Wait a minute...
Originally Posted by
tattooedmonk
So you think forms have NOTHING to do with fighting or how to learn how to fight??
Originally Posted by
cjurakpt
minimal to not at all
Let me get this straight. You (cjurakpt) and others have spent an ungodly amount of thread space lecturing SD people about how their forms aren't true CMA, don't have the right flavor, etc., etc. and you don't even think forms matter when learning to fight?
WTF, dude? What in the h3ll does it matter then? If no one practicing forms regularly is providing themselves any significant martial benefit, regardless of the 'flavor' of the forms they're doing, why all the emotion and energy?
If forms are all worthless as a way to learn to fight (which, last time I checked, is one of the main purposes of most martial arts), then what does it matter if my forms look a little more 'karate-like' or 'kempo-like' than yours?
You guys are like a bunch of little old church ladies, gossiping about the sins of all the other women in church while blissfully ignoring your own faults, and you've decided Shaolin-Do is the church wh0re.
But make sure you forget about all the little indiscretions in your past (or the past of your art) while you're lecturing the wh0re about her behavior, right?
Meanwhile, I'll be looking for God in this box of Cheerios - Crushing Fist