Experience Is The Best Teacher

How do you do if what you learn really works? How do you know that what is done in practice is effective? Well, the only way for you to know is to go and do it. Theory is good for learning principles, but to apply them you have to do it. Whether a job or a sport, you learn theory and then you do the practical. In fighting you learn your basics, then you do drills. Next comes sparring. You feel good about all that, but you won't really know if it works until you use it in an all out match. You have to get that real life experience to know that it works.