Weapon Style Mastery (Style, Weapon Mastery)
You can combine multiple fighting styles together.
Prerequisites: Any two style feats from different styles, BAB +6, weapon training class feature with a melee weapon.
Benefit: Choose one weapon style (a style feat that lists Weapon Focus as a prerequisite) that you have. You can have the chosen style and a second style active at once. Starting a stance provided by a style feat is still a swift action, but you can assume both the chosen weapon style’s stance and another style’s stance simultaneously using this action. This ability doesn’t stack with other abilities that allow you to have multiple styles active at the same time.
Normal: You can have only one style active at once.Martial Focus (Combat)
You have honed your skills with a group of related weapons.
Prerequisite: BAB +5.
Benefit: 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.
The wording of Weapon Style Mastery's prerequisites seem to indicate that it was intended to only be used with melee weapons. I'd even suggest that, as written, it means that a fighter (or other class that actually gets weapon training) wouldn't be able to combine, for example, Startoss and Unfolding Wind with a Chakram (or other non-melee thrown weapon). But is there anything stopping another class from doing so? Say, a hurler barbarian for example?
nope, no problem.
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A fighter wouldn't have a problem either. Let's say you took weapon training (thrown). You have weapon training in Chakrams(a ranged weapon), and Weapon Training in Spears(a melee weapon). The prerequisite is met and you can use the Startoss style and Unfolding Wind with any weapon in the Thrown group.
Hmmm. Good point Imbicatus. I guess it's just projectile weapons that are being edges out of the feat then.
A fighter could also take Martial Focus and not need to take Weapon Training in a melee weapon, although that seems unfairly taxing on a weapon style that's already incredibly feat-intensive.