"A five minute round in the ring or on the mats will often teach you more about yourself than a lifetime of solo forms or cooperative, non full-contact training.”
The way that I look at this is you have to
- "develop" your skill from partner drill.
- "test" your skill from sparring/wrestling.
If you have never trained "hip throw", you can wrestle for the rest of your life, you still won't be able to apply "hip throw" in wrestling.
Your thought?