Originally Posted by
RenDaHai
And a soldier in training is not even close to a soldier in a real firefight. But that real firefight is impossible to replicate in training.
Indeed, Intent and Instinct. They come from the two opposite aspects of the mind. It plays the largest of all roles in combat, and that is why it staggers me that so few people try to take this into account when training. Everyone seems to assume that you will always be in the same emotional state (instinctual) and have the same intent in every fight. But I have had different fights. And when you are afraid and do not know what your goal is it is very different from when you are angry and know exactly your purpose. In these two different situations you cannot fight in the same way and it is a mistake to try.
And in Shaolin I can be certain of that intention. And it far exceeds the violent application. But rather, to learn the form, to do the movement properly in the first place one must understand and practice its application.
I think maybe you and I have it opposite ways around. You are seeing form as a way to learning the application, I see good application as a way to learning the form.