It all depends on what you're really trying to get out of it. I dorked around with some stuff on my own and did well enough to exercise and get a general feel for what was going on through trial and error. Being "non-competative" and without having a real measuring stick to say if you learned something or not makes it pretty hard to fail when you get down to it.
If you want to use it for something other than personal satisfaction, you're almost certainly going to need some sort of legitimate instruction. There's just too many nuances that you "need" to know in order to learn the skill in what ever discipline that you're trying to learn.
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