10 techniques? You just need one punch to rule China...
...and we all know that punch is xingyi bengquan. Didn't y'all see the ONE? ;)
OK, that was an obscure pun, but hopefully at least one of you got the chengyu reference.
On a more serious note, the notion that forms are only of value if they can be used in 'real fighting' is simply absurd. Sure, you want to have the fighting techniques, but that kind of narrow viewpoint will kill TCMA faster than anything. The greatest strength of TCMA is that it offers so much more than just those 10 techniques. There's qigong elements that have no application to combat, unless you have a broad enough perspective to include illness as a potential street enemy. Is it? Yes, I think so. There's also tons of more implicit stuff, cultural stuff, like my obscure chengyu reference above. That reference, if you understand it, really gets at the core of fighting practice. TCMA is much more than just fighting. It includes that philosophy, plus so much more. That's what all these reality/street/MMA guys tend to miss. They look only at what works in the ring. But real life doesn't happen in the ring. I'm over 40. I'm not getting in no ring (although I had a challenge offer from a kickboxer recently here, and she almost enticed me, but there was nacho cheese involved, and I know I would not have survived). OK, I better stop now....I'll come back to this after I clear my head. Nacho cheese kickboxing indeed...