Sometime to think about.

I personally believe that we all need to obtain traditional based skills.. I also believe that we also need to evolve as students to gain the most out of all the skills we have and will gain.

Here's my thoughts on tradition and modern training skills.

Tradition gives us our firmly grounded base from which we can rely upon. When we learn new skills our traditional skills evolve and if we stay true to our training, our traditional skills become even more stronger than before.
Just because we are learning new skills, it doesn't mean we stop practicing our traditional skills.. our new skills fall to pieces without our traditional grounding.
In time those new skills we just learnt will also become part of our traditional skills and thus a cycle is created where tradition does evolve.

All you really have to think about is.. what does the word tradition really mean?
When those skills were first taught, the weren't traditional.. they were evolutional and new.
And after being taught to the masses over many many years, being passed from father and mother to son and daughter over the generations a new concept was formed. And they called those skills, "Traditional". In turn we also call those taught skills traditional.

My point being.. tradition does not stand still. After all they were created to give us a means to move forward!