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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LGodamus" data-source="post: 576301" data-attributes="member: 1039">I agree with takyris one one of his two major points...Mostly that people fool themselves on what they want...they say they want self defense or combat effectiveness but what they really want is what they see in van damme movies . On the part about spreading yourself between two arts I believe Tak is partly right ,but if you take an art like taekwon do and then add something like chin na or or any combination of forms you are screwing yourself...If your art is a stand up fighting art and you just supplement that with a grappling art or vice versa you are not doing yourself anygood. The two were not designed to go hand in hand and will not mesh well. You should dedicate yourself to the art and the teacher that fit you and stick with it.  For example : You are a kicking style fighter and you try to learn to wrestle by training in that also......you have taken away time you could have devoted to your original art to become a mediocre grappler. Now you arent as good at your original art as you could have been and are not good enough as a grappler to be another grappler if it comes down to it...in short you have wasted your time. Now if you had stuck with your original art you could have had your teacher point out your first styles grappling weakness and how to avoid  playing into them........</blockquote>