The benefits of external training courses
I was going to call this entry "The importance of external training courses" but after some deliberation, I decided to replace the word 'importance' with the word 'benefits'. The reason being, if I emphasise that external training courses are important, this implies that if you are not taking part in external training courses/seminars, then you are missing an important part of your martial arts training. This is not necessarily the case. As I have said in previous blog posts, everyone has different reasons for training, everyone has different expectations and different desirable outcomes. If you are happy and content training in one style, at one club, and that satisfies your craving for knowledge, provides you with the training that suits your individual needs, and you have no desire to seek out any further learning, then external training courses/seminars are not important to you. If you have a wider interest in learning different skills, taught