depends where you go. every school is different and come from different backgrounds. its literally like shopping for a house or car. sometimes it looks ugly on the outside but inside its solid or sometimes it looks really cool but has a shitty foundation.
Do you want to throw awesome spinny kicks. Or do you want to learn how to defend yourself. Both sets of goals will be used to get yourself in shape i am guessing.
If you wanna learn spinny kicks just mimick from kung fu movies. Training in any MA is hard work and a huge time commitment lol. If you wanna learn how to beat people down search out a krav maga class, if you got a few years for the MA then pick up a karate style. Either way if you wanna learn some cheap tricks cheap out youtube videos and join a gym and get your ass in shape enough for it.
Knowing what you wanna do and acheive from it is half the battle.
Seriously though when you get flagged for trying to advise people to stay away from spinny kicks as a center piece to their martial art training on a MA thread I have to go to old faithful on that shit…
A strong foundation in what? Guys self teach themselve backflips from youtube, hell Evan Tanner self taught fighting from books to lift a UFC title. What spinny shit are you talking about? A Tatsumaki?
no but am certainly getting the impression you may in fact be, your trying to say learning a spin kick is impossible by self teaching methods, which is bullshit, my original post was that it shouldnt be something a student from the offset goes off to learn if hes going into MA but you started your troll bullshit and am just asking what your take on it is.
Not me, studied wado ryu karate for 15 years, just finding it amusing this maxx has such a hardon over somebody saving time learning fancy shit on their own time.