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Originally Posted by Mephariel
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.
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So the forms represent the ideal which you may or may not achieve?
I had a video on full contact choy li fut and it didn't look at all like the choy li fut I was exposed to, it looked more like funny muay thai.
I do know that sometimes certain moves are exaggerated to help the learning process. I talked to a karate guy before who showed me a basic block and explained that they practice it that way but in sparring they would use a shorter, quicker version of it. I can respect that but it seems to me that, at some point, you need to start practicing the shorter quicker version if you really want to be able to use it.