Quote Originally Posted by xinyidizi View Post
I respect all of my teachers and my shifu but if I want to learn another style in depth then I think baishi is the only way as I have seen many shifus who would just leave their outdoor students with a bunch of forms without teaching them any further which probably is one of the reasons lots of practical things were lost in history. So is their any way around this code so that I can learn another style in depth without being dishonest about my past?
Di Guoyong, wasn't he an inner door student of both Zhao Zhong and Li Ziming? Alot of teachers learned from multiple people. Liu Jingru, Liu Yunqiao, Ma Chuanxu, ( I could make a loong list) just to name a few. Actually, if you get your shifu's permission I don't think it's such a big deal, especially nowadays. I think that the teacher you wanna learn from and carry on his teachings the most is your shifu, everyone else is your laoshi.

Then again Im not anyones tudi, I'm barely a student myself so what do I know??