Originally Posted by
Joshua Jarboe
I think that's a bit of a loaded question and that makes it complicated. Your use of the word "overlook" makes it a loaded question. It's never ok to overlook anything. It's like asking "Is it ok to drink too much soda?" Of course not. Too much is too much.
I think there needs to be a balance. For me, I can drill something and one month later, I have forgotten it. To really learn a technique, I have to learn the move, put it in my game and get reps rolling. The rolling reps are critical to maintaining the technique in my brain.
Eesh, you wanna name names?
Speaking strictly hypothetically, maintaining the balance between drilling and rolling is probably hard. Different schools, different instructors, they do it differently or we wouldn't be talking about it. I'm a little white belt, once I choose an instructor to teach me, it is less my place to criticize their teaching and more my place to be thinking "is this the best place for me?" There's a difference there. One is personal and humble and one is broad and could be arrogant (for me, speaking as a white belt).
Smells like drama in here. :(
I'd rather do more rolling than what I'm doing. I'm humbly trying to accept that my amazing professors know how to run a class with white belts, blue belts and purple belts better than I do. :)