Horse puckey.
When they happen to be right.Bunkai and himitsu are things that, at least how they relate to J/OMA, tend to be used as the "uber secret" to prove one has the "real" MA.
No, they're not.Sure the majority of down blocks are actually hammer fist strikes.
That is a process that is something your SiFu is supposed to teach you.it makes sense, but I still think that, more often than not, we are grasping at straws when it comes to trying to figure out what a moves really means in a form.
At first you learn applications & their derivation by rote.
SEEing how they are derived is supposed to teach you to properly derive applications on your own.... eventually.
I strongly disagree with that statement.I mean, how m any times does a specific move from a form have a better application VS a certain attack than just a basic counter?
Not very often.
In fact, I think it is just the opposite.