anywhere near me.

 

[oftheherd1]

If you could start over in your MA training, with a clean slate, would you do it?

Could be the same style could be different, your choice.

Of late I have been thinking I would like to start over, from the beginning with taijiquan. Just go back to the beginning and go from there.

I do not regret my brief foray into TKD under Jhoon Rhee. I would not wish to have studied and been belted in any other art than Hapkido. I think an art such as TKD or other striking art is a good thing to have studied before studying an art such as Hapkido.

I do wish I had begun studies earlier.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

I do not regret my brief foray into TKD under Jhoon Rhee.

Did you learn from him in Austin, Texas?

 

[Cirdan]

No, I wouldn`t start over. Looking back I am very happy with my choise of styles and teachers.

I did try Kobudo for a half year before quitting, something I might wish undone and spent time spent on an other art.. however a little knowledge of the sword can be certainly benefit one`s understanding of JuJitsu and some aspects of Karate so I don`t really regret it.

 

[K-man]

I would certainly have started a lot earlier but I probably wouldn't have been able to train the way I do now because it just wasn't available in this country back 40 to 50 years ago. So I would probably have trained the same style, just a lot sooner.
:asian:

 

[oftheherd1]

Did you learn from him in Austin, Texas?

No, in his Washington, DC location at Connecticut and S. He had not yet expanded his business nor changed to his own style of TKD.

 

[jwright11]

A Great thanks to all your comments. I think I am also take benefit from this...:readrules

 

[MJS]

If you could start over in your MA training, with a clean slate, would you do it?

Could be the same style could be different, your choice.

Of late I have been thinking I would like to start over, from the beginning with taijiquan. Just go back to the beginning and go from there.

Yes! While I feel that I'm fortuante and blessed to have met certain people thru my Kenpo training, if I could do it all over again, I would've started right with Kyokushin.

 

[geezer]

It's been such an interesting journey, that if I were to go back in time, I wouldn't change styles. Each art I studied fit who and what I was at that time, and helped me grow. So, no regrets.

On the other hand, if I were physically 20 or 25 years old again, I'd definitely want of get into a grappling art like BJJ. At 58 with a bad back, knees and ankles, that's not an option any more.

 

[Instructor]

So many happy memories there, I don't think I would change a thing.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

I have to agree with Instructor that I would not change a thing.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I have been thinking that to go back and start again with a clean slate would get me right back where I am, not that I'm complaining because I am not.

To give up what I know to do that would be to much, however to be able to start over from where I am, knowing the right way from the wrong, knowing the styles to pursue, would be the only way to do this...from a very young age.....basically this becomes a youth is wasted on the young kind of thing... damn I'm old :uhyeah: