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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 663747" data-attributes="member: 6469">I'm sorry.Eh, I used 'a little' fairly broadly. For instance, the little aikido I did was taught to me by a roomie I lived with for about six months and was a japanese exchange student who had studied with all those hoopy guru's back in the motherland. He showed me a few techniques and a few pressure points but that was the sum total of it. However, I also used 'a little' to describe how much ninjutsu I've done but to be fair, I trained myself at least once a week for several years in the techniques garnered from a book; I only ever viewed a session at a dojo once but thought it was so incredibly lame that I never went back. To me, a little is a broad term to describe something, in this instance, that I have no formal qualification in, and which is derived without any significant amount of tutored training.I'd agree that depth is more important than breadth and I'd agree that my formalized training was little, but to turn your D&D analogy back upon you, no amount of training is as good as real XP, and so it could be said that my arena, reality, gave me a decent whack of depth <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What style is that? I'd love to get back into it... it's always money though that stops me and in the last few years, I've just been too lazy to do any kata's or workouts. That sounds like an excellent style though. I'm not interested in the 'peace and love' philosophy of martial arts. I'm pragmatic and only put effort into things that will directly benefit me, like it sounds this style would.Lol, yes, that's pretty much what I was trying to say only said in a much more succint and clever way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What I was trying to say, in my own convoluted way, was that if the very fundamental basics, upon which the style is built, breaks down in a real world situation, then the entire style is functionally useless. I would much rather know how to gouge someones eye out with my chin than know how to do a mae-giri, kin-giri (or however you spell 'em) combo...</blockquote>

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