Quote Originally Posted by -N- View Post
Doesn't that just mean that many people have not been able to learn great techniques through forms practice alone?

That's how hippie Tie Chee got invented.

After teaching us form and it's applications, my teacher lectured us that the form is useless if we didn't train the techniques(against each other) until we owned them.
True. Usage training and forms practice should always go hand in hand. Didn't mean to imply otherwise.