Cross Training: How Many Fighting Styles Should I Learn?

People often asking me these:

- "How can you learn so many martial arts without overtraining?"

- "How many fighting styles should i learn?"

First, mastering 1 fighting style is already enough.

But if you wanna try cross training so much. Let me give you some advice:

1. You Must Mastering 1 Fighting style First

You must mastering 1 fighting style first before doing cross training. If you master 1 fighting style, then learning other fighting style will easier like playing a game (because you already know the basic principe of martial art training right?).

Martial art training is like cooking course: After you mastering how to make 1 menu then you can learn to cooking other menus easier, after you mastering 1 fighting style then you can learn other fighting styles easier.

2. Never Train 2-3 Different Fighting Styles In Same Training Period

Never joining / training at 2-3 dojos in same time to avoid overtraining problems. Like unfocus, confusion, fatique and injury.

Even real MMA champions learned their fighting techniques one by one for years focusly and not learned those all at once in one day forcefully. For examples:

- After mastering Karate, Lyoto Machida learned Brazilian Jujutsu.

- After mastering Kickboxing, Bas Rutten learned Catch Wrestling.

- After mastering Brazilian Jujutsu, Nick Diaz learned Boxing.