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Originally Posted by aku aku
So forms and fighting do look different?
Sorry to be difficult, I think the point of my question might have been misunderstood.
I'm not thinking of your mentality or how forms are used or what you should be thinking about, I'm just wondering; Do the moves in forms resemble the actual application?
When a kickboxer punches or kicks a heavy bag, it looks a lot like how he uses it in the ring. When a boxer does drills with the focus mitts or shadow boxes, he moves pretty much the same way he would move in the ring. When a kung fu person does the stances, kicks and punches in his forms; does it look similar to sparring and fighting?
I know that there are kung fu systems that make a point of practicing the same way they fight but I get the impression that this isn't universal and I'm wondering what is the reason for possibly doing something one way in a form and doing it a different way in application.
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You are not doing stuff differently. I don't think you understand what people are saying. When you do a kung fu punch, it should look like a kung fu punch in terms of delivery just like in your forms. When you do a kung fu kick, it should look like the kicks in your forms. But due to the choatic nature of fights, your punches won't match up perfectly with what you do in fights. It is that simple. The limiting factor of forms is that it is assuming you can perform all the forms all the time. It might not be that way.