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| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:15 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | ... Rather, a depth-first strategy explores all aspects of that thing they teach you. So there might be 20 ways to get a guillotine choke. In a breadth-first strategy you might learn 2 ways for white belt one stripe, while learning a dozen other techniques besides the guillotine. In a depth-first strategy, you learn all 20 ways before moving on to the next technique. As for learning, however, it's all the same. It's just stuff that you repeat. Whether it's 20 variations of the guillotine or 20 completely different techniques. It's 20 things. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:11 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | ... other things that you need to practice in order to just retain your skill level in those things. Practicing just the stuff you're learning in class right now necessarily means you're not practicing the stuff you learned a year ago. When you totally neglect something, it will deteriorate. There's a bare minimum amount of practice you need to retain it over the long term... This can be applied to either a depth-first or a breadth-first strategy. It's just about how you can optimally learn and retain what you learn. A depth-first strategy would not just teach you something and repeat it... | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:02 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | Over-practicing means practicing more than you need to in order to retain what you already have or get better. There are diminishing returns to repeating something over and over again, basically. Doing something 1000 times may be no better, or nearly no better, than doing it 100 times. This even applies to when you have a teacher there giving you correction and feedback as you go, because it often takes down-time and sleep to allow your brain to make the connections that it needs to. Sleep and down-time is integral to learning. But beyond that, what over-practicing does is to crowd out... | |
| Nov 1, 2015 at 15:28 | comment | added | mattm♦ | Good answer overall. Could you clarify what you mean by serious students overpracticing? When they practice one technique and neglect other things, isn't that just practice in depth? How much time does the serious student you have in mind practice? | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 4:34 | history | answered | Steve Weigand | CC BY-SA 3.0 |