What to you feel about the idea of mixing different martial arts styles?
You have to be careful with mixing styles. Sometimes it can be beneficial and sometimes not. It’s important to have a strong base and foundation. Once you have this, it is not that necessary to incorporate many other things. You may look for some specific elements that help you to improve what you have, but you don’t necessarily have to add more and more just for the sake of adding. If a martial art system is used for fighting then there’s not too much to be added – if you do anything, I think “integrating” would be a better term. As I said, I don’t really believe in studying many different styles of martial arts and putting them together to create a new system. Sometimes martial artists do this because they don’t think what they have is truly useful. It’s important to notice that a technique may look not effective at first sight, but after further analyses you may find out that a slight adjustment in the angle will make the difference. Sometimes a couple of inches in the body angle wi
