Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
Trying to interpret forms is tricky at best and is based mostly on assumption or even presumption....
Horse puckey.


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.
When they happen to be right.


Sure the majority of down blocks are actually hammer fist strikes.
No, they're not.


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.
That is a process that is something your SiFu is supposed to teach you.
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 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.
I strongly disagree with that statement.
In fact, I think it is just the opposite.