That's what I came away with tonight. I taped myself doing some forms (I haven't watched myself on tape doing a form in a very long time). It was an eye-opener. My focus was undisciplined, and my stances were too high. Moves I thought I was doing well had less extension than I could have imagined. I was sloppy, too fast and just generally bad. It has motivated me somewhat in that I realized I was getting complacent and need to work much harder at doing the little things better.

It's not the system. It's not the teachers (it was my teacher's idea to film me so I could see things form myself). It's me, and I have a lot of work to do.