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Do both! You need knowledge so that you have something to put into your structure. Action is extremely important as well. No such thing as knowing too much but there certainly is not practicing enough.
There is such thing as knowing too much, we call them "KJ's". They are the guys that read the books but don't put them too practise. And trust me, they are with more than the actual guys that put theory to practise.
I still keep saying what I did - Don't read too much ebooks. It will drastictly change you and you will start overthinking & overanalysing way to much.
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Here is my final word on this discussion. I guess we will have to disagree but here is my statement to any posts that suggest that there is such a thing as too much knowledge.
I am a jiu-jitsu buff and a wellness/goal achievement Coach so I will use BJJ as the example.
My game in BJJ is simple (Because I am only a blue belt, plenty of time to get complicated later), no matter where I am I know that I am trying to get to side control. I want to get to side control for the simple reason that I submit someone and win the game (think fclose kclose #close) 80% from there. No matter where I am I have that position as a goal (think of your best gambit as your target position).
Now because there are literally infinite possibilities for body positions that I can end up in (limitless directions your social interaction can take) I am constantly running into "what ifs" that throw me off of my game because I haven't acquired the proper technique or counter (think of routines, dhv stories, negs etc.) to disarm them.
So in my pursuit of the perfect BJJ game (the perfect seduction) it is imperative that I arm myself with all the tools that I can. I have learned 1000s of techniques. This does not however mean that all of them are added into my game for achieving side control (your best gambit) and then ultimately submitting (closing).
The basics are the basics for a very good reason... they work best, but if there weren't situations that called for more complicated techniques then they would never have been invented. Most of the time the situation calls for a solid use of the basics in BJJ, nothing too fancy. If you try something that is too fancy for a given situation you will probably end up in a worse position than where you started.
My game is pretty basic in BJJ... because I am a BLUE BELT!!! If I want to move up in ranks and eventually acquire the perfect jiu-jitsu game then I am going to adjust and practice when the "what ifs" dictate that I use something more complicated. Your techniques are designed to solve problems. Occam's Razor says it all
"the simplest explanation (or solution) is most likely the correct (or best) one".
Crazy long analogy but it covers my thoughts. No such thing as too much knowledge. Definitely such a thing as trying to use more knowledge than you need to solve a problem. Knowledge doesn't do dick if you don't put it into action and use the pieces in the proper place in any game (this is so obvious that I almost didn't write).
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