Re: MT: comparing kenpo...
I switched to my current curriculum for 2 main reasons.
1) I didn't have time to practice 3 hours a day which is how long it took to review the basic curriculum I was studying and because of that, I wasn't giving the curriculum the attention it deserved as my focus was actually to get through it all. On a personal level I found that trying to keep up with so much material resulted in things such as my basics suffering.
2) My prior curriculum was full of redundant material and I felt it would be more productive to study new material instead of rehashing the same lesson over and over when I alrady "got it" the first time around. Being forced to "learn" a new technique that was obviously an extension of another one lost my interest very quickly. At the risk of sounding immodest, I'm quite intelligent and need more stimulation. I prefer to apply the principles I've learned on my own and forumlate my own extensions to test out and have fun with in the classroom environment.
"It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." – Charles A. Beard