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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darius101" data-source="post: 851050" data-attributes="member: 9466">Skill is important. Technique for techniques sake will get you killed or at the very least hurt unless your very lucky. Street fighting is a mix of survival and using what you have learned in an intelligent way. Sometimes you must lose a fight or two before you learn that. Blindly going into any fight, be it street or sanctioned event, is not a smart way to do anything.                Experience is the best master and the hardest teacher. When we asked Sensei what the most powerful weapon in the dojo was he responded with a smile and pointed to the newest student. That which is unexpected is the best weapon. If you learn to play by rules, those rules can be used against you. I think that is something you guys have been trying to say in your own way you just complicated it a little. I can even equate rules as being Kata in some styles. There are people who missed the point of why Kata are there and what purpose they serve. Kata was created to tech beginers a style. Kata later became a way to create a foundatuion on which you can better build your skills when you are not in class. Kata or forms were also used to hide many techniques and it took a teacher to interpret what knowledge you already had. I believe these basic thoughts were already stated earlier in this thread...good work again guys. The history of all Martial Ways is facinating and can fill many many volumes indeed. In china there are well over 2500 seperate family styles. These styles are similar but at the same time quite distinguishable from each other.  People like to put their thumb print on things and that is part of why there are so many different styles. Adaptablility is another reason. The debate about what style is better is a fools errand. What do I mean by that?  Well all styles are good and have something good within them. There are no styles themselves which are better or worse than others. They are just styles, like paintings there are a thousand different ways to create the same thing, It is the artist that really makes the difference.My advice, as it has been for the last three threads, is to examine each school and make a decision based on what you want to get out of the class. All martial arts will teach you to defend yourself, eventually. I am glad you found a style you liked you just had some bad luck is all. Is there a way you and maybe one or two other students from your old school could still train together?  That may be beneficial and a way to Honor your teacher in some small way. I have rambled way to much once again, Later, DariusP.S. Remember there is always someone out there bigger and badder than yourself. If you look for a reputation of some sort there will be people willing to take you on for the prestige of beating or at the very least just fighting against you.  Never underestimate an opponent...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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