There are many things in forms you are NOT going to do in real life.
They cant be used anyway, so again dont worry about it. You dont do stances when you spar either, are you saying we shouldnt learn them?
That is something else I don't understand. You should do in real life what you practice in forms. Otherwise it's not a martial art, its just throwing your arms and legs in the air. A small example would be when your lined up toe-to-toe with your opponent and he leaps in the air to try to nail you with a backfist to the head, you shuffle in with a headblock and a tag him in the ribs with a reverse punch. You did not perform a sine-wive. You slid in and you were in a front stance for your counter and attack. The next time you line up toe-to-toe, your opponent rushes in with a side kick, you shuffle back into a back stance blocking with an arbcheechee, then retaliating with a rear leg roundhouse to the gut as his leg is falling back to the ground. These are minor examples but these are moves that you do perform in kata's. I guess the thing is, when I do compete I do perform my technique just like I do in the forms. Perhaps I'm an exception, but I do have several trophies, so it's not that my technique doesn't work.
Dont shoot the messenger, its the student that cant do it the right way, out of observation I would say most people dont really start getting it kinda down right until they are 3rd degrees. Why? because people over-look it.
I don't understand this either. I would think that it would be foundational to every other technique that is performed. How can it be overlooked. If it's so important how can an instructor let a student andvance without learning the technique. I realize there are a few people who are limited by their physical abillity and they should be an exception. But how can you teach something foundational and overlook it. If it's gonna be taught the instructors should know how to do this before teaching it the wrong way. Once you learn something a certain way it's hard to (possible but hard) to tear apart and rebuild it, especially when it's been practiced a certain way over and over and over again. I would assume in most cases years. Again, this is why we do forms. You pracitce them so much that the movements become an instinct. You don't need to think about doing it, you just do it. If you do it enough, you will spar the way you pracitice your technique in forms.
Its not always the same, takes years of practice. When you get it (at least sorta) you appreciate it alot more.
How can you get it "at least sorta?" If you don't do it right, is it worth doing? Kinda like excerising, if you do the excersize wrong, your doing it for nothing. And how can someone be satisfied with sorta, except, perhaps for those who are physically limited.
I guess, I'm asking for something more concrete. I've been given these same reasons before. But I have not observed these things you describe to me. Maybe I'm too dense, and am looking at the wrong things. Or maybe my ego is telling me there's no other way than my way, but believe me, if there is a greater benefit to this I would want to learn it. But so far I have not been convinced of it.
