Only when your art is so ingrained into your subconscious that when you "freak out" only your style comes out is when you are beginning to master it.

If you study monkey or tiger or hsing yi you respond like that style. Without thought...it just happens.

If you don't...and respond the same as you have before training...you and your art have not become one yet.

Few people in modern times are willing to put in the time to truly become their art.

This is why the decline of kung fu has happened. It's not the art that's defective it's the practioners that only practice 2-3 times a week for fun. Even 2 hours a day every day is pale to the masters of old dedicating 8 hours to their practice daily.