Advanced Weapon Training question

[Trojan Flumph]

Even though I'm pretty sure it's a no, I might as well get some opinions... SO

Martial Focus:

Benefit(s): Choose one fighter weapon group. While wielding a weapon from this group with which you are proficient, you gain a +1 bonus on damage rolls.

Special: The Martial Focus feat counts as the weapon training class feature with the chosen fighter weapon group for the purpose of weapon mastery feat prerequisites and what weapons you can use with weapon mastery feats.

Advanced Weapon Training:

Benefit(s): Select one advanced weapon training option, applying it to one fighter weapon group you have already selected with the weapon training class feature.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, but at most once per 5 fighter levels.

Let's say you're Magus. You've hit level 7 and acquired a BaB of 5+ and you now qualify for Martial Focus. At level 8 your Fighter Training now counts you as a 5th level fighter for feats. You now have meet the prerequisite for the Advanced Weapon Training feat... but can you benefit from it since you haven't technically selected a weapon group WITH Weapon Training?

Now the Martial Focus feat requires you to pick a weapon group from Fighter and that same feat allows you count as have the Weapon Training feature... is that enough to apply AWT to the group selected?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

1) No, since... what you said.

2) Sadly, AWT is not itself a weapon mastery feat, which is the only kind that MF helps with, so no.

[Ashram]

Basically the only way to qualify for it is to go myrmidarch magus.

[dragonhunterq]

Echoing Fuzzy Wuzzy.
1) You have highlighted the issue.
2) No, because AWT is not a weapon mastery feat.

Martial Focus wrote:

Martial Focus feat counts as the weapon training class feature ...for the purpose of weapon mastery feat prerequisites and what weapons you can use with weapon mastery feats.

[DarkAtlas89]

For Weapon Specialist, could I then retrain the feats I picked for other feats and basically use weapon specialist as a place holder for weapon focus/specialization.