Nobody has to try xx.000 styles because they do not differ that much.
But a reasonable question would be to ask: Why are there so many styles?
My opinion/answer: Apart from all political reasons - all those who founded them had learned a certain structure, certain principles, but to achieve the maximum of their abilities it made more sense to change the style to fit them and not vice versa. This is not accepted in the classical styles so they founded new styles.
So what do we learn from this: Some of us obviously don't learn anything. Some of us learn that based on certain methods or styles we can achieve a certain structure, but to become really good we have to alter and add new things to fit our personal needs.
I see people do that all the time and use excuses for still claiming they are traditionalists - and I see people claim they were doing JKD or other non-classical stuff and still accept dogmatism like they were doing classical martial arts.
And vice versa.
It is really strange.
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Sean J
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