Originally Posted by
Black Jack II
The question to really ask is what do you consider to be the litmus test for a application in your form to be applicable in fighting.
What is your proactive decision making method...?
Is the course of action used to analyze the application based just on the systems age, that because it is old then somehow it must be good, are you basing it on your teachers assumed fighting ability and not your own, or is the reasoning based on current and relevant testing?
I think to many people make their decision on what works and what may not work based often on romantic crushes and not objective thinking.
Goooooaaaaalllll!!!!
I've seen some crazy stuff come out of forms that win more on someones creativity than actually working. I find better applications for movements now that I've dropped doing kata and instead spending more time working live.
I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows
The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.
Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.
DM
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