Should you get your instructors permission to train at another style/school?

[eXcessiveForce]

The problem comes with limits on time.

You can be there or here. So if you are there you are not here. If you are not here you miss what is covered today. And then I must reteach the same thing on another day.

Or both places have events the same day. Which one do you choose.

The bible says a man cannot serve to masters. Because at some point you must choose between them. This causes the problem. If worked out in advance it's not a big deal but if it blind sides an instructor it can turn into one.

also when you come in and talk about how great or terrible the other class is. Now the instructor has to deal with it. Or you get the ones that say, but that's not how they teach it over there, they do this.

Teach people from other systems and you will have this happen a lot. I was taught this. And while sometimes this can lead to meaningful training and discussion.

I was once told by a older female student that in her self defense course they told her to get UNDER her car and what I was teaching was nothing like what they told her. I took that as a compliment but it was rather distracting and disprespectful on her part to interupt my class with her story about some idiot teaching "self destruction"

[ryanhall]

EF,

I don't have a 'master.' I go where the training is. I am friends with my instructor and other people I work out with at SBG, but that doesn't mean that training with Renzo a couple blocks down would be somehow detrimental, disrespectful, or a form of betrayal. If an instructor is confident in what they teach, they would welcome your interest in training with other people. If the only people you work out with are those at your club, you will be hampering your progression/development.

If you interrupt class with constant 'but there they told us' questions, I can see that being annoying. However, that is a person-to-person issue, and is hardly a characteristic of eveyone who crosstrains or works out at a couple clubs/gyms. If your instructor can't answer questions or won't explain why they do things the way they do, then they shouldn't be teaching (though you should ask the questions on your own time, not the class').

My instructor knows that I train at a couple places when I'm home because I tell him. I let him know how I do, and I bring back some cool stuff if I see any. If I didn't mention it to him, however, and he did find out on his own, I don't see any reason why he would/should be annoyed.