System is the training - an ordered to teaching to take you from knowing nothing to learning about the craft.
Style is personal expression.
Curriculum is the order in which it is taught.
Teaching methodology is the way it is taught.
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System is the training - an ordered to teaching to take you from knowing nothing to learning about the craft.
Style is personal expression.
Curriculum is the order in which it is taught.
Teaching methodology is the way it is taught.
I wonder if people recognize that the words: 'style' and 'system' are synonyms to each other when arguing the finer points of methodical pedantry.
Here's an article that came out from our camp years ago...
It gives a pretty good explanation of what a system should look like.
http://www.usadojo.com/articles/style-system.htm
The question was, is Wing Chun a system or a style. There is a difference between the two, and they do not mean the same thing. Wing Chun is a system. Plain and simple. There are many different styles of this system. Probably as many styles as there are people doing it.
This has to take the most meaningless thread of the year award.
Congratulations...:D
If it works, call it what you want. If it doesn't, it won't matter what you call it, it's still cr@p.