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[kenshinkan]

Hi guys Im new here and was wondering if taking private lessons twice a month for only and hour a lesson would help get the basics down? Right now I train in shorinryu and I just wanted get some training with the knife and stick...And at 40$ a lesson I cant afford to do both...

[kenshinkan]

Ok does anyone train in the Dallas,Texas area? I would like to learn this style...

[odalisay]

Welcome to the forum. Here is a link to a list of instructors recognized by Grand Tuhon Gaje. GL!

http://www.pt-go.com/training_instructors.asp

[kenshinkan]

Thanks odalisay..

[odalisay]

Thanks odalisay..


Yeah... No problem. Your lucky cause Maginoo-Mandala Tim Waid is in Dallas! Have fun!

[equilibrium]

Doesn't Shorinryu have it's own weapons?

[blindside]

Hi guys Im new here and was wondering if taking private lessons twice a month for only and hour a lesson would help get the basics down? Right now I train in shorinryu and I just wanted get some training with the knife and stick...And at 40$ a lesson I cant afford to do both...

You have to understand that you don't just "get some training with the knife and stick." Good weapon based curricullums are whole artforms in themselves. Also realize that many of the basics between what you learn in Shorin-ryu and an FMA (or Pekiti in a particular) are going to be different, can you as a student reconcile those differences? Honestly, many people can't, or can't do it well. You can't go into a new system thinking "I'll do this two hours a month," how would you or your instructor react if a fencer told you "I wanted to learn to punch and kick, is two hours a month enough?"

If you want to learn a new art, you have to put sufficient time and dedication to it to learn it well. In addition, FMAs are not good solo arts, you really need to have a training partner to work drills with, solo training only gets you a very short distance.

Lamont

[blindside]

Why is everything on this thread underlined?

[arnisador]

Doesn't Shorinryu have it's own weapons?

Usually at least the bo and sai, I think.

[arnisador]

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[GrandTuhon Leo T Gaje Jr]

Dallas is the GHQ of Pekiti-Tirsia Global organization PTGO. We have excellent instructors in Dallas . Mandala Timothy Waid lives in Dallas his email is Tim.Waid@pt-go.com or open the Pekiti-Tirsia Global web site and you can get all the infos.

GT. Gaje