Hanzou
Grandmaster
Thats whats called an appeal to incredulity,
So i ask again, what benifit does being in sync in a kata give you for actual fighting and what reward did the kata folk in the vid get
In synch means that you're all doing the techniques and the movements correctly. When you're not in synch, that means that someone in the group is not doing the techniques and movements correctly. Which is why I also mentioned the technique being off. If you're not doing the techniques correctly, you're wasting your time. If a school is okay with kata being sloppy and their students being too lazy to do technique correctly, that's a sign of more serious problems with the instruction itself, and yes that can trickle down to fighting ability. Again, if an instructor is letting their black belts do sloppy kata, then it isn't too much of a stretch to believe that he's okay with everything else being sloppy as well.
Considering that almost all of the people in those videos were out of synch indicates that they were almost all doing things incorrectly. And again, these students are black belts, not novices.
You havent made the reward thing up as well have you?
You don't consider earning a black belt a reward for years of dedication and skill attainment in your art of choice?
Interesting.