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I had a discussion not to long ago with a few black belts (all different styles one TKD, another Shotokan, some others) about learning from books and videos. They all said that you can not learn a martial art from a book or video, i of course, disagreed, but didn’t really make enough point to make them think otherwise… but now i was wondering what do you guys think ? My point to the discussion is this, are we stupid ? are we not the most intelligent mammal we know of? we are quite capable of learning anything from a book or video, especially if your dedicated and willing, of course it doesn’t hurt to have a few private lessons on proper form of the basic techniques, but that too can be learned from a book, you can pretty much tell if your doing something proper if it has a natural feel, and you feel strong and stable… plus, if you have visual aids in the books(which are most definitely needed if learning from a book) and you have a body size mirror, you can easily correct yourself… what do you all think?
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