Is Taiji a striking art?

[YouKnowWho]

I don't think form is any kind of "end all" indicator for what exists in a art. Some things don't lend themselves to a particular systems "style" of form, as well as others.

For instance, there are no roundhouse kicks in the traditional forms of most Kung Fu, Okinawan or Japanese Karate. All these martial arts make heavy use of roundhouse kick though.

Forms are NOT used to teach ALL the techniques of a system but simply to train, solo, certain attributes.

If roundhouse kick is your favor, and if you want to create a form for the future generation, what will be the reason that you don't want to include your roundhouse kick into your form?

Hendrik also said that "foot sweep" exists in the WC system. If it's not in those 3 WC open hand forms, wooden dummy forms, pole form, and butterfly knife form, the style founder must hide it nicely. My question is to hide it for what reason?